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Since I came because of my master course, let's talk about education. Basically the feeling is that everyone is putting a lot of effort and time, having a lot of pressure to achieve low standard results. Not only in my experience, but also others. Well mostly Erasmus students are just having vacation and fun in the exchange semester, but here it's giving tons of quests, exams, and homeworkIf these things help, at least it's acceptable, but it’s not

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Here I’ll just stay with my personal situation first
Wednesday morning: research seminar 
This class is on the purpose of setting the basis of the Master thesis, the literature part. The content is teaching a book called “how to do a social research “Well it’s acceptable to learn that, but again, it’s just basic 101 information, very general When in a master program, the form, the structure, the content and plagiarism should be taught clearly and be required But it’s not. And since there is a very wide range of usage of social research, the topics are also depends on each students own instructor. So the function of this course is just to let us create the first proposal. But nothing is regulated or defined. It’s worse than my bachelor reports. 
And for the performance 
The teacher sometimes cancels class and once even when everyone is already in the classroom waiting She just said:5 minutes.  In WhatsApp, another 30 passed :Another 10Eventually class cancelled. And the classmates attendance was also low, once even  only me came to class alone

And for instructing, four of us have completely different topicsGis, Urban-rural Interface, regional Economy, sustainable development So it’s impossible to know them all and instructSo when not regulate the form, and no research direction instruction This class is only letting us looking for research question on our own. I can’t say it’s useless, even comparing to other courses, it helped. But the low standard is just unbelievable 
And one funny thing : the teacher has one habitWhen she thinks, she kept her mouth open and generates an Aaaaaaa sound, Can up to one minute. 
Thursday morning: regional economics and development 
At first I thought he is a professor who really teach something empirical. 
But after the syllabus is changed, the whole class is awful. 
There's just not enough time to produce one quality report, and also the professor is not looking for one.

But today its finally finished, I gave myself only 30 out of 100

This atmosphere of losing motivation is among all the people in all departments and I have not idea why, I even stopped my exercising habit

For the afternoon, planning theory.

I just found that the professor is a doctor of philosophy, no wonder I understand nothing

tons of reading every week, but I still read them all

the way is to let 2~3 students present, and mostly it's just collages of the sentences of the readings, and they just read it
And its always too long, the teacher never explain much and want us to feel by our self
well, I really don't see anything out of the history of planning in US
All the theories, it was worse than geography
We are debating if we are science, and this is just social science and Utopian versus developer
All the questions lead to unknown.

The final exam was made easy for the teacher didn't know if we understand or not
good call, because I don't know a thing

And the last class is GIS, it is slow.

Every Friday from 10~16, just pure nothing, it could be done in one hour for me

It introduced ESRI story map, arcgis pro, online and the license is useful

And I gave a lesson for spatial data mining

The worst thing is that so many times it cancelled first time at 12.30 am

so I check every Friday before I leave

and then it happened that he cancelled at 10, 30 minutes before the class start

Well it's worse for others from Izmir, just two hours for nothing going in the horrible bus.

To conclude, the semester here asked a lot from the students but the quality is not regulated

And all the universities are so busy that all people are overwhelmed by it

For me? I kind of managed them well, too much time in the Urla with no wind