REVISED JOURNALS

Journal Entry 2 –Being a METU Student (REVISED)

 

From my viewpoint, being a Metu student makes people imaginative ,creative and critical owing to the fact that it has its own education system which is different from the classic Turkish education system. For example ,there are always questions around the class like 'Why,What is the reason behind it?' during the lessons.Therefore,this pushes the students into thinking and inquiring about any subject all the time and I think that it makes us "real people”.

In addition to this, life in Metu has some harships such as different kinds of assignments.Even though it might look an awful thing at first,it is really advantageous because students all around the world need to be improved and this happens only by such assignments as drama, presentations or activities like "DJ of the week".

Besides,there are lots of students coming from different cities and countries and each of them has his/her own lifestyle. That’s because all the students respect to each other although it is really hard especially in today's world. So, it is one more thing that makes us 'real' people. All in all, Metu helps its students discover their abilities and improve themselves both individually and socially.

 

MY IDEAL UNIVERSITY (REVISED)

 

   Today, although there are lots of universities all around the world ,for me, most of them aren't able to educate their students well enough  to find good solutions to the problems that they face.We can easily see this by watching TV,surfing on the internet or just looking around us because there are many people having graduated from different kinds of universities but they're not even able to know what's going on around them or they don't even try to find good ways to improve the countries yhat they live in. I think that this is a very big problem which can be solved by educating people "truly". Also, this will be possible with "real" universities. For me, Metu is one of these universities because it not only educates its students of their departments but also helps them look at their lives from different perspectives and makes them understand what real life is.As a result of this,those who have graduated from such universities like Metu become aware of the facts.Finally, a good university should educate mentally and emotionally mature generations. That means providing good solutions both to its country and to the world.