{"id":5104,"date":"2023-03-22T15:12:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2023-03-31T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:19:10","slug":"missing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2023\/03\/22\/missing-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What advice do you have for anyone about to embark on their Year in Industry?\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ui-provider ix b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">One top-tip I have when it comes to placements (and in general): don&#8217;t be afraid to speak up! No one is looking for someone to be absolutely perfect and get everything correct all the time, but they do want to see that you&#8217;re critically thinking and engaging. Even if you make a mistake and say something wrong, it&#8217;s better to learn from that and grow, than to have gained nothing at all by staying silent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Uni study or placement? <\/strong>Both!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dissertation or extended essay? <\/strong>Extended essay<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stata or R? <\/strong>R<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bus or Tube? <\/strong>Tube<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee or tea? <\/strong>Tea \u2013 but I like both!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turing or Parkwood? <\/strong>Darwin &#x1f602;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woody&#8217;s or K bar? <\/strong>Woody\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group Study Space or Silent Zone? <\/strong>Silent Zone<\/p>\n<p><strong>WFH or WAO? <\/strong>WFH, but with some WAO as well!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suit or Dress Down? <\/strong>Dress-down<\/p>\n<p><strong>Club Chem or Venue? <\/strong>Neither<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bet on Red or Black? <\/strong>Either-or<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spend or Save? <\/strong>Save<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"ui-provider vo b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Sebastian Loftblad<\/span> is studying towards a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/112\">BSc in Economics <\/a>with a Language (Spanish) and a Year in Industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What advice do you have for anyone about to embark on their Year in Industry?\u00a0One top-tip I have when it comes to placements (and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2023\/03\/22\/missing-you\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":5108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}