JUST MY IMAGINATION

3 dk okuma süresi Geçen sene yeni yıla kardeşimle birlikte, hastanede hastalara ve nöbetçi sağlık çalışanlarına çikolata  dağıtarak girmiştik. Aslında yıl, pandemi öncesinde de bizim için hüzünlü başlamıştı.  2020 pek çoğumuzun, tekrar hatırlamamak üzere hayatından çıkarmak istediği bir yıl oldu. Dünya çapında ve kişisel yaşantılarımızda sayısız acıya şahitlik ettik, çok fazla insanı kaybettik ve evlerimize kapandık. Kendi açımdan baktığımda ise kayıpların yanında kazanımlarımın da olduğunu gördüğüm bir yıl oldu. Bu yazıyı ilerde dönüp geçmişe baktığımda bu yılda yaptıklarımı hatırlayabilmek adına yazıyorum. Bu senenin en büyük kazanımı benim için şüphesiz, covide yakalanmadan ve akıl sağlığımı da elimden geldiğince koruyarak geçirmek oldu. Bu yıl olan diğer güzel şeyler: dünyalar tatlısı iki yeğenimin gün be gün gelişimine şahitlik ettim, pandemi öncesi birkaç şehir gezdim, Kapadokya'da enfes zaman geçirdim ve bunca sene gitmediğime pişman oldum, onlarca dizi ve film izle...

-7 min read- (includes spoiler)  Seven whole season and four revival episodes, all have finished last night. Before going into this piece, let me say, I adore the Gilmore Girls. I love it, I will rewatch it, and I even dare to say it is almost as good as HIMYM. I needed to clarify this because once I get into the writing, I criticize too much and people get this wrong idea that I hate it. But the truth is just the opposite. Stars Hollow In omnia paratus! Nope, it is not some spell from the Harry Potter. It means, “prepared for all things”. Comes from that creepy club called “the life and death brigade” that runs Logan and his friends. But I think it was not just that. In omnia paratus pretty much summarizes the whole series. Everything runs so fast, everyone is in the everywhere, there’s always hustle and bustle and it seems like people were really ready to do anything, anytime. Gilmore girls are a mother and daughter, living in a little town called Stars Hollow, where pe...

It has been two months since I started my PhD. Well two-ish. So why did I put a title called two-months report? Because I should’ve written this blog post a week ago when it was actually two months. PhD is teaching me something new every single day. It is teaching me that all the knowledge I learned till this very day was just the tip of the iceberg. There is a whole bunch hidden under the sea. There's so much out there to learn. I am telling myself these words every single day: man, I need to study more. But it's not just that. I always thought PhD consist of reading and writing. Well, that's easy: I love reading and I love writing. So what’s to worry? I just never realized that I was skipping whole thinking part. And yes, that thinking process is pretty much the core of your PhD. You have to build a project, like from the zero. And you have to choose every brick very carefully. I have never thought it’s gonna be this difficult. I was a very creative kid. But, not ...