Erim Şaşal
Prep Class Student
Department of Software Engineering
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Funny, honest and positive.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
I do not really know, maybe rock music.
3. Cat or Dog?
Dog.
4. What are you most talented at?
Writing poems, using a computer, and playing football.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
I’d be a character in a comedy tv series like Friends because I love laughing so much.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
I do not have any tattoo. However, if I were to get one, it would be my sister’s name.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Invisibility, of course. I would do everything I want.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
I would go back to last March because I made codification mistakes in the university exam.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Sagittarius (November 22 –December 21)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Bugs Bunny.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Book: The little prince- Antaine de Saint- Exupery
Movie: Lord of the rings
Song: Train- drop of Jupiter
City: Chicago
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
The library.
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
’’ The miracle is not that finished.The Miracle is that I had the courage to start’’ -John Bingham
Photo by Sıla İşler
Interviewed by Sefa Kırlı
Nilüfer Pakel
English Instructor
School of Foreign Languages
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Friendly, Energetic, Free-spirited.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Rock.
3. Cat or Dog?
Dog.
4. What are you most talented at?
Music.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Maverick in Top Gun.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
The graphic. It would be something in gothic style.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
I would have the ability to fly, be super fast and invisible.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
It would be Middle Ages, Renaissance because I could witness the artistic developments then. Maybe, I could meet Da Vinci.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Pisces (20 February – 20 March)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Scrat (Ice Age).
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Book: Twilight
Movie. Top Gun
Song: Black by Pearl Jam
City: New York
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
Garden.
15. Listener or talker?
Listener.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Save mother nature.
Sıla İşler
Prep Class Student
Faculty of Law
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Childlike, enjoyable and reliable.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
My choice alternative music because It is different than the others.Also, it makes me happy.
3. Cat or Dog?
Dogs.
4. What are you most talented at?
Sports.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Robin William. – Dead Poets Society (1989)
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
I would add the world map to the tattoo I have on my wrist because I love traveling and these are my signs.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
The one above all because it is the creator of all cosmic power. In this way, I would do everything I want.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
I would go back to last July because I had a very nice holiday in Norway besides the placement results were released and my birthday is on July. I don’t want to change anything in my life.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Leo (July 23 – August 22)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Tom and Jerry.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Book: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Movie: Sliding Doors (1998)
Song: Here Without You by 3 Doors Down
City: Monte-Carlo
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Frida Kahlo.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
Everywhere! I love every place on the campus.
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
It would be this;
’The mind is everything. What you think you become.’’ -Buddha.
interviewed by Sefa Kırlı
Burak Aydın
English Language Instructor
School of Foreign Languages
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Disciplined, humorous and easy-going.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Hip-hop; it is energizing to me.
3. Cat or Dog?
Both.
4. What are you most talented at?
Impersonating people.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
A loser winning in the end.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
A script with no meaning at all.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Mind reading.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
80s, era of tunes and solidarity.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Loe (23 July – 22 August)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Sylvester.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Book: Trilogy of Hunger Games
Movie: The Green Mile
Song: Iron Maiden-Como Estais Amigos
City: İzmir-Wroclaw
12. Coffee or Tea?
Tea.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Bob Marley.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
New building, floors number 6 and number -1.
15. Listener or talker?
Listener & Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Success is a blank sheet without the ink of modesty.
Hafize Helvacı
Yaşar University Prep Class Student
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Cheerful, helpful and clever.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Pop music, it makes me feel good.
3. Cat or Dog?
Dogs.
4. What are you most talented at?
Sports.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Katniss Everdeen, Hunger Games
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
It would be a dimond shape.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
I think, I would have Spider-man’s superpowers.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
Absolutely Ottoman Empire era.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Capricorn (22 December – 20 January)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Tom and Jerry.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song and city?
Book: Peter Pan Must Die by John Verdon
Movie: Divergent (2014)
Song: Addicted To You by Avicii
City: Boston
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
Lecture Hall, New Building, First Floor.
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Read as much as you can.
Efe Koç
Prep Class Student
Radio, TV, and Cinema
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Excited, Confused and Honest.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
I would be deep, vocal house music because it makes me feel so good.
3. Cat or Dog?
Dog.
4. What are you most talented at?
Music, of course.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Sherlock Holmes.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
About playing cards.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Strong enough to the provisions of the universe.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
I want to go WW2 times because I want to see unique leaders in that time.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Scorpio (24 October – 22 November)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Spider-Man.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Book: Whisper
Movie: Batman the Dark Night
Song: Road to Zion
City: Wisconsin
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Frank Sinatra.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
The smoking area.
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Pursue your happiness.
Photo by Sefa Kırlı
Angie Woodmansee
English Instructor,
School of Foreign Languages
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Extroverted, Introvert and Positive.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Soul. It makes you feel so strongly, not just one thing but a whole variety of emotions.
3. Cat or Dog?
Cat, Dog.
4. What are you most talented at?
Languages, making conversation, reading the room.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Almost any villain. I did theater when I was younger and it was always the most fun to play an evil person.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
I would add to mine, and get a variety of different flowers that represent important places for me.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Splitting myself into multiple copies of myself so I could be in several places at once.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
I would go back to the 1950s and 1960s in America to listen to some of my favorite musicians perform live. But I wouldn’t stay for long.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Libra (24 September – 23 October)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Roadrunner.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
I have too many favorites of all of them to list here.
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee, Tea.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
I have no idea.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
In the library.
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
I don’t know, but I hope when the time comes it’s something insightful.
photo by Tuğba Polatcan
Gizem Özgirgin
English Instructor
School of Foreign Languages
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Sensitive, Sensible, Funny.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Jazz. I really love the melody and the rhythm of this music genre.
3. Cat or Dog?
Cat.
4. What are you most talented at?
Cooking.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Christopher McCandless in “Into the Wild”.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
I already have one with son’s name and a heartbeat graphic on it.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Invisibility and Merging.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
It would be the 60s because of the revolutions in social matters, art, and human rights.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Scorpio (24 October – 22 November)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Lisa Simpson.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Book: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Movie: The Life of Pi
Song: Fly Me to The Moon by Frank Sinatra
City: Rome
12. Coffee or Tea?
Tea.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Amelia Earhart the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
My Office.
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
No discrimination, no prejudice and no hatred!
photo by Sefa Kırlı
#FacesOnCampus
Gülistan AVCI
Staff, Yasar University
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Cheerful, Helpful, Merry
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
It would be Folk Dance because I like folk dance and dancing a lot.
3. Cat or Dog?
Cat.
4. What are you most talented at?
Cooking & Cleaning.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Aysa (Türkan Şoray) in “Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım”
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
I do not like tattoos at all but If I were to, it would be a ladybug.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
I would destroy all the bad people on earth with a single snap.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what will be that time and why?
I would go back to my twenties and would talk to my younger self.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Scorpio (24 October 22
November)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Popeye.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Movie: Senede Bir Gün (Once A Year) (1971)
Song: Mimoza Çiçeği (Mimosa Flower) by Volkan Konak
Cİty: Akhisar, Manisa, Turkey
12. Coffee or Tea?
Tea.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Hürrem Sultan.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
4th Floor, Tea House.
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Miss me, dears.
photo by Sefa Kırlı
Sinem Güral
English Instructor
School of Foreign Languages
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Kind, Helpful and Easy-going.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Celtic music because it is tranquilizing and peaceful.
3. Cat or Dog?
Cat.
4. What are you most talented at?
Languages, Cooking and Literature.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
The one that is the most indifferent towards life issues.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
“What fools these mortals be”
or a cat
or a paw.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Control the time and control the mind of people
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
Back to my childhood as it was the most enjoyable times that I could have had.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Gemini (22 May – 21 June)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Buggs Bunny.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Albert Camus – Stranger
Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
Loreena McKennit – The Lady of Shalott
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
One of the pharaohs in Egypt.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
The dining hall
15. Listener or talker?
Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Do not waste yourself.
photo by Faruk Cimbar
Gülay Çalışkan
English Instructor
School of Foreign Languages
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Ambitious, loyal, perfectionist.
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
It would be Alternative R&B because it penetrates my emotions and makes me feel more self-confident.
3. Cat or Dog?
Cat.
4. What are you most talented at?
Languages.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Wolverine.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
Some kind of ethnic tattoo.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Instant learning and self-manipulation.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
The Romantic Era because of cultural and artistic growth/environment.
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Virgo (23 August – 23 September)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Cartman.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Book: Game of Thrones series as a whole
Movie: 12 Years a Slave/ The Gladiator/ Shutter Island
Song: 311 – Love Song
City: Amsterdam
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Sigmund Freud.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
Refectory.
15. Listener or talker?
Listener, Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Worry less, smile more because life is short.
photo by Faruk Cimbar
interviewed by Sefa Kırlı
Hakan Çavlak
EFL Instructor, Material Developer, SIT TESOL Trainer Candidate
SoFL, Prep Class
1. Can you describe yourself in three words?
Hardworking, positive, energetic
2. If you could be a music genre, what would it be? Why?
Latin because of its energy.
3. Cat or Dog?
Cat, Dog.
4. What are you most talented at?
Multi tasking, organizing, speaking, dancing & eating.
5. If you were to perform in a movie, which character would you perform?
Transporter- Frank.
6. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?
The initials of my wife and daughter to show my endless love to them.
7. If you were a superhero, what superpower(s) would you have?
Time-traveling, mind reading, invisibility.
8. If given a chance to go back in time, what would be that time and why?
That will be my wife’s childhood to say wait for me:)
9. What is your zodiac sign?
Cancer (22 June – 22 July)
10. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Charlie Brown & Richie Rich.
11. What’s your favorite book, movie, song, and city?
Current favorite book: SIT TESOL Trainer’s booklet:)
Movie: The Shawshank Redemption, Life is Beautiful, Butterfly Effect
Song: Carlos Santana& Rob Thomas- Smooth, All songs of Bruno Mars
City: İzmir, Venice Burano
12. Coffee or Tea?
Coffee.
13. If you could be anyone from the past, who would that be?
Leonardo da Vinci.
14. The place on campus where I feel happiest is…
Lunch hall.
15. Listener or talker?
Listener, Talker.
16. What would be your last message on earth?
Love your family, they will always be with you.
photo by Faruk Cimbar
interviewed by Sefa Kırlı