Unfortunately, this blog entry will begin with some sad news. Prof. Mehmet Tekin Yürür, a retired professor of structural geology at Hacettepe University, sadly passed away two weeks ago. He retired after giving his last lecture, a structural geology course in the 2022 summer school that I also took. I have never met anyone who needed slides or other teaching materials so little. With just a marker, using his hands, relying solely on intuition and imagination, he was able to

Hey you, after two failed blog entry, here I am with my 3rd attempt to write the entry N.6. The other 2 failed because after a few lines it all became <depressionmaxxing>, because I was depressed maybe still am even though just a bit, though, there has been enormous improvement in this regard so I just wanted to share this a bit. Fe and Ferritin (those bastards) The last 7-8 months have been quite hard for me mentally, but the last few months -especially December, January, Fe

Unlike the summer of 2024, I hardly enjoy being in Germany this time. I always feel homesick and miss a lot of things back in Ankara. I miss my old room, the cozy corner with all the books and all the memories I had in there. I know it was only 4 years, and it was mostly sad and depressing, but still, I always felt so secure being in there. I was always enjoying my alone time; it was just the external stuff making me stressed all the time. Here I am, currently dealing with lo

Hi again, after a very long hiatus. "The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought...

I almost forgot that I had a blog... Many things happened in the past months; I didn't have the time to write anything down here but to...