{"id":23,"date":"2014-01-06T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites-dev.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:17:57","slug":"time-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/01\/06\/time-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<b><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2014\/02\/bournemouth-gardens-cenotaph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-228\" alt=\"The Cenotaph in Bournemouth Gardens\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2014\/02\/bournemouth-gardens-cenotaph-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>By Merna Ghabbour<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was June 2012; I was re-evaluating what I wanted out of life, specifically my career path. I liked what I was doing for a time, but I wanted more, so I sat in front of my computer for hours on end. I always had a knack for ethics and I enjoyed communications. I was also in a relationship management role for work. Public relations was right up my alley and that\u2019s what I came across at Bournemouth University. Professors with industry experience, the freedom to choose between consultancy project or a dissertation, the opportunity to study in one of the most beautiful parts of England. It was like I had won the lottery, I immediately applied.<\/p>\n<p>From application to acceptance, to arriving at Bournemouth, it was a really great experience. The international team were so helpful in making everything run smoothly and seamlessly. I knew I had made the right choice.<\/p>\n<p>My advice, ask all the questions you need. The help is invaluable. BU staff wants to help in making the most of your experience; they helped me immensely with mine.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merna Ghabbour It was June 2012; I was re-evaluating what I wanted out of life, specifically my career path. I liked what I was doing for a time, but I wanted more, so I sat in front of my computer for hours on end. I always had a knack for ethics and I enjoyed&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/01\/06\/time-for-change\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Time for a change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-merna-ghabbour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","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\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}