Our Students Come Together With Honorable People at NUN Career Meetings

Our Students Come Together With Honorable People at NUN Career Meetings 

As NUN Schools, we plan our students' careers and we attach a great importance to inform them about what is waiting for them beyond their education at our schools. Since the very moment we started our distance-learning program, we have organized “My career in 45 Minutes” which aimed at bringing our students together with honorable people who receive education or work abroad and can be a role model for our students. Our students meet honorable people from abroad on the online platform and gather information on various topics from opportunities to study abroad to career advises. Our students shape their career with valuable advises they have from the role models.

Ahsen Utku, North Eastern University, participated in our meeting and supported our students’ efforts in social responsibility projects by saying “Social responsibility and extracurricular activities pose great importance in terms of acceptance to bachelors, masters or doctoral studies abroad.” Polen Koçak, Harvard & Mit, said, “I spend every summer holiday doing internship in different fields during my university education. This guided me through shaping my career.” and she commended our school for the experience programs we started last year. Koçak, encouraged our students to study abroad by her words “No one believed me when I said I will go to Harvard in the last year of my university. I read the researches of all Professors at Harvard to be able to do a PhD. Then I found the fields that suit me and sent e-mail to 393 Professors. One of them replied and accepted me in.”

Oxford University student Yusuf İkbal Oldaç said, “I worked hard to make it to Boğaziçi University. I was so attached by a professor invited to my university as a speaker in my last year. His expertise was educational leadership I said I should work on this field as well. I changed the direction of my career. I set goals for myself. I applied to the US. I could not get any scholarship, nor acceptance. Failures in life are inevitable. I accepted this as a fact and carried on my way. I was not accepted to a university in the US, but I was accepted to METU, where I completed my Master's degree on educational leadership. My professor at METU offered me a small job to conduct surveys. I did not underestimate that task and did my best. I started to make TUBITAK projects. Then, I was involved in larger ones.” he emphasized once again that we should never give up on our dream due to failures. 

Hüseyin Şen, lecturer at Utrecht University said, “I was always interested in aircrafts. So I was dreaming about being a pilot or an aircraft engineer. However, I also had curiosity towards science. Later, my interest in the history of Islamic science aroused. The department I am currently doing my PhD is the history of Islamic science, but it is linked to the Mathematics Institute. In fact, science, history and math are inseparable. All are linked areas. It has to have a serious math background to analyze these works… My PhD thesis advisor speaks 10 languages. Language and numerical knowledge are very important for the history of science. It is said that Fuat Sezgin speaks 27 languages.” he once again emphasized the importance of learning foreign languages. Furkan Eris, Boston University, also informed our students about the opportunities to study and live abroad.

Our activities will continue with participation of other valuable Turkish scientists abroad. Gaining valuable knowledge through “My career in 45 minutes” meetings, our students have already started to work on their careers abroad.