{"id":712,"date":"2014-12-02T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=712"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:05:36","slug":"its-never-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/12\/02\/its-never-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s never too late"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tNew blogger Lina Abdul Halim talks about international study, being at a cross-roads in life and how it’s never too late to start learning…<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was September 2013. I found myself sitting in my room, wondering what I was going to do with my life. I have been a film and documentary editor for the last 4 years but there was something missing…<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have a Bachelor\u2019s degree to my name. My highest level of education is a Diploma in Communication and Media and I graduated in 2010. I had already started working months before I even graduated from that. I needed the money. Malaysia didn\u2019t have that many film schools to choose from. Going overseas cost too much money and in 2010, my family couldn’t afford it and I was already stuck paying student loans for my Diploma.<\/p>\n

I learned everything I knew on the job but I was just following orders. I never took the time to really read up on why certain things worked the way they did \u2013 or rather, I didn’t have the time to do it.<\/p>\n

Fast forward 3 years, at the age of 26, after a few movies and several documentaries, I was tired and burning out. I didn’t know what to do with myself, but I was far too young to be jaded. I sat down with my father \u2013 my hero and my #1 cheerleader \u2013 and asked him one question: \u201cam I too old to go back to school?\u201d<\/p>\n

His reply: No one is ever too old to pursue education.<\/p>\n

That was when I decided that I wanted to take a Master\u2019s degree. I figured I would have more time to really refine my skills and knowledge as well as work on the creative aspect of film-making. I looked at film-making degrees and stumbled upon Bournemouth University, which had a more focused course, the one thing I wanted to pursue for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

So I dug up my Diploma\u00a0and\u00a0transcripts, I asked my old lecturers and employers to write me reference letters and I sent them over to BU along with my application to pursue an MA in Post Production Editing. I feared my lack of a Bachelor\u2019s Degree might hinder my chances of getting in\u2026<\/p>\n

But it didn’t.<\/p>\n

And so on 12 September 2014 at 4:30PM GMT+08:00, with my big orange suitcase, a 30L backpack and a teddy bear, I boarded that 21 hour flight all the way to England.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New blogger Lina Abdul Halim talks about international study, being at a cross-roads in life and how it’s never too late to start learning… It was September 2013. I found myself sitting in my room, wondering what I was going to do with my life. I have been a film and documentary editor for the… Read more » about It’s never too late<\/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":[877,130,48,785,2008,2060,108,2167,2186],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-international-student","tag-lina-abdulhalim","tag-mature-study","tag-media-school","tag-post-production-editing","tag-postgraduate-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}