{"id":22597,"date":"2023-04-18T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/?p=22597"},"modified":"2023-04-12T09:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T08:28:56","slug":"what-to-do-in-your-spare-time-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2023\/04\/18\/what-to-do-in-your-spare-time-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do in your spare time on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timetables. You either love them or hate them \u2013 whilst the majority of us know that the timetabling department aren\u2019t purposely trying to ruin our lives (it can\u2019t be an easy job creating a schedule for every<\/u><\/em> course), it can be kind of annoying if you have an early morning AND late evening class with nothing in between. Sure, you could just go home and take a nap and hope <\/em>that your alarm goes off in time, but let me try to convince you to stay on campus for just a few more hours\u2026<\/p>\n

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Pumpkin picking with a SUBU society!<\/p><\/div>\n

SUBU<\/strong> \u2013 first up, I\u2019m sure most students have heard of BU\u2019s student union. They plan some really cool activities, ranging from educational workshops and careers fairs, to painting and plant potting. If you check out their website, there\u2019s all the information about societies and volunteering with SUBU<\/a>, including a really interesting section on virtual volunteering \u2013 definitely a great thing to do in your spare time that you can add to your CV!<\/p>\n

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Free on campus activities in the SUBU building!<\/p><\/div>\n

SportBU<\/strong> – \u00a0want to try something new? Join SportBU<\/a>! The membership is much more affordable compared to other gyms and even includes unlimited access to the group fitness classes! My personal favourite is pump, but I\u2019ve also tried out Zumba, yoga and some spin classes. If you get your membership at the start of the academic year, they usually have an earlybird discount \u2013 I paid \u00a3120 for the year, but you can also pay monthly or semesterly (don\u2019t worry, they also have showers so you won\u2019t have to turn up to your final lecture all sweaty!).<\/p>\n

Languages@BU<\/strong> \u2013 an AMAZING skill to develop to add to your CV, as well as for your own personal benefit! Languages@BU<\/a> is completely free, you just select the language you want to learn and you get access to a whole range of learning material to either further develop your knowledge or learn a language completely from scratch!<\/p>\n

Campus work<\/strong> \u2013 if you want to earn a bit of extra money in between lectures and seminars, consider applying for a job on campus. You can apply to work<\/a> in one of the campus cafes, in the PAL department or as a student ambassador. These are all great roles to work in, super flexible and very well paid. I\u2019ve worked as a student ambassador for 3 years and I would really recommend it \u2013 it\u2019s the perfect part time job for a university student because of how flexible it is!<\/p>\n

Well, there you go, a whole bunch of suggestions! Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love a good nap in between classes, but I also love the campus atmosphere and sometimes (although rarely!) I have no coursework to do. These are all things that I have done in my 3 years at university and I would highly recommend them all, they\u2019re a lot of fun and most are great to add to your CV. Plus, most of them you can do from the comfort of Dylan\u2019s<\/a> with a cheap meal and a drink or two 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timetables. You either love them or hate them \u2013 whilst the majority of us know that the timetabling department aren\u2019t purposely trying to ruin our lives (it can\u2019t be an easy job creating a schedule for every course), it can be kind of annoying if you have an early morning AND late evening class with… Read more » about What to do in your spare time on campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3655,"featured_media":22598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1663,12,704,217,1638],"tags":[862,130,1138,592,69,1028,271],"class_list":["post-22597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-postgraduate","category-student-blogs","category-student-life","category-students-union","category-undergraduate","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu-student","tag-student-life","tag-students","tag-study","tag-things-to-do-in-bournemouth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22845,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions\/22845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}