BEING A STUDENT AT METU

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.

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 According to Krishna in USA their work is a kind of teamwork, which she personally very likes to do. For Linxi, American schools offer more opportunities to practice than Ohio in which one has to get very high scores to be major. Both educationally and personally, studying in the US is good for them.

2)     In China, there are some programs providing information about schools in abroad and you can choose what do you want. Thus, Linxi could go to the US. Krishna has a grandfather who has been living there for 22 years and one of his friends graduated from Ohio advised her to go there.

4)    America seems to Arata quite different. First, there are smaller classes in which communication among other members of ONU is easy. And in his own country, students can take one major program at once which is unlike to America .Secondly, according to Arata’s observations, Americans re more outgoing and social. Krishna likes the flexibility of Ohio’s education system. To her, one can do much more things besides studying his degree. For these reasons now she has a new goal in her life. For Linxi, one of the differences is the using of dry machines. In China, her home country, they put out line out to dry, so this is unfamiliar to her. Generally, they like American culture.

6)      To study in the US, you need to pay for about 30.000 dollars per year. But it can change according to one’s school, lesson terms etc.

8)    Americans are used to wear short even in winter or drinking too much coffee which are different to them.      Of course they have. At the beginning they felt confused and surprised. But according to Krishna it is quite normal to feel like that. Because it is totally an unknown place for them. Once, I had a thought about going abroad and even studying in Canada. I made some researches and liked Toronto University very much. The reason why I wanted Canada rather than America is that Canada is less crowded and like a world just for students. It is also easier to make ends meet than America. These are good sides of America. There are also challenges of being at north. Coldness is a big problem for me. Maybe it would be great to study abroad but my university METU is an international association and I’m so happy.