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Student Exchange Program Applications
The university’s Student Exchange Program gives Bilkent students the opportunity to study abroad. The application process for student exchanges during the next academic year (2018-2019) has started. Students currently in their third or fourth
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Bilkent in Autumn
Bilkent University welcomed the changing season by inviting all the Bilkenters to capture fall on campus. If you would like to share photographs you have taken on the Bilkent campus, please send them to
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The International Chronicles
BY NAUSHERWAN AZIZ (MAN/II) Name: Theodore Paul Alain Ballu Department: MAN/Erasmus Country of Origin: France What do you like best about Turkey? How welcoming Turkish people are. Are there any similarities between your country’s
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Musicals I: Mamma Mia!
I first heard of ABBA in “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi’s amazing creation, and I thought they were being made fun of. Well, in context that made sense; they were a Swedish pop group, and not
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On Victory, Part 1
This is the first installment in a four-part series on Joseph Conrad’s novel “Victory.” “I have managed to refine everything away. I’ve said to the Earth that bore me: ‘I am I and you
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St. Vincent: MASSEDUCTION
After a three-year hiatus, St. Vincent returns with “MASSEDUCTION,” a meditation on how love and eroticism overlap and conflict with each other. With her fifth album, St. Vincent continues to shock the general audience
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A Word From the Wise: Seniors’ Advice to Freshmen
BY ALİ ADEEB (ARCH/IV) For most of us, a new role in life presents a variety of challenges and some surprises, too. Advice from someone who’s already been there can help get us through
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Fall Swim Festival Results
On October 26, the Bilkent swimming pool hosted the university’s annual Fall Swim Fest. Organized by the Sports Center as part of the “Sports as a Way of Life” program, the event attracted 23
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