{"id":537,"date":"2020-10-02T08:32:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/?p=537"},"modified":"2020-10-02T08:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:32:03","slug":"bath-graduates-share-their-tips-for-new-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/2020\/10\/02\/bath-graduates-share-their-tips-for-new-arrivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath graduates share their tips for new arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We asked our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bath.alumni.community\/\">Facebook<\/a> followers: what are your top campus tips for new arrivals to Claverton Down? From self-awareness to skipping, here's the best advice from our alumni community...<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpend this week getting to know everyone else \u2013 because you'll spend the next four years afterwards getting to know yourself.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Rob Furber (BSc Chemical Engineering 1978)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c1. Buy a bus pass, because although hill walking is Covid-friendly, it's a killer on the muscles!<br \/>\n2. Do as much in welcome week as possible to find a society\/group that fits you.<br \/>\n3. Be yourself. You'll have a great future.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Matthew Holmes (BSc Applied Physics with Placement 1995)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork hard but make sure you put aside time for relaxation, leisure and sports.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Trev Searle (BSc Electrical &amp; Electronic Engineering 1974)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re walking to town from campus, skip down the hill... it's more fun, uses less energy and doesn't leave you with dying leg muscles the next day!\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Claire Huntley (BSc Applied Biology with Placement 1996)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay in touch with your buddies \u2013 I graduated in 1984 and I am still connected with my Bath buddies. It has been almost 40 years since we first met and when we get together we are transported back to the \u201880s.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Fuzianna Ibrahim (BPharm Pharmacy 1984)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake a dog for a walk at the dogs\u2019 home near the campus.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Dane Marsh (BSc Sociology with Industrial Relations with Placement 1998)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked our Facebook followers: what are your top campus tips for new arrivals to Claverton Down? From self-awareness to skipping, here's the best advice from our alumni community... \u201cSpend this week getting to know everyone else \u2013 because you'll...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1377,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,98,100,97,99],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-campus","tag-alumni","tag-campus","tag-claverton-down","tag-memories","tag-welcome-week"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/09\/29280-0172.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}