I was graduated from Zonguldak Anatolian Teachers High School. Normally, high school students in metropolitan feel the difference when starting to go to university. But, in small cities, like Zonguldak, students, like me, feel a great amount of difference. Because, living standards as well as high level education become quite unfamiliar to them. So the first year, especially the first term is called as adaptation process. Every student has this process: some of them orientates easily while other part of them has difficulty in adapting.
At first, students prefer other cities. Because at those ages people love freedom and living apart from their own town or their parents affect them. Although I stayed in dormitory in high school and got used to live apart from my family, I couldn’t see the challenges of living alone.
High school is quite different from university. The responsibilities are bigger. You are on your own all the time and your safety is in your hands. So it can be said like that: university is a place which you learn about real life in. Thus, METU is the right university for me. It is located in neither a crowded and complicated city like İstanbul nor a city which has less facility than it. Besides its educational quality, METU’s social activities help me to adjust and made it easy to spend my years in METU.
