{"id":3424,"date":"2015-11-25T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:34:43","slug":"why-i-chose-bu-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/11\/25\/why-i-chose-bu-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I chose BU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Charlie-Sawers\"<\/a>Back in the day, when the words “college” and “A-levels” made me want to crawl into a hole and never be seen again, my goal was to find a better place and somewhere I could feel happy. But looking for the perfect university was difficult. For me it had to tick five boxes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Enjoyable course<\/li>\n
  2. Nice campus<\/li>\n
  3. Wonderful location<\/li>\n
  4. Industry links<\/li>\n
  5. Accommodation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As I wanted to do Scriptwriting<\/a> as my degree, that limited my choice on universities. Though there were some close to home, most of them were down South. Being from Manchester it was hard to think I would probably be the only Northerner, but it excited me. I visited five different universities, with one university campus literally peeling away and another being located in The Jeremy Kyle show, while looking at all of them I wondered if university was really the right way to go.<\/p>\n\"Welcome-to-BU-slider\"<\/a>\n

    Then there it was. Bournemouth University, the holy grail, everything I was looking for. It had great facilities both for my course and for students, with lots of different societies to join, but to be honest I was just shocked there was more than one cafe on campus – that really sold me. The course sounded so interesting and something I felt I could excel at, with links to companies such as Disney, BBC and Channel 4. The student accommodation was nicer and cheaper than other university student halls, even the BU-managed Unilets were big and spacious.<\/p>\n

    Not only that, but Bournemouth is lovely! A gorgeous white beach, actually good arcades, cute town centre, it was like Blackpool and Manchester meshed together (only much nicer than both). I guess the truth is as soon as the Open Day had finished and I saw what the town was like, I knew that Bournemouth was right for me. It fitted all my criteria and it was the best university that I had seen, plus I wouldn’t have to go to abroad to get a nice beach!<\/p>\n\"Charlie-beach---slider\"<\/a>\n

    By Charlie Sawers<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Back in the day, when the words “college” and “A-levels” made me want to crawl into a hole and never be seen again, my goal was to find a better place and somewhere I could feel happy. But looking for the perfect university was difficult. For me it had to tick five boxes: Enjoyable course… Read more » about Why I chose BU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,130,48,536,537,5,206,271,42,40],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-charlie-sawers","tag-choosing-a-uni","tag-open-days","tag-scriptwriting","tag-things-to-do-in-bournemouth","tag-ucas","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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\/1432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13808,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/13808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}