{"id":7103,"date":"2017-10-19T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2021-11-12T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T12:07:00","slug":"why-you-should-book-an-open-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2017\/10\/19\/why-you-should-book-an-open-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should book an Open Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Booking an Open Day is the most valuable thing you can do when picking a University. Looking at the website and photos can only give you so much information about the course\/location\/accommodation, but if you really want to immerse yourself in parts of Uni life, you must book an Open Day!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Bournemouth University have various<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/open-days\"> Open Days<\/a> coming up over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>When you visit there will be lots of student ambassadors \u2013 all from a variety of years \u2013 all ready to answer any questions or to give you campus tours (look out for them in the pink hoodies!).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your favoured <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/courses\">course<\/a> is, going to the lecture talks will you give you an amazing insight into the course, assessments, careers, the lectures and lecturers themselves, and what current students say. For me, I was fortunate to have a great and engaging lecturer (that I have this year!) give the talk, and that was one of the reasons Bournemouth won me over. You\u2019ll also get a feel of sitting in a lecture, because it is a big change from sitting in a classroom with people you have known for years!<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you will be able to get more of an insight on those<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/students\/things-do\"> \u2018extras\u2019 at uni<\/a>. These could include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clubs<\/li>\n<li>Societies<\/li>\n<li>Places to eat and drink.<\/li>\n<li>Sport facilities (including the gym)<\/li>\n<li>Study areas and facilities.\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7105\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_4441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7105\" class=\" wp-image-7105\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_4441-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the uni bus<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, there are regular bus tours on the Open Days taking you and your parents between the two campuses, so you can view the<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/why-bu\/accommodation\"> accommodation<\/a> right in the heart of Bournemouth. I think everyone enjoys looking around the halls (remember to check out the brand new Halls \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/why-bu\/accommodation\/home-park\">Homepark<\/a>\u2019!) to see where they might be spending their first year at University, and to check out all the facilities they have.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So good luck, and book yours today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booking an Open Day is the most valuable thing you can do when picking a University. Looking at the website and photos can only give you so much information about the course\/location\/accommodation, but if you really want to immerse yourself in parts of Uni life, you must book an Open Day! Luckily, Bournemouth University have&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2017\/10\/19\/why-you-should-book-an-open-day\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Why you should book an Open Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1658],"tags":[48,657,112,104,7,881,5,69,182],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-blog-archive","tag-bu","tag-bu-accommodation","tag-clubs","tag-courses","tag-facilities","tag-lectures","tag-open-days","tag-students","tag-visiting-bu-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","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\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}