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My Ancient Class Notes


I have kept some of my class notes (for 40+ years!) from my university days at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Middle East Technical University. I thought that they should not stay hidden somewhere in my bookshelves and keep gathering dust. Finally found some time to scan them. Here they are:

Note that these constitute only a small subset of all the subjects I took. I counted 40 subjects for undergraduate, and 8 for masters on my transcript! Unfortunately there is no trace of others in my archive.

And… Here are my father's notes he prepared for teaching technical drawing (Reşat Şekercioğlu, c1973). He was a teacher at a technical high school (to my Turkish speaking friends: “Yapı Sanat Enstitüsü”). I remember him grading student projects or meticulously drawing things using densely black china ink. I was looking for a location to place my father's teaching notes, after seeing this quote:

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” (Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum)

I said to myself: “This page is the place.”

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