Living on Çubuk Kraker in the Bilkent Social Sciences Building: A Constructivist Approach
So Ale told me this was unlikely to be funny to anyone who hasn't suffered our pain but I still wanted to share...
After spending the past two or so weeks, which included days like Christmas Eve, basically living in this office eating only Çubuk Kraker (that's a really gross Turkish light cracker, which has no taste but little less calories than all the other very rich sweets around here), drinking Diet Pepsi and showering only occassionaly cause I had no time to go home at all, I am completly exhausted. I feel like I have absorbed all the knowledge that Turkish universities teach in the undergraduate education in the past few days. I became a liberal, occassionally even realist, feminist, almost vegetarian and finally constructivist... Although I am not sure if we ourselves really contruct the reality, others do, unneccessarily too harsh reality, but I still haven't found out how to escape the one that has been constructed for me, although figuring that out is a never-ending quest of a constructivist... Anyway after I go home and get some sleep I will be amazingly happy cause I actually made it through this, finished all that had to be finished, I am done with half of my classes and about to start a break during which I will make up for the missed Christmas, family time, privacy and the time with my dear Andy
So after all maybe the reality is OK, although perhaps I shouldn't live just in my own satisfied world and start changing things by, for example, becoming a vegetarian...
One more thing to almost becoming a vegetarian: I have been sent some articles to read for fun in between my studies by my friendly neighbor across the hallway who has shared the pain of the past few weeks with me (thank you for being there Ale!) and is quite environmentally aware, here is one: http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142
This article is very sad and serious and really makes one think but I had to laugh finding myself among the few percent who state that their reason for being vegetarian is economic...
After spending the past two or so weeks, which included days like Christmas Eve, basically living in this office eating only Çubuk Kraker (that's a really gross Turkish light cracker, which has no taste but little less calories than all the other very rich sweets around here), drinking Diet Pepsi and showering only occassionaly cause I had no time to go home at all, I am completly exhausted. I feel like I have absorbed all the knowledge that Turkish universities teach in the undergraduate education in the past few days. I became a liberal, occassionally even realist, feminist, almost vegetarian and finally constructivist... Although I am not sure if we ourselves really contruct the reality, others do, unneccessarily too harsh reality, but I still haven't found out how to escape the one that has been constructed for me, although figuring that out is a never-ending quest of a constructivist... Anyway after I go home and get some sleep I will be amazingly happy cause I actually made it through this, finished all that had to be finished, I am done with half of my classes and about to start a break during which I will make up for the missed Christmas, family time, privacy and the time with my dear Andy
So after all maybe the reality is OK, although perhaps I shouldn't live just in my own satisfied world and start changing things by, for example, becoming a vegetarian...
One more thing to almost becoming a vegetarian: I have been sent some articles to read for fun in between my studies by my friendly neighbor across the hallway who has shared the pain of the past few weeks with me (thank you for being there Ale!) and is quite environmentally aware, here is one: http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142
This article is very sad and serious and really makes one think but I had to laugh finding myself among the few percent who state that their reason for being vegetarian is economic...
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