My childhood and young adulthood in Turkey flew by while I was studying seven days a week to make it to one of the few highly competitive prestigious public universities. In order to please my parents, teachers and society, I studied mathematics. As it is today in Erdogan's Turkey, in the 80s, the political and economical environment was unstable. We were always told to study something "real" and pursue our passion as a "hobby." I did not want to be a mathematician, but I did not know what to wi...
My childhood and young adulthood in Turkey flew by while I was studying seven days a week to make it to one of the few highly competitive prestigious public universities. In order to please my parents, teachers and society, I studied mathematics. As it is today in Erdogan's Turkey, in the 80s, the political and economical environment was unstable. We were always told to study something "real" and pursue our passion as a "hobby." I did not want to be a mathematician, but I did not know what to wi...
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