New Years!

So... Here I am writing here again and this is the 1st blog of the year 2009! how special is that?:)

I surprised my parents and went back home to Izmir, on saturday(the saturday before new years) and I taped them seeing me on the street in Alsancak. It was so hillarious! I love doing surprises and making the people i love happy! So i was so excited about this surprise trip to hometown. I stayed in Izmir till tuesday, the 30th and took the plane back to Istanbul on the night of 30th. I came back just because I had classes on wednesday, the 31st. But as soon as I landed on Atatürk Airport, I received a call from Irem, telling me that there was no school tomorrow, so we didn't have communication together. It was a bomb, because i got my ticket just not to skip my classes on wednesday. But there is a saying in Turkish, "Hayırlısı Buymuş!", maybe something bad was gonna happen if I have stayed in Izmir.

The new years party was great. We were at a place with all my close friends. It actually was the first time that I was spending my time outside in the new years eve. What we usually do is, having a house party in a friend's house with 30 people and so. So it was quite an experience this year..

The idea of being in 2009 is so weird, I still feel like we are in 2006.

and next year is going to be a whole new DECADE 2010! 

Wow!

A Happy and a Busy Week:)

This week was such a fast week for me.

The first important thing about this past week was of course the Comm 101 essay! We were supposed to hand in our first drafts on wednesday at 9.30 am- and again it was very stressful especially after a long break:)

But no matter what- I did hand in my paper on time.

What I realized this week is that I really like the things we are doing for this class. For instance the topic is very intriguing, especially for us youngsters:)

We use the internet everyday, and "having a date" and "cheating" is a very daily thing for us students, so this class really attracts our attention- or i can say at least it does grab MY attention.

Audiobook was such an interesting experience also- cause i never listened to a book from the internet before.

Half an hour ago, I got out of my math midterm. I was very hopeless about it because i didnt go to any of the classes and i learned whats going to be on the exam last night. But a very close friend of mine helped me to figure out the matrices, limits and the derivatives. and it went all good:)

Now we'll go out to Taksim any celebrate it!

:)

Holiday

Wow- so here I am writing after a long break:)

I was really looking forward to this holiday, because school was really tough this past week, and i was thinking that I needed to get a rest. 

This Bayram Holiday was full of family times! Our aunts and cousins came from Istanbul and we were such a cheerful and a crowded family- but I liked it:)

I spent most of my time with the family and I had 2 nights to be with my friends, and of course that wasn't enough for us, since we had too much stuff to catch up with our lives.

I left Izmir on friday afternoon to go to Istanbul because we were planing on going to Nil Karaibrahimgil's Concert in Babylon but unfortunately it was canceled because her drummer has died. -you might have heard about it, he was İlhan Şeşen's son.

But we as the same group didnt give up and went to other places in Taksim and had a great weekend:)

Lets see how this week will go for me..

Week11

This week in our communication class, we received back our feedbacks and grades of our Essay1. We also got back other people's feedbacks about our podcasts. My essay grade disappointed me a bit, but it's OK since I now learned the parts which did wrong and hopefully I won't repeat the same mistakes in our Essay2. The school was really taugh this past week and also during the weekend because my midterms are approaching and so as the Comm101 stuff that we have to do for EVERY next class. Tomorrow I have a sociology midterm, so I better get on studying- and OH we have an essay exam tomorrow about the Love Online text in Comm101. Hopefully these two exams will go alright tomorrow!:)

Final Drafts Due

So.. Here is the review of this past week..

This week was probably the hardest week of all the communication class so far. Our Final draft was due to wednesday; so everyone was in a hurry of fixing everything and rearranging their ideas and paragraphs because Mr. O'Regan was so strict about his rules. He told us that he will not even accept the essay if he finds an error which we forgot to fix from the feedback that he has given us.

He sometimes stresses me out:)

So, I have finished writing and editing my essay on tuesday night; and of course I had a problem printing the essay again! My parents surprised me by getting me a MacBook last week, so the whole week I was busy with trying to discover the features of the computer. But I never thought that I would have a trouble while taking a print out. Everytime I was clicking on print; it was printing only the one fourth of the page but in a bigger font. So at 1 am, I gave call to a friend and he came and helped me to figure out what was wrong...

I think I have some very good friends:)

2007's Instructions

I have written my essay, submitted it to turnitin.com, took a print out of the essay and also the instruction page. When I came to class I was feeling comfortable, because I was thinking that I have done everything that I was supposed to be doing. 

But I could never imagine the sillyness that I did the other night. Accidentally, I opened the Instruction page for 2007 and wrote my whole essay following the 2007's instructions.!!! So I used quotations in every body paragraph and even in the introduction of the essay:)

Now I'm laughing because I have fixed everything, but at the time I learned what I have done, I was absolutely terrified!

I figured out that we were supposed to do paraphrasing instead of quoting. 

So I had to change a lot from my 1st Draft.

It was hard, but at least I have learned to be more careful when I'm looking at a instruction page:)

Week 8

This week in COMM101 class we were told that our 1st Drafts were do for next week- I think the article that Mr. O'Regan has given us was a bit confusing and difficult to understand. But I'll do my best in understanding the article:)

As the time goes on the classes get harder and harder . And especially the COMM101 class!

In the essay we are supposed to somehow criticize the techniques that Tom Tyler uses in order to be convincing about the claim that he's giving. After class, I went to my dorm and looked at CH5 in the handbook and couldn't actually found what I was looking for. It talks very briefly about the convincing techniques.

Lets see how I will do on my first draft...