BY İREM NAZ DUYMUŞ (AMER/III) & EDA EMEKOĞLU (AMER/III) This month has had many firsts: first classes to consider in add/drop week, the first official week of classes and the first edition of Bilkent News (filled with amazing content). Yeah, all of that happened. I don’t know about you, but I think the[Read More…]
BY İREM NAZ DUYMUŞ (AMER/III) & EDA EMEKOĞLU (AMER/III) These Eyes Realize Whether school is in session or not, students ought to have solid recommendations from a mediocre member of the Letterboxd community who wears prescribed sunglasses everywhere and every day. These eyes are always on the lookout for something worthwhile and[Read More…]
4 Sight: In Foresight, we look ahead together—bringing you the latest news, important campus updates, and a glimpse of what’s around the corner. We bid farewell to the summer—some of us spent our days exploring new places, chasing sunsets and maybe even making a few wrong turns. Others found comfort[Read More…]
BY İREM NAZ DUYMUŞ (AMER/III) & EDA EMEKOĞLU (AMER/III) Dearest Bilkenter, Let me humbly introduce this earnest endeavor: Four Editorials for Bilkent — a corner of ink and thought, crafted not merely to be read, but to be felt, reflected upon, belonged to and even participated in. This new column[Read More…]
BY FATMA GİZEM TAŞLIÇAY gizem.taslicay@ug.bilkent.edu.tr As we grow up, the meaning of happiness and our search for it gets more complicated. There comes a time when we feel completely lost in the world as we look for life’s meaning. I don’t know if there can be a scientific formula for[Read More…]
BY FATMA GİZEM TAŞLIÇAY (PSYC/II) gizem.taslicay@ug.bilkent.edu.tr How different would my life have been if I had made one different decision along the way? As students in Turkey, we are forced to make a life-altering decision about who we want to be at the end of high school. We are asked[Read More…]
BY FATMA GİZEM TAŞLIÇAY (PSYC/II) gizem.taslicay@ug.bilkent.edu.tr People tell me to empty my mind, meditate and take things one at a time, or even take a break. Physically speaking, I can do all that, but how do I stop my mind from wondering – how do I stop, well, thinking? The[Read More…]
BY ŞEBNEM TÜRE (PSYC/II) I’ve been writing here since the time when I’d just gotten used to college life. Graduating now, I see that in my columns for Bilkent News, I was making notes about many things that happened during my university years. And so, through the pieces I wrote,[Read More…]
