Hello my Dearest Reader,
This might be my last post forever, I am not exactly sure. It all depends on which selectives I will take next year (It will be my last year in ELT soon, can you believe that? It feels like I started yesterday and also ages ago at the same time.) and if the selective AI course requires keeping a blog or not. I am not sure, I need to ask my lecturers.
But, I have to start by saying this: I LOVED writing to you, my Dear Reader! I started this blog in March 2025 and now we only have two days left till 2026! I spent most of the year yapping to you and it became a therapeutic habit of mine. I know this is only a student blog and I know only a couple of friends and my lecturers read my posts but… I don’t know, I loved sharing my creations with you. It didn’t matter how much anxiety the tasks gave me, how many assignments or presentations I had, or how exhausted I was during the exam weeks, I always enjoyed finishing up a task and yapping about it to you.
This blog will always stay as a time capsule of my time in Marmara ELT and I will come back to read these posts even years later, I am sure of it. Gökçe Hocam and Mustafa Hocam, thank you for making us keep blogs! You touched at least one student’s heart with it, and that was me, haha! Seriously, I loved it.
Ahem, okay, I gotta follow some instructions for this post, I kinda forgot, opps. Let’s talk about the Current Issues in Teaching course a little. I can say that I enjoyed the course generally (as you can guess from how emotional writing this post is making me) but I must admit that having due dates all the time is a stressful thing. Especially when those due dates correspond with other important due dates… which happened all the time. But it is definitely better than my other courses where we just read and read and read coursebooks all the time.
This course will stay with me for a long time and I will use the tools I learnt in this course in the very near future (I can’t wait to have actual students! haha).
To improve the course, I would suggest slightly more flexible deadlines. We really struggled with creating corpus-based teaching material due to the midterms.
To students who will take this course next year, your groupmates will determine your success AND the enjoyment in this course. Find some friends you work well with, stick with them, and enjoy! We played R.E.P.O when we were overwhelmed, haha. You gotta be on the same wavelength, otherwise this course can turn into a nightmare real quick. Good luck, babes!
And lastly, I want to link my last farewell post here. I don’t want to be redundant and go into “Awee, I was so depressed and now I am happy to be here!” talk again, but honestly, I am so happy that I am writing this post right now. (Just go and read, maybe it will make sense to you, maybe it won’t.)
Maybe for the last time,
Take care of yourself!
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