List the titles of the required readings from courses during the school year or summer that you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd G. Buchholz, Protagoras by Plato, the Tempest by William Shakespeare, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck 

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List the titles of the books you read for pleasure that you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)

Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, Justice by Michael Sandel, the Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni, The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

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List the titles of the print, electronic publications and websites you read regularly. (150 words or less)

New York Times (Mostly world news), CNN Turk, Haber Turk (Turkish Newspaper), Hurriyet (Turkish Newspaper), Freakonomics (Blog)

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List the titles of the films, concerts, shows, exhibits, lectures and other entertainments you enjoyed most in the past year. (150 words or less)

Jackie, Arrival, Sully, Casablanca, The Martian, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, An American in Paris (Musical), The Museum of Innocence (Exhibition Based on Orhan Pamuk's novel), “Roger Ballen: Retrospective” (Exhibition at Istanbul Modern), "People Attract People" (Exhibition at Istanbul Modern), "Celebrating 100 Years of Einstein's General Theory " (Exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum), "City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics" (Exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum), "Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library" (Exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum), “The Greeks on Beauty and Ugliness,” (Lecture by Dr. Ralph Rosen), “EU and Security in The Wider Neighbourhood,” (Lecture at Kadir Has University), Walk for Democracy (An appreciation walk following the coup attempt in Turkey), Economics class trip to the Federal Reserve Bank of NYC and the Museum of American Finance.