Last Month of 2016 🎄🎁

Hello everyone :)

We are at the end of a huge year and I'm really excited about the next one!

However, I believe that if you don't write a summary of a year, you cannot be prepared for the next one as much as you need! Because, it is obvious that people like to see and read what they could do and what they achieved in last year before they say "GOOD BYE!" to that and they can actually feel stronger when they see that they can do what ever they want if they want it ENOUGH!

And it works for me,too! As a result, here is my summary of 2016! :)

To be honest, this year was a productive year for me. I gained new skills and new hobbies, I got new friends and met a lot of perfect people in different parts of the year.

At the beginning of this year, I was in prep class and all I need to study was English! As a result, I could gain different skills during a semester. I had enough time to do something new! So, I could be an active member of our debate society! :) I could attend 6 or 7 tournaments and during these tournaments I met a lot of different people from different universities and got a lot of amazing friends! :)

In addition to that, I learned C and C++ Programming in this year. I joined in a class in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and I spent my free time to learn something new about computational biology! :) It was really entertaining and made a lot of fun! In addition, at the end of the semester, I made a project about protein interactions in different species and I learned so much about how should I prepare a project! It was perfect for me!

After that, I passed my proficiency test successfully! And this was very important for me, too ; because I really couldn't write or talk English more than some easy sentences! As a result, it is a success for me,too! :) And just before the test, we went our summer house in Bozcaada with my family for 4 days! :) It was a crazy and unplanned trip! However, it was completely amazing and relaxing!:)

After the second semester, my summer holiday was enough perfect for me,too. At the beginning, we organized a debate tournament in our Kilyos Campus (it is near the sea and perfect for a summer holiday!). It was really amazing and we spent great time together! :) After that, I went to Şile with my family to my uncles summer house! I was with my cousins and it was great,too.

In addition to that, I spent a lot of time with my best friends from my high school, because during the semester they weren't in Istanbul. One of them was in Germany, one of them was in Ankara and the other one was in Istanbul but we couldn't spend much time together because of our businesses! :D As a result, summer was a great opportunity for spending time together :)

At the beginning of this summer, we planned with my boyfriend to go on a vacation, However, we couldn't go :( Because his aunt and my brother got married in this summer! But we made some double dating stuffs with our friends, planned different things and could spend our summer holiday together perfect,too :D <3 :)

In addition to that, in summer I tried to join a Neurobiology Lab in Bahçeşehir University an for this purpose I made some very serious conversation first time in my life with different people. It was a successful meeting but the laboratory couldn't be opened, so I couldn't join to lab but; especially in this semester, I learned a lot from the professor in Bahçeşehir University. So, being able to meet him was a opportunity,too.

At the end of the summer, I made my very first class program in this year and it was completely excited! :D Even though, I didn't have any elective courses, it was something new :D

And than, this semester has begun!

To be honest, this semester was not perfect as I expected before, because the stuffs we learned were not very interesting as I wrote in another post and as a first year student, they were not easy,too!! As a result, I got some problems psychologically :( But I'm better now! :)

Besides the classes, I learned to play Bridge and joined the Bridge Club in this year and I found it really joyful! At the beginning, I just wanted to try how it works because my boyfriend loves this game! :) But now, I really love it,too. It's like chess with cards and makes me feel clever :D In addition, I believe it will be good for my CV and PhD application for universities in different countries in the future :)

As a success in this semester, I can say my lab attendance,too! In January, I'll begin to work in our "Cancer and Cell Regulation" Lab in our university and as a first year student, it is really an amazing chance for me!!! I'm very excited about that :)

So, this is my 2016! :) Of course I had bad things during the year,too.We all had them. But these are not important and talking about the good stuffs is always better! :)

I hope 2017 will be great as much as 2016 for all of us :)

Actually, writing all theses things makes me feel really better and you should try that,too! :) It is a good way to say good bye to 2016 :) LET'S TRY IT! :) MAKE YOUR OWN SUMMARY WITH PHOTOS :)

HAVE A NICE LAST MONTH :) <3

LOVE YOU! :) <3



Kumsal