{"id":9687,"date":"2019-05-02T10:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2020-10-28T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:26:39","slug":"studying-in-bu-as-an-international-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2019\/05\/02\/studying-in-bu-as-an-international-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying in BU as an international student"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was born and raised in\u00a0Vienna, Austria, then took\u00a0the plunge and moved\u00a0to another country by\u00a0myself! I am currently in\u00a0my second year as a BA\u00a0(Hons) Communication\u00a0& Media<\/a> student here at\u00a0Bournemouth University\u00a0and certainly have a lot of\u00a0stories to tell.\u00a0When people back at home ask me\u00a0what it is like to study in Bournemouth\u00a0I always say, \u201cit\u2019s like being on a holiday\u00a0while I\u2019m studying for my degree\u201d\u00a0and here is why:\u00a0When I didn\u2019t know what un\"\"iversity
\nlife was like, I probably would have\u00a0described it as being locked up in\u00a0lecture halls with an endless number\u00a0of hours sitting with hundreds of other students waiting for the time to pass\u00a0by. But experiencing what it’s like\u00a0to study at Bournemouth University\u00a0proved me very wrong!\u00a0While living in central Europe, I never\u00a0had the opportunity to study in a town\u00a0where it takes ten minutes to walk to a\u00a0beach for a study break. After one of my\u00a0lectures, seminars or revision sessions in\u00a0the library, walking down the pier really\u00a0clears my mind and relieves any stress\u00a0from course works and essays.Neither did I know about the seminars\u00a0that come with the lectures, which are\u00a0in groups of around 20 people and more\u00a0interactive! These seminars are what\u00a0helped me when I had issues with any\u00a0of the coursework or group projects\u00a0we were assigned. We were able to\u00a0talk to our lecturers while they were\u00a0able to make sure we were all on the\u00a0same page about the content of the\u00a0respective subject.\u00a0On another note, the seminars are such\u00a0a good opportunity to meet your course\u00a0mates as well. And since you are staying\u00a0in the same groups for the year, you will\u00a0most certainly end up being good mates.\u00a0If you think the seminar groups aren\u2019t\u00a0enough, then you haven\u2019t seen what\u00a0SUBU has to offer! They have so many\u00a0clubs and societies to choose from and\u00a0the one I joined is the K-Pop Society.\u00a0To be completely honest, I wasn\u2019t too much of a K-Pop fanatic when I joined\u00a0but the people in the society are\u00a0what made me stay.\u00a0Being involved in a society really\u00a0exposed me to such a diverse range of\u00a0people who have similar interests as me.\u00a0It\u2019s such an easy way to get out there\u00a0without having to go through awkward\u00a0small talk since you already have a hinton what the other person likes. And\u00a0part of being in a society are the weekly\u00a0socials, which range from musical chairs\u00a0to movie nights to epic nights out!\u00a0So, this is why I feel like I\u2019m permanently on a holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was born and raised in\u00a0Vienna, Austria, then took\u00a0the plunge and moved\u00a0to another country by\u00a0myself! I am currently in\u00a0my second year as a BA\u00a0(Hons) Communication\u00a0& Media student here at\u00a0Bournemouth University\u00a0and certainly have a lot of\u00a0stories to tell.\u00a0When people back at home ask me\u00a0what it is like to study in Bournemouth\u00a0I always say, \u201cit\u2019s like being… Read more » about Studying in BU as an international student<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2788,"featured_media":9688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[496,19,1646,501,798,12,1638],"tags":[490],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ug-courses","category-featured","category-local-area","category-media-film-tv-music-production","category-placements","category-student-blogs","category-undergraduate","tag-ba-hons-communication-and-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","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\/2788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9689,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions\/9689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}