{"id":293,"date":"2008-06-18T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-06-18T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T21:00:13","slug":"rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-292 aligncenter\" title=\"acceptance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/acceptance.jpg\" alt=\"Letter of Acceptance\" width=\"415\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/acceptance.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/acceptance-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been officially accepted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yeditepe.edu.tr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yeditepe<\/a>! Time to sit back and relax, right? Not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week: 2 final exams. This week: 1 final exam, 1 deadline for a website, some work assignments. So at this point I was already busy. Anyway, I decided to figure out how I would get my ERASMUS grant. I went to the international office and they informed me I should have my forms in before the 15th of July (I would be in Bulgaria\/Macedonia from the 25th of June to the 17th of July), including a certificate of enrollment for the NEXT study year. I handed my enrollment in last Friday and was going on holiday this Saturday, so that got me quite stressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;No worries, mate&#8221; I told myself. I figured I&#8217;d just take care of something that I could take care of immediately. I googled a bit to find out more about the Turkish embassy in Holland and visa. The embassy site was nearly completely in Turkish, but I found a number and called them. After passing through 2 rude receptionists and being connected to a person, I was informed that I should not call her but someone asked and she asked me why I called her. I blamed television and she gave me the number of the Turkish consulate. I called the consulate, had to go through the same annoying type of receptionists and finally got someone who knew anything about what I was asking. Turns out the studentvisum for Turkey is&#8230; 446 euros! Awesome. Perfectly reasonable to ask from a student, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More stress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then I did something I should do more often before asking stuff to people who don&#8217;t really know the answer either. I used my eyes and applied them to some text. I did some reading. I saw I could get an advance on the Erasmus grant, which meant I could probably use that money to pay for the visum. Also, I got in contact with the central international office of my degree factory (commercial university) and found out my enrollment for this year would be enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last time I had stress relief like this I decided it would be best not to blog about it. So I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nervewrecking stuff if you&#8217;re going on a holiday for a month in just a few days. Anyway, it all seems to be okay now. Still nervous about the visum, since I&#8217;d rather not borrow money for it, but we&#8217;ll see. Let&#8217;s hope the woman was confused and told me the normal or work visum instead of a studentvisum. Not counting on it though. The very worst is that I will have to go visit the consulate which is built in Holland&#8217;s pit of doom, Rotterdam. Lord, help me <img decoding=\"async\" onclick=\"grin(':sad:');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_sad.gif\" alt=\":sad:\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh! So I&#8217;m going on a holiday this Wednesday. Expect to see many stories and pictures! <img decoding=\"async\" onclick=\"grin(':cool:');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_cool.gif\" alt=\":cool:\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been officially accepted to Yeditepe! Time to sit back and relax, right? Not. Last week: 2 final exams. This week: 1 final exam, 1 deadline for a website, some work assignments. So at this point I was already busy. Anyway, I decided to figure out how I would get my ERASMUS grant. 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