{"id":618,"date":"2014-10-29T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=618"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:34:47","slug":"why-i-chose-bu-for-my-masters-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/10\/29\/why-i-chose-bu-for-my-masters-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I chose BU for my Master&#8217;s degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Meet our new blogger Alice White as she talks about why she&#8217;s returned to BU&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After working for four years I felt restless. My brain needed a challenge and my career needed a new direction. The idea to study an MA kind of took me by surprise; New Year is always a time for big ideas, half-baked plans and hollow promises, but the idea to go back to uni was one throw-away thought that stuck in my head like a splinter. By February I was still serious about doing it, so I sent off my application and within weeks had committed myself to one more year of student life.<\/p>\n<p>I chose Bournemouth University for many reasons, but if I\u2019m honest the alumni discount was the initial big attraction: 20% off is definitely not to be sniffed at. I also thought back to my time studying Multimedia Journalism at Bournemouth, and I knew it was where I wanted to go. The facilities, the staff, the reputation \u2013 they\u2019re all there in one brilliant and vibrant campus.<\/p>\n<p>The town itself is also a beautiful place to be, especially in the summer. How could I resist all that sun, sea and ice cream?<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it \u2013 I am shamelessly in love with Bournemouth University. This year I\u2019ve come back bigger and better than on my BA \u2013 more committed to the course (I\u2019m now writing essays days before they\u2019re due, not hours), to the uni (I\u2019m a rep, #purplearmy) and to my future.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to make this year count.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet our new blogger Alice White as she talks about why she&#8217;s returned to BU&#8230; After working for four years I felt restless. My brain needed a challenge and my career needed a new direction. The idea to study an MA kind of took me by surprise; New Year is always a time for big&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/10\/29\/why-i-chose-bu-for-my-masters-degree\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Why I chose BU for my Master&#8217;s degree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[1696,1924,2048,1149,1028],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-alice-white","tag-graduates","tag-masters","tag-postgraduate","tag-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}