Study / I'm thinking to study in the Wrocław University of Science and Technology [55]


I hate to break it to you but Poland isn't going to be much better. It is a very homogenous Christian country. You'll be fine if you're in Warsaw or one of the larger cities but it isn't a liberal multicultural place like Germany (which has a very large Turkish population btw). Even if people are nominally Catholic and the Easter/Christmas type of church goers, they're not going to appreciate Atheist views. While Warsaw will be easier for you to blend in among the immigrant population, aside from the nonstop flow of tourists in Wroclaw there isn't all that much foreigners aside from Ukrainians. Wroclaw tends to be more open and liberal than other parts of Poland but nonetheless it's still Poland.. There aren't many people from Muslim countries aside from a few Pakis that also came to study CS/IT and then move westward once they have their degree. Don't be surprised if every so often you face some hostility for being a Turk or coming from a Muslim country - it most likely won't be like violence but you may face and insult or two especially if you're wandering around the areas where the dyskoteki are at like 2 3 AM on a Saturday/Sunday night. The people who are coming from Pakistan/India though where tens of millions (hundreds of millions in India's case) live on a dollar or less a day. The vast majority tend to use PL as a stepping stone for west EU where wages are better and there's way more Indians, Pakis, etc.

Also, I hate to tell you but in day to day life most people tend not to really care about you or your ideas. There's of course people who will discuss and debate with you, like on this forum, but by and large most people are more concerned with just paying their bills and living out their lives. If atheism is that important to you and you wish to find like minded people I'd suggest Czechy as there's far more atheists there. Generally in Europe though you have a separation of church and state. However, in more homogenous countries like in Poland, Hungary, etc. religion tends to influence government, schools, etc. If you're trying to escape the influence of religion whether Muslim, Catholic, Buddhist, whatever Poland isn't the ideal place. Church and state is far more separated in US and UK for example.

Language / Melody of Polish and listening skills [8]

@Lyzko

There's even jokes like that in Polish. Like how do you say bed (lozko) in Czech? Cztery nozne pieprzydelko

Work / What salaries are for IT specialists (Senior QA Engineer) in Poland? [59]

@DominicB

Gotcha thanks.

Work / What salaries are for IT specialists (Senior QA Engineer) in Poland? [59]


Is Warsaw that cheap for a 2 bedroom? Jesus that's pretty damn cheap. Wouldn't this be more than range for like a low-end older apartment? I've seen 2k-2.5k as like the lowest range and like closer to 3k for a nice modern almost like gated community type of place for a 2 bedroom

Work / What salaries are for IT specialists (Senior QA Engineer) in Poland? [59]


True... but that's why it would pay to find out what the salary range is first at a similar company, city, etc.

For example, when I was researching salaries for sales managers like Naradowy Bank Polski (180k zloty), Oracle (250k), IBM (200k), and so on.. I'd walk in say well, Oracle offered 260k annual, so I would like to keep my salary close to that number - I like your company but ultimately salary is very important to me blah blah blah.

Out of the research Oracle had the highest salary so I'd chose that at my starting point + maybe 5%-10% or so to pretend that I negotiated that salary. It would be unlikely that say Adobe, the imagined company who's demanding that I first say my requirement, would have a figure 5% higher than Oracle's who seemed to be the market leader and to be certain an added 5-10%. It's unlikely they'd offer like 15%+ more than a position with a competitor,

Then again like I said - the business culture may be waaaay different in Poland. I've only actually got the interview phase with 2 companies in which case they actually told me the salary prior to me as soon as I sent in my resume to them.

Work / What salaries are for IT specialists (Senior QA Engineer) in Poland? [59]


I wouldn't totally agree. However, the business culture may be different. I have noticed in Poland many employers typically don't disclose the salary of a position openly like they do in the us. when you go on a job board most jobs will write the salary, salary range with doe, or simpy competitive. very rarely have I seen polish jobs say what the salary is on a job advert. typically they don't even release this info till they've received your resume and such and sometimes not even till the interview/offer stage.

IMO I'd say a salary slightly higher than the average for a similar position with a similar company in the same city. If it's 10k. I'd say my salary expectation is 12k, 14k to give you a better negotiating position. They'll counter with say 10k, then you can counter that's low I need at least 11k 12k whatever... Consider even putting it on hold - if they really want you they'll up their offer. Also, look for other places. You can say that you're in the market and interviewing in multiple places. I've done that before and it's helped me get higher salaries - even when I bluffed and said things along the lines 'I have a better offer but like this company and culture more, nonetheless the salary is important to me and I would take the position if the salary was at least xyz'

This may work for US but idk about Poland and how different the culture is for interviewing and such.. I've only had my own small biz ventures but never worked for anyone. I did interview with Google in Wroclaw and a norse shipping company in Gdansk but that was a while ago. both of which I was just feeling out to see the job market, what I could expect to make at that time, etc.

Work / What salaries are for IT specialists (Senior QA Engineer) in Poland? [59]

@dj1981

20-25k zloty is an excellent salary. typically mid/high level manager, white collar professionals, etc. make this type of salary. it may seem like a low amount by US/UK/etc standards but its a very good salary for PL.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]

@spiritus

That's what I don't understand... I mean every country has it's problems including the ones we, meaning all posters on pf, live in.

Work / Data Analyst Accenture salary in Poland [2]

Garbage salary for a data analyst IMO - you can do much better I'd ask for minimum 5k... then again idk what your qualifications are but if you have at least 5 years experience, bachelors or beyond, and are bilingual you can do far better than 3-4k.

Data analysts make $50 $60 plus in US with more experienced/senior ones making $80-$100k - as a rule of thumb in PL you'll make about 1/2 of a US salary for white collar professional type of jobs. Jobs that pay 3k-4k in Poland esp in the cities are typically entry level, low skill type of work. If you have no little or no experience and this is more of an entry level position then fine but still 3k-4k seems very low.

Study / I'm thinking to study in the Wrocław University of Science and Technology [55]

My experience may be different from others, but honestly you'll most likely learn all the most important practical things in the real world while working, not in a classroom. Only a few classes like statistics, corporate marketing, financial/managerial accounting, and maybe 1 or 2 other classes taught me things that were actually practical. Other classes like economics, human resources, business law, operations management, etc. all I learned were the definitions of words that are regularly used in a corporate environment. I didn't learn anything about like investing in stocks, how to read candlestick charts, how to use various CRM software, Google Ad words, etc while in school and I went to one of the best division 1 unis in the Midwest US. If anything, I learned more like social skills and such than anything else.

If you're planning on moving to Poland just to study CS, you're better off just staying in Turkey. Like the saying goes, go big or go home. Try to get into one of the top schools in UK or a well known US school. If it doesn't work out, go to a good uni in Turkey. I'm from Wroclaw, born and raised, and I'd really advise against transplanting your life just to study CS there. You can easily learn CS in Turkey and then move to Poland if you like it so much.

Study / I'm thinking to study in the Wrocław University of Science and Technology [55]


Absolutely...

Ditch the internship b.s. dude... Unless you want to pour coffee for free in the hopes that you 'might' get a job after months of being someones unpaid secretary/b1tch... There's plenty of corporations that will hire you for certain position even over more experienced and educated candidates if you wow them with your resume and interview. My first job out of college about 2 months after graduating I was making almost double the median us wage while just weeks before that I was delivering pizzas. I'm sure there were more experienced candidates yet they chose me. I'm not a programmer or coder so I'd highly recommend you find a mentor that's not too much older than you and has maybe 5-10 years of experience in that field esp ones who have worked abroad. They'll give you a lot more advice on career prospects. I can tell you more about US corporations in general as well as a few tech firms I've worked at (and currently work), US unis, and a bit about Wroclaw if you have other questions but I'd highly recommend attending workshops, conferences, etc in the field you're interested in. Experienced people are generally more than happy to share their experience and offer advice to a young gun that's entering the same type of career.

You'll fit in at a tech company the way you described yourself above. The people who work there are very friendly and very open minded. They generally tend to be more liberal but nonetheless are open minded enough to discuss some topic with a person who has more conservative viewpoints. All in all, I find these companies have a much better work/life balance than finance companies (where I first started my career) and a lot better atmosphere. For example, the office I work in now has an open floor plan to encourage communication among the lower/mid level guys, many people wear jeans and a collar shirt everyday, and lots of people sit on a medicine ball instead of a chair. There's no clocking in/out either or micromanaging.

Work / Information about jobs for Indian students in Poland [286]

You can find out more info on sgh websiye. If you go to sgh you'll be at the front of the line as car as getting a job in Poland w a corporation, polish or foreign owned.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]

Im surprised she's a model. She's not even all that hot. She's above average but def not a 9 or 10.

Work / Information about jobs for Indian students in Poland [286]

@massras

SGH (Szkola Glowna Handlowa) is generally regarded the most prestigious business school in PL and has been for a long long time even back in PRL commie times it's where the top officials and their kids would go. I was going to go there but ultimately ended up chosing an MBA program in the US as the timing would've been a bit inconvenient to transplant my life to Warsaw

The weird thing is this though - they teach courses in English and Polish but you get a different degree depending on the language you chose for your classes. If you take your MBA in Polish, you'll receive the MBA from SGH... However, if you take it in English that have a unique situation where it's teachers from University of Montreal (a very good Canadian Uni) along with PL teachers teaching you on the SGH campus. Unless I'm reading the info wrong, it appears that you'd get your MBA degree from U of Montreal rather than SGH if you were to chose the English MBA.

The English MBA is also more expensive but still far cheaper than US (and most UK MBAs). The cost from what I recall was 30k zloty (around 8k USD depending on the exchange rate) PLUS $9k USD. So you can count on roughly $17k give or take for the English MBA. In the US, an MBA will run $50k for a cheaper state school to even as high as $150k.

Study / I'm thinking to study in the Wrocław University of Science and Technology [55]


Same. I played volleyball and basketball back in grade school and high school but I wasn't very good. It was mainly just bc I was taller than everyone else till I hit like soph/junior year and the other guys started catching up lol. I don't ever really watch sports though. I've been more a 'mathlete' than an 'athlete' but I still weight lift for exercise. Even if your not good in sports I would recommend even doing something like track and field to be in shape and in the US people are obsessed with sports so it helps make you look like a well rounded person


There's many foreigners in Wroclaw working in IT. The amount of Poles is higher but nonetheless there's a large community of people from India, Pakistan, Italy, Portugal, etc. working for various corporations. This is a bit of a generalization but from what I've seen the Indian/Paki guys tend to work in IT, the Spaniards, Italians, and Portuguese tend to work in finance, banking, accounting, etc. The UK/US native English speakers often hold mid level managerial positions and report back to HQ for direction. There's also a lot of young people working in customer service esp if they have a foreign language skill. You can use your knowledge of Turkish and English to land such a job while you're in school.

A lot of Poles have switched careers to go into IT because it pays a lot better than comparable jobs. There's a smaller company that basically trains individuals on programming/coding for like 4-6 months or however long it lasts and at the end they place you in a 10k zloty a month job which is a very high wage for PL when most people are making like 3k-6k zloty (depending on job, city, etc). However I believe that this particular company only hires poles to train but they may be willing to hire a person who speaks fluent English.

I have no doubts that you'd get a good job once you have enough experience and learned a particular discipline. Unless you have another stream of money to pay for schooling, rent, living expenses, etc it may be difficult for you to find a sort of job that students typically work while going to school.

Honestly, I would still highly recommend you expand your search outside of Poland. If I were in your shoes I would study in the US because there's so many programs that welcome people from abroad and there's a very good chance that you'll go to school for free simply for being an English speaking Turk. There's one such program called like 'diversity immigrants' that you can easily get in as long as you're a high school graduate and have a basic understanding of English. You can search for it - website will end in .gov. Plus, you'd make way more money while you're going to school and it'd be far easier to get a student type job than in PL without knowing the language.

Also, IMO internships especially unpaid are worthless. I never had an internship while in college and I never had an issue finding work. Honestly even the friends who have had internships or didn't I didn't see any significant difference in their career prospects upon graduating. It may be different in PL but imo I'd avoid any sort of unpaid internships.

Language / Melody of Polish and listening skills [8]

People have told me that Polish sounds like a bunch of 'sh' 'ch' sounds with some vowels interspersed. I've had people think its everything from Russian/Czech/Serbian to some idiots thinking its French or German.

Real Estate / Buying land to build on near Czestochowa [15]


Is that a new thing? I never went to agricultural uni nor did anyone in my family and we were able to take advantage of those programs for rolniki. This was years and years ago though it may have changed since.

Also it sounds like only a small part of the land is considered agricultural. I personally have never seen land classed as two different things (one part residential/commercial/etc one part agricultural) although that doesn't mean it doesn't occur.

Real Estate / Buying land to build on near Czestochowa [15]

@terri

Agricultural land owners get a lot of privileges in Poland including social benefits and insurance aside from the common ZUS. Idk how it works with OP as idk if he's a pl citizen or not and also if residents are able to take advantage of it. I use to have an apple orchard i used primarily for personal consumption. Id mostly make it into apple wine and give away the remainder of apples for free mainly to local people. Its delicious it tastes like a sweet apple juice. Most of my neighbors thought I was crazy and insisted there's no such thing as apple wine till they tried it and loved it lol. I still have the property but all the trees and land got destroyed thanks to some ******** who decided it was easier to dump rubble from a job site on someone's yard than go to a proper site. I did find out the rubble is rich in minerals that can be used to turn into concrete. I've been duking this situation out in the courts now for a year n a half. I believe in karma those guys will get what's coming to them.

The op will definetrly love czestochowa. Building a house from ground up generally is more costly than buying but atleast you can customize your home the way you want. If this is in fact agricultural land and you're a citizen (idk if its the same for residents but you can find out) take advantage of the side benefits of being a rolnik like the insurance.

Real Estate / Buying land to build on near Czestochowa [15]

@anti_brexit

Be super super super careful when buying land in Poland. There many crooked unethical people in this industry that have screwed over foreigners - both people who are from another country as well as Poles who have lived abroad and returned to buy property. I'd highly recommend hiring a lawyer to help you and checking every step of the process, redundantly documenting everything, and basically just make sure you're totally covered from all aspects. I've heard quite a few horror stories of people getting screwed over and losing tons of money due to unethical agents, title companies, etc. Just be very very careful. It sounds like you're doing your research though so you're off to a good start - keep it up! You'll love Czestochowa - it's a very well known town in PL and very pretty.


To my understanding, yes that is accurate as the land I own in Poland too is classed as agricultura.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]


You're right. Nonetheless, I'd be willing to bet that I would've learned a hell of a lot more practical real world knowledge SGH than at my US alma mater which is one of the best schools for business in the Midwest and is Division 1.


Absolutely. It's pretty standard for liberal arts schools. Weirdly enough they'd emphasize 6 classes of theology and philosophy but only require 2 classes of foreign language and that was actually a require for international business otherwise I don't think you needed to take any. Of course you'll learn nothing within those 2 semester. For some reason I ended up in like a French 101 class bc I needed some b.s. elective and the basic French class was the only available in summer evenings. I only remember how to say jem appelle Adrian (or however it's spelled), merci, and bonjour lol

I'll look for my old transcripts when I get home from work and bring them with me tomorrow - it'll give you an idea of like typical courses a student would take at a liberal arts school. Keep in mind though that I took more courses though than required to graduate mainly bc I switched majors from biology to international business and then later added marketing as a 2nd major since it only meant I needed to take like 2 or 3 extra classes which I wanted to take anyway.

Also if you're interested in learning more about like a specific school's syllabus for a certain major, say chem, oftentimes they give a general like coure path that a student would take from years 1 to 4. State schools tend to focus a bit less on the 'liberal arts' aspect of education but nonetheless every single accredited uni in the US will have you take 'core' classes which basically are a slightly more advanced version of junior/senior year classes... or perhaps even easier.... I'm taking a master's level statistics class and it's actually easier and far less comprehensive than the stats class I took in like sophomore year of undergrad.

Its kind of sad because like most of the stuff you learn in business, esp at the bachelor level, is just like theory but not so much practical info. much of it is just definitions which you could learn just by purchasing like 'marketing for dummies' or some other books lol. nonetheless, you still need that piece of paper regardless of how little practical knowledge you actually learned to get your foot in the door of a good job.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]


Again depends on school. In general though, if we compared an 'average/above average' US school to 'average/above average' EU school I bet the EU would have a far higher standard of education. Nonetheless, the US school would more than likely be more widely respected. If we're comparing UCLAor even a school like University of Wisconsin-Madison to like Wroclaw U or U of Hamburg, I'd put my money on ucla/Wisconsin though. Plus, even if Wroclaw/Hamburg were a better overall education, you're going to get a lot more respect from UCLA/Madison than Wroclaw.


I'm not too familiar with honors levels classes of EU BS/BA degrees. When I went to school for bachelors and masters there weren't any 'honors' or 'advanced' level classes and I've never really heard of such things at unis. Like there was like Economics 220 normal and Economics 220 honors for example. There are 'honors' class but there are honors degrees like *** laude, suma *** laude, etc. but that more depends on just your GPA rather than the classes


I agree. It's bc so many schools are liberal arts and want to make students 'well rounded.' I had no desire to take 1 class in theology or philosophy let alone 6 (3 each) but nonetheless that's how schools tend to operate in the US. Some like it some don't. I can understand taking like some entry level college English, math, etc. but no need to nearly 1/3 of the syllabus on 'liberal arts' type classes unrelated to a major.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]


Thanks. Now perhaps we can move away from criticizing grammar and spelling on a forum.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]


That is true.


Absolutely. There is some fear by certain groups of others but in general the US is one of the few countries where if a person is hard working and ambitious, they'll make it. The American dream isn't dead yet no matter what newspapers write. I see and meet people everyday living the American dream. The problem is people have now become accustomed to just have things handed to them or automatically expect success without the necessary work.


You will I guaruntee it - especially as an American as Poles still have a fascination with America. If you make the attempt to learn Polish, even a few phrases, Poles will really appreciate it. In the larger cities generally English is enough to get around on and find some work at an international corp - depending on the position though of course.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]

Also no, I never read the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Unfortunately, too much of grade school literature had a had heavy African American focus so we missed out on a lot of great works. Not that black people didn't write great things, but it's like they seem to have only focused on such authors. I didn't even get to read any Shakespeare aside from the basic Romeo and Juliet in grade school. At least we got to read Macbeth in a 3rd year English honors (different than AP - considered a bit lower as AP is a sort of 'double honors'). To my understanding in 'Pied Piper' the word pied means like promising false things, negative connotation, (unless I'm reading it wrong) but in terms of the GMAT pied simply meant having many colors.

That's crazy that you need at least 5 'AP' style classes for a Cambridge school in the UK. Some high schools don't even have that many AP classes in total. The better ones will have quite a few - usually around half a dozen to dozen but it's more of an issue of fitting them all into a schedule within junior and senior year. The top students in my hs, the ones that went off to the top ivies, would typically take around 2 AP classes per semester. These were like the top 1% of students though, which I certainly wasn't in. If I studied, read, re-read, maybe I could've got similar scores but alas I was involved in other clubs, working, etc.

Some students who get into these top unis aren't maybe even super high IQ individuals, they just study a ton. Some people are able to study for an exam 2-3 hours and get an A, others will study for 5 hours and barely get a B or C, and yet others will study 10 hours but at the end will get also get an A. I know quite a few people who maybe weren't the 'smartest' in terms of sheer intellect but they devoted tons of time either to getting good grades and high standardized test scores and hence got into top unis, or perhaps were above average students but had some sort of unique skill. I actually wrote in a previous post how a friend got into Dartmouth, with a scholarship nonetheless, because he was a great skier although his grades were good - certainly above average, but definitely not in the top 1-5% that's usually required for admissions into an Ivy.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]


Eh I wouldn't totally agree with that. At the top 50 type of unis the undergrad and grad programs are just as prestigious and if you were to sort say top 25/top 50 schools in US (or even the world) according to undergrad and grad degrees, I'm sure you'd see the vast majority of unis on both lists. Once you go further into the rankigns like 50-100th place (still very high considering there's around 5k unis that hold national as opposed to regional accreditation) that's where it makes a difference. Some schools for example will have an 'average' business undergrad program but then their grad program is excellent. In the US, the percentage of the population who has a bachelor's is around 32% for 25 and over while with graduate it's closer to around 8-11% (different sources say different %'s) but only about 3% have PhD's.

census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf

wtop.com/business-finance/2017/04/education-counts-americans-never-smarter

Nonetheless, worldwide Americans are considered kind of stupid. Not so much in terms of education but more so that they're like kind of naïve, loud mouthed, unsophisticated, not worldly, etc.

The language I use here is casual. I adjust my speech and writing according to my situation. I don't speak the same in a bar with a friend as I would to a professor. (Actually, that bar speak would oddly enough be closer to the language used in the board room). I'm rather articulate in real life however when I write things on a forum I typically don't go back and proofread. I type pretty fast (probably around 70 80 wpm) and the way I write on here is the way I would speak to a friend on a lunch break. Also, taking Latin actually helped me learn grammar a lot. On here of course I'd do things I'd never do in an academic paper or a professional one (like use a preposition at the beginning of a sentence with a comma). I actually scored in the 97th percentile in the English portion on the ACT - higher than any of the other 3 section. I would brag to my friends that I wasn't even born in the US but managed to attain a higher score.

Work / Poland - Expat Careers [26]

@johnny reb

One of my favorite dark comedy movies is pain and gain.. In the beginning the narrator talks about how 'a few puny colonies managed to beat the worlds greatest superpower and later become the most beefed up, strongest country in the world.' We did kind of lose the latter war of 1812 pr atleast certainly didnt win it tho.. It was more of a separate theater of the Napoleonic wars and mostly resulted in stalemate. Nonetheless we maintained our independence and that's ultimately what matters.

America's amd the wests position is certainly declining especially with the new China Russia paki Iran axis that has formed. Once a new basket currency replaces the dollar its over for the us. China is actively working on that with its allies. There's a lot of problems in the us but nonetheless I still firmly believe its the land of opportunity. Idk of any country where a guy can arrive without knowing the language with few hundred in his pocket and end up an upper middle class English speaking us citizen in a short time.

The roman empire certainly controlled more land but their economy was basically based on conquest. Also in terms of size I believe the mongol empire and Macedonian empire under Alexander were actually larger in terms of size but certainly not more advanced economically, culturally, etc. I took Latin for 4 years in hs I got to read a lot about Cesar and ancient Rome.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]

[moved from]

Why is it then that the vast majority of the top schools in the world are in the US? Riddle me that one. There's a reason why so many people chose the US as their 1st choice for a college education if they can afford it and get the visas. Go to any top US school and I guarantee at least a solid quarter of the students are foreign born.

For every oxford lse insead erasmus in europe we have dozens of schools like Harvard Yale mit northwestern univ of Chicago Princeton Stanford mit upenn nyu brown Cornell UCLA the list goes on and on.. Clearly our US college system is doing something right considering so many people from all over the world will move heaven and earth to get into even the top 50, let alone the top 25 us unis. I studied abroad in Europe as well for a semester - univ of Maastricht. Personally I don't think there's a huge difference in curriculum of us and EU schools and if were going by sheer amount of prestigious schools and worldwide recognition we clearly have EU beat. I can barely name 10 European unis that would be recognized all around the world as there's only really about maybe 6 or so that are truly world famous - most being in england. The amount of ivies is even greater than that whole EU list.

Also I work in a corporate environment, not a day care I mean school. We use f bombs more than any other word. Props to you guys for having a complex vocabulary amd impecable grammar. Use words like that in everyday life and people won't think you're smart, they'll think you're being a smartass and dislike you for it. The only more complex vocab used in the real world is 'legalease' as its known here, aka the language in contracts, finance documents etc which doesn't even use all that complex vocab more so just rly long sentences and barely any pronouns. After working with documents for years a persons speech and writing and legalese become quite similar.

@Atch
Lol you described me as a student quite well. I crammed for an hour or two before a test and would usually get an a if it's an easier subject b or c if not. I've had to work full time since I was in high school. I never had the luxury to spend countless hours editing an essay 5 times or making sure I knew every little detail to get an A. I still don't as I work full time while going to school.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]

@Chemikiem

Yes so it would be up to the uni, the student, their major, and their academic advisor. GENERALLY (not always of course) the student would begin their freshman year taking the 'core' classes - 100 level classes in things like English, history, maybe some math classes, etc. If its a liberal arts school there'd most likely be some theology and philosophy courses the student would also take their first year (into 2nd year). Although, it doesn't mean that the student can't take any chem classes as soon as they start. They could take for example organic chem in freshman year either semester 1 or 2 then say inorganic chem in semester 1 or 2 of sophomore year. Each school is different and generally when a student first starts they'll decide on a major (or if they simply can't pick one they'll put undecided), take their 'core' classes frosh and into soph year, and then gradually move away from taking less and less core classes and more and more major specific classes - like for chem that would include biology, bio-chem, o chem, etc.

USA, Canada / Polish or American Education? [180]


That's not really the case. Out of a 4 year degree (again though depending on the school, major, and a few other factors) a student will generally spend 2/2.5/3 years on classes directly (or indirectly) related to their major. Also it's subjective. While most people would think calculus wouldn't really be necessary for someone with an English major, it would be more important and related to someone studying engineers or business, and necessary for someone who's a math major. Liberal arts schools typically have students take 2-3 classes each in math, science, philosophy, theology, English, history, fine arts, etc. regardless of major. Students generally take 4-6 classes a semester with 4 being a light load and 6 being a heavier load.


It isn't true. Everyone declares a major when they first come in even if that major is 'undecided.' By 2nd semester sophomore year, everyone has a good idea of what their major is going to be as by then they've completed most if not all their 'core' classes. Some people take classes directly related to their major in 1st semester freshman year. It all depends on how you schedule your classes, what you sign up for, etc. You can go on a variety of different uni's websites and get an overview of courses required to complete a degree whether its in chem, business, premed, etc.

Language / Are Anglophones able to detect different Polish accents? [17]


Yeah no one really speaks Russian in Poland anymore (except for the Ukrainian and Chechen migrants that came recently). The people who were taught Ruskij barely ever use it and forget it more and more as time goes on.