JOURNAL 3

A university should have two main characteristics to be an “ideal” university. Firstly, an ideal university should provide the conditions supporting by free thought to students in order to improve themselves in academic manner. In other words, university education must involve all necessary information and methods which enhance and contribute to students’ qualities for their future business or academic studies. Also thanks to environment of free thought students, as being individuals, have ability of self-expression throughout their lives. This brings them in self-confidence during giving a speech or an employment interview. Secondly, an ideal university has to have facilities which enable students to reinforce their social skills. Social clubs are the most common ones of these, i.e. sport clubs and student societies. When these characteristics are considered, METU has both academic and social ones. For example, with METU Library’s advanced written sources, anyone can reach any information in various areas and can enhance her/his academic achievement constantly. And also its academic staff has an important role in quality of METU. Thanks to instructors’ advanced knowledge about their fields and effective methods, students can fill their deficiency of knowledge by questioning and investigating with academic help about any subject and receive perfect education consequently. About social facilities at METU, the student societies and groups organizes various cultural, sports and art events like concerts, exhibitions, performances and conferences every year. Also METU has a great number and a great variety of students clubs-societies, sports clubs and sports teams which provide students with opportunity to improve themselves in any of these. To sum up, METU is the most suitable one to the criteria that I have set for an ideal university and studying at this university will be the best investment to my future undoubtedly.