Hello everyone. Another day spent tired and far from productive, and since I cannot seem to fall asleep either, I thought I might as well write something random. There is something about myself that I have been thinking about a lot lately: my productivity has dropped quite seriously over the past one or two years. On top of that, I no longer feel particularly idealistic either. I think I used to be much more inclined to choose the difficult option — the difficult and, in my m

Picking up from where we left off. I have now completed my roughly one week-long Upper Rhine Graben field trip. So far, it has been the field trip I enjoyed the most. In general, I still find the geology of Turkey much more interesting. In terms of diversity and preservation, it is on a completely different level. Even just around Ankara, there are places where you can see practically everything you would cover in an entire year of an introductory geology textbook, and even m

Hello. I came to Turkey again, and once again I got sick... For some reason, I get sick almost every time I come to Turkey. I suppose it has something to do with the change in climate. In general, I am someone who gets sick very easily anyway. Whether it is a viral or bacterial infection, I seem to be absurdly sensitive to everything. I constantly get fevers, catch the flu, mess up my digestive system, and so on. I will not even get started on the allergies. I have an unbelie