By İrem Naz Duymuş (AMER/III) & Eda Emekoğlu (AMER/III) The Art of Healing Cracks Is Ankara a feeling? I believe it is. When you move to a new city and start from scratch, it welcomes you in its own peculiar way. At first, you chase the clichés—visiting the popular spots, testing the stereotypes handed to you by others and perhaps by your past[Read More…]
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…]
