{"id":4985,"date":"2016-09-16T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:31:55","slug":"jaimalees-journey-to-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/09\/16\/jaimalees-journey-to-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaimalee&#8217;s journey to BU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2016\/09\/Jaimalee.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4986\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2016\/09\/Jaimalee-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Jaimalee\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>As I started preparing my daughter Jennea for the bright, yet challenging, world ahead of her at her own university last year, she asked with concern and love, \u201cWhat are you going to do now mum?\u201d Without thinking, I answered her as I always had: \u201cLive bold, follow bliss, experience despite fear\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve said these words countless times to Jennea as she was growing up. A mantra from mother to daughter. When I really thought about it, I wasn\u2019t sure what they meant for me. Words that began as statements of encouragement to her soon inspired me to follow my own adventure into an exciting academic unknown.<\/p>\n<p>My bliss is writing. The moment I first read about the MLit (Hons) English degree at BU, I knew it was for me. I spent months writing and editing my application essay. When I received my unconditional offer, I rejoiced to every soul I knew, although reactions didn\u2019t mirror the excitement and optimism I had anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, Jaime, you\u2019re almost 40. Aren\u2019t you a little old to go back to school?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve never lived outside Colorado. Are you sure you want to live in a different country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t you afraid of quitting your stable job to be a writer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then I told Jennea\u2026 \u201cMum!! That\u2019s amazing! I\u2019m so proud of you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through her eyes, despite my fear of the future, I did for myself what I had always taught her to do: I chose Bournemouth University as my firm choice, I quit my job, I packed my bags, and I gave Jennea one last hug before flying to Bournemouth. I cannot see what the future will bring, but with the utmost of determination and motivation, I will\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I started preparing my daughter Jennea for the bright, yet challenging, world ahead of her at her own university last year, she asked with concern and love, \u201cWhat are you going to do now mum?\u201d Without thinking, I answered her as I always had: \u201cLive bold, follow bliss, experience despite fear\u201d. I\u2019ve said these&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/09\/16\/jaimalees-journey-to-bu\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Jaimalee&#8217;s journey to BU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[450,51,71],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-arrivals","tag-international","tag-journey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","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\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}