JOURNAL ENTRY 3


                               WHAT IS AN IDEAL UNIVERSITY LIKE ?  

    An ideal university should include some basic properties. First of all, the campus of a university should be verdant not barren and have a capasity to meet its students' necessities. Besides them, the buildings in campus should be neat and aesthetic. Also, the design of the school should express a sense of comfort to its students and create such a sincere atmosphere that students feel as if they were at their homes. If so, students easily get used to the school. Secondly, it should provide its students with some basic facilities. For instance, it should have decent dormitories with a capasity to accommodate all students, and a sufficient number of laboratory where students can easily access the internet, make research and do their homework or project, a good library in which students can study their courses, and wireless internet with which students can access the internet on the campus whenever they want. Thirdly, academic staff of a university should be very sufficient and effective on students, and also it should provide a good and international education to its students. Moreover, it should be a world-class university and have a lot of worldwide success.As for whether metü is an ideal university or not, i am of the opinion that metü is an ideal university in every aspect. It fits all of these criteria i mentioned above and even exceed these standarts.

 JOURNAL ENTRY 2 
                
                                BEİNG A STUDENT AT METU

      Being a student at Metu causes its students to perceive themselves as priviliged because there is no doubt that Metü is the best university of Turkey and ranks as one of the top 250 universities of the world. Metu attends lots of worldwide competitions every year and gain a lot of worlwide success and prestige, especially in engineering. Moreover, its instructors are of very high quality as they are elected people. It is not easy to become an instructor at Metu and because of this, only those who are competent in their field can teach at metu. Besides, Metu provides a superb educational environment for its students and gives a very good education to them. Therefore, studying at Metu is a concessionary and a source of pride.

      I am glad being at Metu in many ways. Firstly, Metu is a really good university in terms of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook and the education provided us at Metü is really high in quality. Secondly,its campus was built on such a large area that everthing students need is available on the campus; thus, there is no need to go outside to buy something or meet our own necessities. Moreover, the friendships formed in this campus environment are worth living.There are lots of students' communities or teams and they are open to anyone who want to participate in. To be socialize and make friends, these groups can be very effective and i am of the opinion that a person understands to be studying in a university when he/she becomes to socialize. Thirdly, i am happy because being a student at Metu means learning to stand on its own feet as an individual since Metu gives its students a sense of responsibility in every field by forcing them to make everything by themselves such as registration, taking courses or following assignments. Everybody learns being responsible for the things they do themselves from the courses they take to various activities they engage in. Moreover, there is such an infinite respect at Metu that nobody intereferes in others' works and judges the others for anything. That is to say, Metu teachs to be free but responsible while doing something, which makes students into adults in a sense.

      In addition to its all positive aspects, to studying at Metü is somewhat challenging for its students. The most challenging thing is that unlike other üniversities in Turkey, the language of instruction is English at Metü and those who are not sufficient in English have to study in preparatory school in their first year at Metü to improve their English. However, even if they achieve to pass proficiency exam, they have difficulty in their departments in later years because of English. Although my department is English Language Teaching, i even have hard times in some courses. As for how i cope with this, i can say that i try to do more exercises on English in every part. Another point is that there is a huge burden for students about increased academic demands on the ground that the students are expected to do lots of homeworks, lots of research and lots of study. As a solution to this, i plan to make a schedule about how i can deal with this burden. 

      To sum up, being at metü can be both a concessionary and challenging for its students.

JOURNAL ENTRY 1

                                      Pakistan Darra Adam Khel market bombing 'kills 15'

At least 15 people       have been killed   and   up to 30 wounded                            Noun Phrase                  Verb Phrase               Prepositional Phrase                                                                    in a car bomb attack on a market in north-west Pakistan, local security officials say.     Prepositional Phrase                                                             Subject   Transitive Verb    Some reports said a suicide attacker detonated the bomb in the town of Darra Adam Khel  near the Khyber tribal area.                        Direct Object          Proper Noun
       Place Adverb                        

It was apparently aimed at a pro-government militia set up to fight the Taliban, local security officials said.                               Common Noun                            Noun Phrase

Some of the wounded were being taken to hospitals in other towns, because local facilities could not cope. Verb Phrase                                             Dependent Clause

Some were being taken to Peshawar, about half-an-hour's drive to the north.                                                                                             Independent Clause                       Place Adverb       

Arms bazaar

Officials said no group had claimed responsibility for the bombing, but previous attacks in the area have been blamed on the Taliban.

President Asif Ali Zardari        strongly              condemned       the blast.                                                                                                Subject                              Adverb of Manner  Transitive Verb  Direct Object                  In a condolence message he said the incident showed that extremists had no regard for human life.                                                                          Plural Noun

The blast occurred       outside the office of the local "peace committee"                                                   Intransitive Verb            Place Adverb                                                                                                                  - a group of militants who used to fight with the Taliban but switched sides and now support local elders and the government. Interrogative Pronoun           Time Adverb

At least 20 nearby shops were also badly damaged in the explosion, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported.  Independent Clause

It                                  was not            immediately        clear                                                                                           Personal Pronoun   State Verb         Time Adverb    Adjective                                                                            how many of the victims were members of the peace committe                                                                                                                                                                                and how many were local people  going about their shopping  on a Saturday morning,        State Verb                                        Participle Phrase                   Prepositional Phrase                                local government official Fakhar-ud-Din         told                  the AFP news agency.                                                                                      Subject                                                        Transitive Verb         Direct Object                                

Darra Adam Khel is a small         town                                                                                             Adjective                                 Common Noun                                                                                                     on the edge of the ethnic Pashtun tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan 

The government has fought       a long campaign to bring the region,
                          Action Verb      Singular Noun                                                                                                              which is a haven for militant groups, under its control.                                                                       Dependent Clause

Darra Adam Khel has been a centre for arms trading, with locally made weapons on sale openly at stalls in the town. İndependent Clause

A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the town two years ago killed more than 70 people.   Singular Noun   Common Noun           Plural Noun  Action Verb

Prayers were held in schools across Pakistan on Saturday for a young victim of the                Action Verb                                  Proper Noun                                                                                                      Taliban,14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who was shot this week in the Swat Valley.                                                                                                                Noun                                                                                                      Proper Noun

The girl,         who had campaigned for the right to an education,                                                                                                                        Noun Phrase       Dependent Clause                                                                                                                                     was picked out by name by an armed man on a bus, and shot in the head.

A military spokesman  said      she      was still on a ventilator in hospital  on                         Singular Noun        Personal Pronoun  State Verb                                                                                               Saturday and that the next 36 to 48 hours     would be critical.                                                                                                                                         
Plural Noun                                                      Adjective