{"id":3466,"date":"2015-11-27T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:34:41","slug":"my-graduation-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/11\/27\/my-graduation-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My graduation day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"michelle-lillywhite\"<\/a>Three years. Three or more homes. Many lectures. More assignments than you can shake a stick at – let alone exams. One or two hangovers (cough), potentially a few library fines. The most amazing bunch of memories, a fuller than most friends list and a busy\u00a0Twitter\u00a0feed – and then uni is over. It\u2019s a weird anti-climax when you go your separate ways in the summer.<\/p>\n

That’s why graduation is so important – and a great way after a few months in the mad world of work, to come back together with all your friends and colleagues and celebrate what you have achieved.<\/p>\n

For me I always looked at the goofy graduation photos on other people\u2019s desks and wondered what it is all about. But on 3 November 2015 I found out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about saying, I did this – on my own. I worked late into the night and early into the morning, I left the familiar friends and family and made new friends and discovered a new\u00a0BU family. And no matter what happens in my life from this moment on I am\u00a0this new version of myself. I am a bit more grown up, a lot wiser\u00a0and I\u00a0have had the most amazing experience that only a select few will really be able to share with me. And you may, like myself, be captured on film for YouTube for all eternity!<\/p>\n

I am a BU graduate. And I couldn\u2019t be prouder of myself.<\/p>\n

So here is my goofy photo – but don\u2019t judge me. Join me!!!<\/p>\n\"Michelle<\/a>\n

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

Three years. Three or more homes. Many lectures. More assignments than you can shake a stick at – let alone exams. One or two hangovers (cough), potentially a few library fines. The most amazing bunch of memories, a fuller than most friends list and a busy\u00a0Twitter\u00a0feed – and then uni is over. It\u2019s a weird… Read more » about My graduation day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,130,48,466,261,207,547],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-bu-alumni","tag-bu-graduation","tag-graduate","tag-michelle-lilywhite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","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\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}