Life / Poland: worst teeth in the world? [98]

I mean.... I will admit that I had a Herbst appliance and braces on for a total of 3+ years and about a billion trips to the dentist when I was younger (several teeth pulled out, a billion cavities despite the fact I cared for my teeth, etc etc), but I'm surprised that Poland has the worst statistics haha

Study / Going to Medical School in Poland (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn / and others) [51]

I know that the one in Krakow is good, like someone mentioned above, and my friend recently started medical school in Poznan but then transferred to one in Warsaw since she has more family/friends there. I'm also considering going to medical school in Poland like her; it's way cheaper than med school in America, you don't have to deal with undergrad bullshit like you do her in the US, and I know plenty of people who have become very successful doctors after going to med school in Poland (my dad being an example!). Alot of people say that it's extremely difficult/near impossible for a foreign trained doctor to get all of the good fellowships in the US (like dermatology and radiology), but if you're in no rush to start working/don't need to, you can wait a year or two and they'll most likely take you if your scores are good enough/you've got past experience with another specialization/internship. Either that, or you can transfer to a US med school during your 5th/6th year and graduate from there, thus putting you in the same position as all of the other Americans. (also, I've looked online and people say it's ridiculously hard to get transferred too.... but we know some friends who managed to do it)

Anyway, I kind of rambled and started talking about something completely different than you asked for, but I figured I'd throw my 2 cents in anyway. The majority of the schools are pretty good, but some of them are geared more so towards certain specializations so you should always take that into account. When cities are concerned, I always hear awesome things about Krakow.

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

So, I actually came across this site because I randomly googled "girls with bigger noses" and went to images; the first image that popped up was Wyspianska's from page 15, and we have slightly similar noses haha. My sister and I always talk about how some people look ridiculously Polish and that it's just so incredibly easy to tell, and of course, whenever we fly through Chicago, it's always easy to spot the Polish people in the airport (and the moment you hit Warsaw.... it's always full of comments about how Polish a certain person looks hah). Definitely not a bad thing though! I like that some people look distinctly Polish, but I'm still not quite sure which features cause this. My whole family is Polish and this goes back for as far as I can remember (we've never dug too deep into our history, but from what we know, it's pretty much all Polish). My sister and I don't necessarily look 'American,' or atleast, I don't look like the majority of the people where I live (southern US), but she's not so sure that we have a distinct Polish look either.

also, I used to hate my 'Polish nose,' but I've honestly learned to accept/love it. I've always liked people with bigger noses but never really enjoyed mine.... but I'm starting to warm up to it. The only issue I have is when people think I'm jewish.... :( not jewish, polish!!!! ahh well.

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so, do I have any distinctly Polish features?

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]


haha but really, every polish person I seem to ask, they manage to tell me that I really don't look that polish! If anything, I have a more defined jaw line, a 'polish nose,' and a thin upper lip (which someone mentioned at some point) but beyond that, I'm not so sure. I've never randomly gotten asked if I'm from a different region/country/etc, and it's not as though I live in an area with a tremendous amount of variety/mixture like New York haha. My body type would fall under what some people described earlier as well, but I'm more so interested about facial features.

However, we did decide at some point that you can tell many poles apart from their eyes and that mine could be classified as polish (....whatever that might manage to mean), but I feel as though it's just another one of those things that you really can't define. I'll say it again, but some people just have that automatically polish look!