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