{"id":168,"date":"2018-09-24T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/?p=168"},"modified":"2018-09-24T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:14:54","slug":"early-term-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/early-term-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Early term inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our incoming students to the English programme were lucky enough on their very first day to have an inspirational talk from Si\u00e2n Bevan. Si\u00e2n works for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofliterature.com\/\">Edinburgh City of Literature<\/a>, which is just one of the ways she uses her many skills.\u00a0 She talked to first years on the English and English &amp; Film programmes about starting at university and careers in the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Si\u00e2n wrote up her thoughts after the event on her own blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sianyb.com\/2018\/09\/10\/new-chapters-and-old-advice\/\">https:\/\/sianyb.com\/2018\/09\/10\/new-chapters-and-old-advice\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some useful thoughts here if you&#8217;re not a first year, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our incoming students to the English programme were lucky enough on their very first day to have an inspirational talk from Si\u00e2n Bevan. 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