{"id":58,"date":"2018-08-09T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/?p=58"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:41:37","slug":"sign-up-as-a-kent-unibuddy-and-help-future-students-figure-uni-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/2018\/08\/09\/sign-up-as-a-kent-unibuddy-and-help-future-students-figure-uni-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign up as a Kent Unibuddy and help future students figure uni out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to uni, whether it&#8217;s close or far away from where you live, can be a scary and confusing experience. The University is trying to make the process a bit easier by having Unibuddies. What is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/unibuddy\/\">Unibuddy<\/a>? They are students that have signed up to be available to get questions from people who are thinking of coming to Kent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s the weather like? How are your lecturers? As an international student what was the hardest thing to get used to?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since\u00a0April 2018,<span id=\"num-questions\" class=\"dtio\">\u00a01870 questions like these\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0have been answered by our students.<\/p>\n<p>Want to sign up? On top of good karma for helping other people out, you also get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 Employability Points for signing up<\/li>\n<li>10 points for attending the training session<\/li>\n<li>Additional 10 points for the most committed \u2018buddy\u2019 per month<\/li>\n<li>Additional 5 points for best blog post per month<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Will count towards KSCV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-17.16.31-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-17.16.31-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-17.16.31-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-17.16.31.png 1001w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interested? You can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app-eu.geckoform.com\/public\/#\/modern\/FOEU024be47s6Qbk\">fill out this online application.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to uni, whether it&#8217;s close or far away from where you live, can be a scary and confusing experience. The University is trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/2018\/08\/09\/sign-up-as-a-kent-unibuddy-and-help-future-students-figure-uni-out\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56011,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159334,5343],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}