REVISED JOURNAL ENTRY: IDEAS ABOUT MY METU LIFE

                          IDEAS ABOUT MY METU LIFE

At METU, I have experienced some challenges so far. These things have affected my school life. First of all, I have met a new climate and environment. These things need a long time to get accustomed. Because I am from Black sea region, it is hard to cope with the dry air for me. While I was trying to get used to the climate and the environment, I could not focused on my studies. But, besides this, I want to touch on the campus. The campus of METU fascinates me very much.  It has a huge land and a huge forest. I need something like that because I grew up in a village. At least, the campus helps me get used to here. Another challenge for me is hardship of studying. We have always answered test questions in high school years. This working made us sleepy and we forgot how to study the real things. Here I cannot study enough for my academic career. The high school was not good for me actually. But, at least, I found something in high school: listening music is good for me to study. Music helps me in every aspect. While studying, I listen to music. It keeps me from the disturbance of others. It relaxed me. It helps me get used to everything. Music is my best friend.

REVISED JOURNAL ENTRY: THE REAL ONE

                                 THE REAL ONE

           A university should provide everything a student can need. There should not be any missing element. Student should be able to find what they need easily. In this way, the university can school perfect individuals. One of these things a student needs is social elements. Social elements help student make progress. If student focuses on academic career, he/she fails in time. If a car does not take its gas, it stop when gas run out. Student is like that, too. If he/she does not participate in some social activities regularly, he/she cannot go on his/her career, the road he/she needs to take. social elements can be divided into two part; sport activities and the activities with friends(dating, gathering somewhere, parties etc.). There should be sport halls in the campus. Student should be able to access these sorts of things easily. While some students want do sport, some others can want to promenade with friends. There should be places that student can wander or sit and talk or do something with friends. A university should provide these ones. Another group of needs is academic elements. Student needs to go on his/her academic education. A university should provide a perfect education for its students. The student should be educated for their career in a perfect manner, not just enough to find a job. Besides that, a university should give the student what he/she wants. Each student can want different career and university should be capable of that. It should be able to provide all career types for students. It can be said that METU has some of these elements. It has sport halls, cafes and a stadium to meet. But there could be a picnic site for students. METU also has a good education. It has better academicians than most of other universities have. It leads its students to an academic career. It can be said METU is good for us. 

SHAMMERS

On earth there are shammers with us. They do different things for each different person or do different things for same person. They have deceiving habits in their souls. They play with people from low-class. They try to make profit from these innocent people or do not take into consideration their problems. They think these people are there to serve to them. Shammers do not need them, as far as they think, it is not certain if it is true. But they cannot survive without innocent people. They need them. There is an injustice here. Innocent people are made a cat’s paw of shammers.  Even if the innocent people do good things for them, they still behave badly towards innocence. 

Here is a short film about this topic. Low-class people look bad to higher classes. The higher ones think they are criminals, they need punishing. Among these higher ones there are our shammers. They think the lower ones are criminal and they play with them crucially. The lowers cannot get higher and so they are always downside the world. Actually we can say they are in the hell. 

A COMMON WAY

In our lives, there are lots of different kinds of people. These people use different languages and communication style. Sometimes two different people try to make themselves clear in different ways. Because of this they cannot understand each other. People need to find a common language to communicate. If they do not, they cannot make a good relationship with each other. Some people do not give up fighting for peace and agreement. They always try to find a way. They are not fed up with searching. They think that even if the other people cannot understand them in this way, they will understand in another way. If you want something, you need to fight for it. You need to find a way. A way that all human beings have a piece.

In this video, you can find a fighting for communicating with a girl. The man and the girl come across each other on a bench. The boy tries to talk with her but, at first, she cannot hear him. The boy does not give up fighting and tries some other ways. Finally he found a way to communicate. He writes on papers and gives them to the girl. He thinks she may not like talking much. But actually she is a deaf girl. She is not capable of hearing the words he says. The boy finally finds this out. The way the people use to communicate sometimes cannot be appropriate for others. You need common way.  

Video journal set

In today world, people are always in the internet. We try to live our lifes by taking help from the internet. We do not enough time to spend with our friends. We are always talk via facebook, messenger, yahoo, twitter etc. These devices are not real, but we are not aware of it. Something is wrong with us, do not you think so? Sharing video and posts all the time are not real communications.We need to share our emotions face to face. If we do not, how can we be sure about the sincerity of the person there. We can say that people generally use internet to disguise themselves. We cannot be sure if the person we meet on the internet is a man or a woman. We should stay away from the people using internet alot.

Here is a short film about the subject above. In this video a man uses internet via his contact lenses. There is no touchable matter with him. Technology has improved very much in the future.The man takes help from the internet all the time even if when he is dating with a woman.  As I said, however, using internet extremely much is not good for people. The women in the film realizes that he is using a dating app and then she get out of the home of the man. He is using the internet for disguising himself but the woman sees that soon.

Comments

FIRST COMMENT

http://atamanes.blogspot.com/2012/11/journal-entry-7.html?showComment=1358683755218#c2415665175992991344

Hey man! I think I will absolutely try it later. You give the information about 'börek' appetisingly. Now I am hungry and I need to eat something. Anyway, I want to say something about some mistakes I think so. Instead of using 's' in 'Tatars-People', it is much more true that using only 'Tatar-People'. Maybe I just misunderstood the word order. The other one is in the line the third. 'A mixture ... and potato is used' is a wrong usage. ' .. are used' should be used, I think. Do not be angry my friend. take it easy. :)

THE SECOND COMMENT

http://kozamtienti.blogspot.com/2013/01/journal-entry-6-video-reflection-steve.html?showComment=1359047578088#c3813656985855856854

Serhat, you found a good point to show us. I like the video and the things you sad about it. The music is perfect, too. The way you used to talk is also good. There is no grammar mistake as far as I check.

THE THİRD COMMENT

http://buse-caliskan.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-brain-odtu.html?showComment=1359049492160#c8003717041268039933

Dear Buse. Your thoughts about this slogan is something good. But I think there is something wrong with grammar or I think so. In the third line 
you can use 'while' instead of 'when'. I think it will be more suitable. There is also something in the last paragraph. In the line the fourth, you can use 'and' without a comma. Sincerely. see you :)

I want to tell something about 'keşkek' today. I thougt 'keşkek' was consumed in only Samsun. But I learned it is widely cooked. I made some researh on internet and I found it is also cooked abroad. It is named as kashkak, keşkek, kashkeg, kishkak, kashkek etc. 'Keşkek is a kind of ceremonial meal cooked with chicken and wheat found in Iranian, Turkish and Greek cuisines. We can say it's origin dates back to 15. century and from then it is still consumed by many Iranians all around the world. The origins of this meal seems like  Kashk, which, in 16th- to 18th-century Iran had sheep's milk added to wheat or barley flour and meat, mixed in equal pars. This meal is a traditional wedding ceremony dish in Turkey. But under same other names it is cooked for festivals in Lesbos and Samos, as well as among Greek Pontians and in Epirus. 'Keskek' is also listed Unesco's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in November 2011. Keşkek is called "haşıl" in Northeast and Middle Anatolia regions in Turkey. In both Turkey and Iran, it is a common dish and frequently consumed during religious festivals, weddings or funerals.

Ingridents

Two glasses of wheat.

Four glasses of water.

Two spoon of butter or olive oil.

Two chicken leg.