So it’s a bloggy course, and I’ve added people on Facebook from it, and the fact that the last blog I made about a uni visit, one of the professors commented on it, so let’s see what happens now.

Let’s not make any bones about it – Bournemouth Uni was my top choice without even seeing it. This was based on the website alone, and I felt I already knew the place through it. If their website’s very useful and awesomely designed, the one would hope that it is retrospective of the course. In fact we were given a lecture from the guy who designed it who did the course, but that comes later…

Northampton to Bournemouth is a good three hour car journey. We aimed to set off at 6:30 to roll in at 9:30 in good time for the start. I woke up at half five, which is a good two hours earlier than a normal school day (pfft, ‘good’? Not quite.) just to get there on time.

I got some quality time with my iPod, though. It made me realise half the games on there really aren’t worth the screen space they take up. :p Not driving, it’s a rare chance to enjoy a journey, before I realised I really hate long car journeys. I like being able to move. Moving is good.

We arrived in a rather windy Bournemouth at about quarter to nine. Found my way into what I thought was the wrong building, but was in fact the right one. Odd. I found a big group of people with a green sheet looking lost, and just knew I was supposed to be lost with them.

We went into this lecture theatre for a brief summary of the course – all the way through needing the loo. I hate needing the toilet. It sucks. I fidget. A lot. But it was over in a rather long half an hour, even if it was informative.

Then we did this practical ‘taster’ activity, where we paired up with some complete stranger and made a fake Facebook profile for them on Dreamweaver, lovingly called ‘Acebook’, despite looking exactly the same. There I met Steve. Steve seems like a legend. :p We both just don’t get the iMacs, I don’t think. Mental.

After that (oh, and a fire – someone set fire to the kit in the kit room somehow…) we went for a lecture from a guy who actually made it from the course. He’s the guy behind Fat Amsterdam and, later on, the Bournemouth Uni virtual tour. He’s a legend too. Free trips to America is what I like to hear…

Then we had this tour, led by this really mental  kid. Things like "Here’s a library. You know what a library looks like. Let’s move on…", who when seeing his friends handing their dissertation in, asks what they’re doing next, and they just reply "…well, get wasted". Seems… nice.

Then we went home. See paragraph on the journey there for pretty much the same story.

So yeah. Bournemouth’s nice, the uni’s quite good too. It’s looking good as a top choice.

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