I got accepted into a university in Gliwice, Poland!

Chemistry at the Silesian University of Technology?, hehehhee, The professors at the chemistry department are incompetent assh*les. They love to humiliate students in order to show them that ''they are superior'' , from that department you will only get negativity and they will try to make you feel worthless and that you don't deserve nothing. If you do study there, you would have to become a mirror and reflect all the negativity that you will get from them.

I have to add that the professors are corrupt and they claim there is never money.

The worse of all is Janusz Wojcik

@Dougpol: you cannot judge the life quality of a place simply by the bands who come once in their lifetime play for an hour or even less ;). Katowice is the pits and Gliwice a rat hole...and no reason to end up there when coming from abroad unless coming from similar place ;)

@Beaware: even if it's true, do not give names! This could be dangerous for you.

Nah - just putting Smurf right because I lived in Katowice for 23 years and I am the Kato expert on this board - not him :) ROFL.

PS Joe Cocker played for 2 hours and 5 minutes and it were fab :)

PS Gdynia has the number one rating of any city in Poland but has the shockingly rubbish Open'er - my 22 year old gives it a ZERO rating - and there are never any good bands here at acceptable prices... OK there was Eric Clapton in 2008. EC was there, and so was I :)

But the OP should know that Katowice,and it's satellite of Gliwice, today are better for students than Warsaw for making friends if you are the sociable type, Warsaw being a city that the Germans destroyed, and Gdansk, a city that the Russians destroyed.

IMHO of course.

The guy who is badmouthing lecturers... well, to name names is rather cheap? And subjective, when he is condemning subjectivity?

According to your comments, I guess going to Gliwice will be suicidal since im used to the 24/7 activities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Meh, i'll give Riga a shot.

@Doug! Hi! My goodness ..... 23 years in Kato!!!! You really deserve a medal! ;). I spent 2 months there in 1990, 4 months in 1998/1999 and since 1990 I have gone there often or a few days (my husband was from there) but there is no way I could have lived there. I agree they have done a lot (thanks, EU's euros ;)) in the center but outside of 2 or 3 (small) streets in centrum, it's still the pits. Let's not even talk about pollution. 2 weeks ago, last time I was there for the day, I cleaned my face after a few hours and the cotton disk was .... black (in Warszawa it is never so ;)) so imagine the crap people there breathe every day. Respiratory diseases go galore there ...

I saw Katowice for the first time in March 1990 and I was under shock. You must have been there at the time too. Yes, you deserve a medal!

One good thing though re Katowice: I find people very friendly and very talkative (in comparison with Warsaw for instance)

@Beaware: even if it's true, do not give names! This could be dangerous for you.

It cannot be dangerous for me. It has never been, I laughed at them and they were ****** off, that is what makes them angry. I know polish students who have to make a year or more longer just for a simple inflexibility and arrogance of a certain professor. Anyway, once working outside Poland, I met a relative of one of those professors, I was in a ''boss'' position to him, I treated him nicely anyway, not like his stupid relative.

Why do all of you say that getting a degree from Poland is useless? I don't really understand

Perception is (still) many people's reality, Joey! It's unfortunately all about people's mere perception of things, and not the reality of how they truly are:-)