Why UWIC, and why media?

Good question.
We'll start with media, since I was doing that before I came to UWIC.
I decided whilst I was still at school that I wanted to do media at college. If I'm honest it was for two reasons; number one was that at the time I wanted to be a journalist for a music magazine, specifically the NME (as Niles once said to Frasier: "Were we ever that young?"). Number two is that I didn't know what else I wanted to do. I was good at English but couldn't see what career a qualification in English would lead to, besides becoming an English teacher, which really wasn't up my street since I despised schoolkids enough when I was one, let alone being the 'mature adult' in a class full of them.
So I suppose those were my reasons for chosing media. At the time it seemed to really go with what I wanted to do in the future, though it seemed to become more and less relevant every time my aspirations changed. Chosing to study media at university was an easy choice for me; I already had a qualification in media, I'd enjoyed most of what I studied at college and was looking forward to learning more about the cultural side of media studies.
So that's media, now, Why UWIC?
This decision was much less academically based. I wanted to come to the city of Cardiff since I already knew people living either here or in Newport, and I definately wanted to move away from home. I chose UWIC specifically because I liked the idea of doing a media course that also involved culural studies, which really caught my interest.
So those are the reasons for me being where I am today. Some of them were made on a whim, others carefully considered, but I'm glad they've all lead me here.