
Burcu Demiralp
After a training course that was so intense that one could easily mistake the time before noon on Saturday with afternoon on the same day and, the time afternoon on Saturday with Sunday, nothing I could write would be sufficient, but it could make you feel the experience I have had during the process. I could say that it was the most different 10 weeks in my life. Staying on alert all the time, keeping watch at night from 3 to 5, starting to see your computer as your weapon, and being able to sleep everywhere but your bed. Considering each of them at a time, it is something that moves you away from your comfort zone.
It is interesting however that you are happy with that somehow, and you start to be worried that you could lose what you have accomplished, after the process is over. But, you are taught to deal with this just like you are taught to deal with all other concerns you may have. Before the training starts, it is not promised that you would learn everything but, it is promised that we could overcome everything if we act together. Sometimes you could handle with it, sometimes you fail. Every type of human profile you could encounter at the sector is included in your team. And this makes you experienced in respect of human relations.
During the whole period of 10 weeks, you feel the pressure together and, you sweat together. But, you will never compromise having some fun. And thanks to your team, you get learned something at the evening that you have heard about for the first time at the morning. Together, side by side, you are able to crawl under any condition whatsoever. This is not a joke. You learn how to be a hybrid one from the only person who really knows about it.
At every time you keep in touch, they share with you some experience, from which you can make an inference. It is always predicted a few steps and even more ahead from the level you currently are. You think of something at the evening and, you will listen to a talk about it on the day after although you have never told anyone about your thought. Unlike all other environments you might have been present, you notice that what is criticized is not people but the strategy. And you know that the purpose is not to criticize something but point out something from which you can make an interference. You feel somehow the sincerity behind these criticisms and, the efforts made to teach you something important.
Consequently, this place is not just another institution you attend to learn something, but it soon becomes family that you want to be a part and look after. Last but not least, I want to remind people who consider attending this training of something I always remind myself throughout the entire process. Do whatever you are told.