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1. When ı first heard that ı had been accepted to Middle East Technical Unıversity, ı was disappointed. Because ı did not like Ankara as a city. But my opinions have changed over time dramatically. Because Middle East Technical Unıversity is really a different world in Ankara. 2. It has been only one month since I came here. But I got used to this environment. Because, first of all, people from all of ages in here respect to each other. 3. I love Ankara,I love my dormitory,I love my new friends, I love my department,I am content with everything which are belongs to METU. 4. If someone wants to walk , he or she can go and walk. And it is nice place to go and meet with my friends 5. We can easily see this by watching TV,surfing on the internet or maybe just looking around us.Because there are many people getting graduated from different kinds of universities but they're not even able to know what's going on around them or they don't even try to find good ways to improve the countries yhat they live in.

 The paragraph above has some mistakes. I underlined some of the mistakes and wrote them in red. The subject I must be written in capital. There are fragments in some sentences beginning with because. They must be connected to the previous sentences. Unıversity is a wrong word and it must be ‘university’. I think it would be better not to use as a city.  We should notice that really a different is a wrong determinative group. In here is also wrong because in is a redundant preposition, we cannot use it with here. And we can put the word ‘here’ at the end of the sentence. ‘People of all ages’ can be an alternative for people from all of ages. And saying ‘a month’ sounds better than ‘one month’ for me. What is wrong with are belongs is its grammar. If it starts with ‘are’, then the verb ‘to belong’ can be used only in –ing form, which is wrong because it is a special verb and we cannot use it with the present continuous tense. So it must be used only with the present tense. In the sentence it is nice place, an article is missing. We should add there ‘a’. In the last sentence maybe yhat would be written as ‘what’ but even if we use ‘what’, it is still wrong. We can say ‘where they live’, ‘which they live in’, ‘that they live in’, and ‘in which they live’. And in the same sentence, I think ‘because’ is not related to the previous sentence, so there is no need to use it. You can read the reformed paragraph below:

When I first heard that I had been accepted to Middle East Technical University, I was disappointed because I did not like Ankara. But my opinions have changed over time dramatically because Middle East Technical University is a really different world in Ankara. It has been only a month since I came here. But I got used to this environment because, first of all, people from all of ages respect each other here. I love Ankara, I love my dormitory, I love my new friends, I love my department, and I am content with everything which belongs to METU. If someone wants to walk, he or she can go and walk. And it is a nice place to go and meet with my friends. We can easily see this by watching TV, surfing on the Internet or maybe just looking around us. There are many people getting graduated from different kinds of universities but they are not even able to know what is going on around them or they do not even try to find good ways to improve the countries where they live.