Useful Apps For Students :)

Hello everyone! :)

My first week at the collage has gone! :) And honestly, I can say that it wasn't as easy as I thought before.
I believed that I won't need to study at least in the first week but no! I studied everyday and I had to do that because if I didn't, I couldn't control all the stuff that I have to learn!
So, it was a kind of tiring week but not very bad :)

After a summary of this week, let's talk about the apps I use :)!

Firstly, I want to introduce you : SCRIBD! 
Scribd is the world's biggest online library that all the students can use and reach via an App. In this library, I can find all the documents and books about my classes and I believe that you can find everything about any kind of stuff! :) In addition, it can be used for all papers and homeworks at the collage easily. And, it is free!

Second App I want to talk about is : MATHWAY!
Mathway is an App which can be used for all mathematical problems and algebras in Math Classes! It can solve a lot of problem step by step for you and show all the formulas that we have to remember all the time in Math Classes! So, especially the students who get a scientific education can use this app all the time and everywhere! Take a look at it!

Next App is a time controller in a different way: FOREST!
Maybe, you've heard about Forest but I want to explain it, too. Because it is the App which I use the most! Forest, as I told before, is a time controller App but it is more useful than others, I think.
The App gives you a little place to built your own forest and if you want to have trees you have to study in particular times. For example, if you study for 30 minutes you can get a little tree for your forest but you have to do nothing with your phone during these 30 minutes. Because, if you close the App it stops and you have to begin from the start! So, you can't do anything during this time with your phone and you have to control yourself! It is completely useful! :) Let's create your own forests! :)

The other App I want to explain is : The CRG
If you are in a scientific department at the collage, this App is completely useful for your Chemistry lessons! Because with this App, you can see and study all the chemical reactions that you have to remember for your exams! You can study with that and learn all the reactions every time everywhere!

If you want to learn something different : KHAN ACADEMY
I believe that most of you know about Khan Academy! Normally, it is a website which can be used for learning about every topic online via readings and videos! And this website has an App now, too. So you can read all the stuff that you want to know about and follow different lessons with your mobile phone! Try it! It is completely useful! :)

The last App I use very often is: PL@ANTNET
As you can see on its name, it is a biology App which can be used by every biologist and molecular biologist! By using this App, I can learn everything about all the plants around me! What I mean is, I take a picture of a plant that I see in the road and search on this App's database. And than, it shows me the latin name of this plant and everything technically about it! I really love this App, Because after I started to use it, I've learned very interesting things about a lot of different plants! :) So you can try it even if you just want to read about your flowers in your house! :)


Yes, this is the end of my post but the beginning of a new week! :) I hope that your week will completely perfect for you!! :)

I will share you what I plan for this week in my next post! :) So, see you then!

LOVE YOU <3

First Day At the University!

Hello everyone!

Yesterday was my first day at the college and it was completely awesome! :)
Actually, I was a little bit nervous because that was the first time that I listen everything in English during a class.
In addition to that, my first class was Physics! Completely HORROR for me!
However, to be honest, It wasn't so bad. In fact, It was interesting in some ways :)

First of all, I felt amazing, when I came to class. There were a lot of people who are the same department with me! :) And I really liked them :)
That's cool, because I was nervous about that,too : What if I wouldn't like my classmates?! But, they were actually very cool! I liked them! :) <3

During the class, I took my notes in English and taking English notes was not horrible as much as I expect! Yeah, sometimes I couldn't understand every words that the professor said, but not important! I understood the topic!

After the class, I bought my first university book from Bookstore : Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics --> Serway/Jawett

I have not viewed in it deeply, yet. But, I rewrote my class notes clearly, after the class.
So, before the exam, I won't have to write study notes again! :) If I can do it daily during the semester, it will be perfect and completely easy for me to study for anything! I hope I can! :)

This post will be a diary for this time. But after that post, as I mentioned before this post, I'll share the useful Apps that I use regularly, with you! :)

So, SEE YOU SOON! :)
Take care of yourselves! :)

LOVE YOU! :) <3

Which Websites Can We Use? :)

Hi everyone! :)

Today I will share with you some websites that we can use during our college time and most of them are really very useful for us :)

Yesterday, I made a huge investigation to find different useful websites that can be helpful for learning something easily or finding something about or for my future tasks at the college.

So, here are the results:

• Google Calendar: I know that you think Google Calendar is a typical online calendar that everybody can use. But these website, actually, can be very helpful to organize our tasks, meetings, jobs and classes etc. Distinctly from other typical calendars, Google Calendar is completely trusty and it can be synchronized with a lot of different websites and apps which had produces by Google, too. So, it is more useful and more helpful that you think! Look at it for once and try, than you will see the difference :)  

• Wolfram Alpha: Wolfram Alpha is  "a computational knowledge engine" that can calculate  every single basic math problems that you have to solve! Step by step, you can see the solutions of problems and it is very very helpful when you cannot understand something during the class. In addition to that, you can ask and search in different topics like biology, chemistry and astronomy etc.  Here is the link!

• Lynda: Lynda is a perfect website for learning something new from video courses! It is like an extensive video library that can be very effective to learn something and to gain different skills easily. Mostly, you can learn different skills centered around computing and media production. Normally, you have to pay for using the website. However, its free trial is not very short - 10 days- So, you can try and use it for free! :)  Here is it! :)

• Stack Exchange: If you have questions about different topics like biology, chemistry, programming etc. , Stack Exchange can find a great solution for you. This website is a collection of question and answer communities. So, if you have a question, you can find the solution most likely on this website!  Let's Try It! :)

• Sleepyti.me: This website is very simple but can be useful for some of us. Because it uses the sciences of REM cycles to calculate the optimal time that you should go to bed to feel good and well-rested in the morning! :) I like it and want to try during this week! You can try, too. Here!

• Coggle: Coggle is a mind-mapping tool that can be used for learning and teaching something in a clear way. Actually, it is not very easy to explain it with words, so you can watch this short video to understand it easily. And here is the website!

• Cheatography: As you can understand from the name of the website, Cheatography is a website that collects all the cheat sheets about any topic. So, you can find some brief information about your classes and can be useful for other things, too ;) So Let's Try It! :)

So, these are the websites that I find helpful for college in some ways. And most of them have their Apps for mobile phones,too. That means, you can use them easily and regularly if you like and want! 

I hope they will be beneficial for you,too. 

In the next post, I'll share with you some different Apps about studying and biology itself that I always use :) 

Until the next time, Have a nice Week!

See you soon! :)

LOVE YOU <3

Having A Habit Tracker! :)

Hi everyone! :)

I hope, you have a nice weekend! :)
Today I'll share my habit tracker for my first month of college year with you!
But first, what is a habit tracker?

If you're a planned living person like me, I believe that you plan everything in your lives. But I mean really EVERYTHING! For example, besides your homework, tasks and meetings, you also plan your free times and daily habits, too.
What I mean with daily habits are actually very simple things like drinking enough water, reading enough pages everyday and writing a diary regularly etc.

So, a habit tracker helps you to organize your simple and daily needs :) And of course, you can use that for forming a new habit into your lives.

For example, if you want to make yoga for at least 30 minutes everyday. You can write that to your habit tracker.

And than, in a long period of time you can mark the days on which you make yoga 30 minutes or more. So, after a month, you will be able to see and control your steps and you can see how many time you make yoga etc.
For me, it is usually supportive to do what I planned before. Because at the end of the month, I don't want to see what I didn't do. And I feel more comfortable and more proud when I mark something that I did! :)

At the end of the post, you can see how I made my habit tracker and you can search on Pinterest for different ideas,too. I believe you will get inspired! :) So, if you want to form a new habit or only want to organize your daily habits, you can easily use a habit tracker to motivate yourselves!

And here is my own Habit Tracker! :) Let's make one for yourself,too! :) It will surely work!!

Have A Nice Week! :)
See you soon! :)

LOVE YOU <3

What I've Been Planning for My Future? What I've done and will be doing?

As I said in my first post, being a successful molecular biology and genetics student has been  my dream since I began to high school.

Because of that, I've been planning my future for a long time.

Since I decided to be a part of this department, 

*First of all, I learned German and English in high school. Because I've thought if I want to have a successful academic career in the future, I have to be able to speak three or more languages fluently.
As a result, I wish to learn one more language during my university years :)

*After that, I chose a university in which I can learn all subjects in English. Because it is real that English is the most common language for most science departments all around the world. So, all my classes will be in English this year!
Honestly, it is a little bit scary for me, because i never can be completely sure that I'm ready to listen all the things in English all the time. And I always think about, what if I cannot or don't understand something because of English?
So, I hope that I can get used to that in a short span of time. And I also hope, this blog will be useful for my development in English, too.

* In addition to learn different languages, to get a successful academic career I completely believe that I won't be a geek student during these years. So, of co
urse, I have to study for having a great GPA, but GPA is not always enough for being a successful student. On the contrary, I have to improve myself in different areas but classes, too.
For instance, being a member of a club and having different hobbies can work for that. For myself, I chose to be a member of our Debate Society and our Science Club at the university. And I really got a lot of perfect friends and different skills from these clubs :)
In addition to that, reading, photography, cooking and handmade crafting are my hobbies! :) And of course, this blog will be one of them, too :)

*Besides the hobbies and different languages, I believe that extra courses can be useful for getting different experiences,too. Last year I took a course for C, C++ Programming and Graph Theory. Because it is obvious that during and after the college I always need to be able to understand coding and programming for my job. As a result, I tried to learn at least the beginning of coding etc.
That was very helpful but I wish and plan to improve that in this year,too :)
And than, in my country there are some open universities in which students don't have to take classes but learn everything at home from books,video classes etc. and than take exams like other universities to get a GPA.
In this year, I've begun to study "Management" from one of these universities, too. It will be like taking a course for business i think. And after 4 years I can get a second university diploma! Yey!
I wish that it will be useful for my career,too.

After all these things, the first school year of mine begins on this Monday! And I'm very excited! :)

> As a habit, I always live planned, so I bought an agenda for myself and I've been making a study journal for this year.
About this study journal, I will post a different text,too.
So, maybe you like it and want to use it, too.
>And I believe that having a peaceful study place is very important to be successful. So, I bought and did myself different kind of stuffs which make me happy and get concentrated.
(You can see my desk on the picture :) )

In addition to that, I think that different websites, apps, note taking skills and study programs etc. are very helpful for a college year. So, after that post, I will write about

• Useful study types
• Practical apps and websites for students
• Note taking methods
• Having an agenda and study journal
• Having a habit tracker
• Having a peaceful study place and how can we have that
• Different Youtube channels for all kind of sciences (mostly Biology of course)
• Pause and work controllers
• How can we keep important things in our mind easily?  ... etc.

Actually, writing about all these things will be very exciting for me, too. Because I will be learning during these times to :) 

So, we learn and read together, if you want to join me,too ! :)

In addition to these stuffs, naturally I'm going to share different videos and video explanations which I like and find useful, and my class notes, work notes and different papers about everything! :) 

So, we really learn, work, study and read everything together! :)

I wish you will enjoy with me, too :)

See you soon! Bye!

LOVE YOU :) <3

A Journal of A Molecular Biology Student :)

Hello everyone!

My name is Kumsal and I'm a first year Molecular Biology and Genetics student at Bogazici University in Turkey.

I'm 20 years old and I've been working for this since I've begun to high school and now here it is!
I'm very excited to be in this department and to learn new things about biology! And because of that, i want to share everything about that,too.

As a result,

Here is my first text of my online biology journal! :)
I hope that you'll enjoy reading my experiences and the things that I'll learn and I've learned.
I'll share all of my lab experiences, biology and chemistry news all around the world and my study plans everyday.

I hope that you'll enjoy as much as i do! :)

LOVE YOU! <3