#4 After high school

I graduated from high school in 2017. I did not go to university. Because I could not get a good score on the university entrance exam, and I just did not want to go. I wanted to stay at home and find myself such as who I am, what do I want from life? We do not have a gap year in Turkey, but it was like a gap year for me (without travel).

Anyway, most of my friends got into universities. In the beginning, I felt bad. Because I was at home, but now I say I am glad that I did not go to the university. For the reason that I wanted to be a physicist in high school because of Canan Dagdeviren, Mete Atatüre, Stephen Hawking, and Marie Curie. I loved those people. I do love still. However, when I graduated from high school, as I said before, I tried to meet me. I watched a lot, I read a lot. Then, I met with technology, software, and entrepreneurship, and I loved those things. Well, After that year I got into Maltepe University, and that University has awarded me a full undergraduate scholarship in the industrial engineering department. ( 2 years later the same university has awarded me a full undergraduate scholarship in the computer science department as well. (as a double degree) )

To sum up, I was always asking myself as well as am I too late for university? or all my friends got into universities, but I am at home. These are totally wrong questions.

So, here is a lesson to me from my 18 years old: First of all, never compare yourself to others. You do not have to do what everyone else is doing. Stop thinking you are doing it all wrong. Your path does not look like anybody else’s because it cannot, it should not, and it will not. Yes, I spent my 1 year, but I am chasing my dreams right now. By the way, some of my friends dropped out of university. Then, they lost 2-3 years, and some of them are paying money for the university. Now, who is more profitable?