Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]


hmm I'm not sure, my mate went to Cranfield as a part of his last Sokrates year and he got a Msc there. He had studied for 4 years in here earlier ( 5 year studies that end up giving you a magister and engineer titles, I dunno how that translates )


I don't think they do, I've got Magister Inżynier after a normal course of 5 years, daily. And my mate has got the same title but he was attending "zaoczne" studying only on the weekends : o

On the other hand if you check the number of hours and different subjects it is visible that he did have much less exercises, lectures and laboratory hours than me.. but who would bother to check..

Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]


Well whatever you say, he's got a British Msc after 4 years here and 1 year there..

UK, Ireland / Polish TV channels in the UK [95]

5 or 6 years, is it a CRT? if it is, it might still have old SCART socket.. if it does I wouldn't recommend plugging your laptop to it. Nothing should happen really but firstly you'd need a lot of cables to connect them, secondly the quality will be horrible. I'd be careful with these cheap DVD players, my parents were trying a few and changed them rather rapidly, they often don't read all types of DVD's and start malfuctioning early on. It's better to buy one proper DVD player such as Wroclaw mentioned with a possibility to plug in some outside memory. The player should have divx codecs to be able to play most of the (pirated/ripped ;) ) movies.

If you're gonna be changing your TV soon ( 50'' HD ready tv's are around 2500 zlotys already) it would be pretty comfortable to use the laptop and stream whatever you like from it... hd ready 720p or full hd 1080p would need a D-Sub or HDMI or a VGA video interface.

Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]

Everyone fighting for "the courses I finished are the best courses and it is highly improbable any of you guys would be elligable to join or have same high education after your courses" bollocks. I say serious employers will value the information about finished courses and work experience more than the title. And following the previous though, if Cranfield rates 4 years of Polish Politechnika as enough to obtain Msc after a year then the level of education is thought of as same or similar. Or is it, that in other countries it is similar to Poland, one university is not equal to another, same with titles.

Life / You are Polish if... [433]


Now this thread is going more and more up to the wall.. I've never seen anything similar except for the "Life of Brian"s

- Let us, like him, hold up one shoe and let the other be upon our foot for
this is His sign, and all who follow Him shall do likewise.
- Follow the gourd! The Holy Gourd of Jerusalem.

Maybe it's more like you guys, prostrating in front of unanimated, not even slightly appealing objects..

Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]


So basically Msc is, one way or another, same thing as 5y Polish Magister.. different durations same title alright.

Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]


Nah it is not. Otherwise 4 years out of a 5 years Magister wouldn't be sufficient to let you even try to get the MSc, hence sometimes they are perfectly equal.

- 5 y of a magister courses give you a magister
- 4 y of a magister + 1 y of cranfield gives you MSc
The first one is exactly the same the as the second one and you do precisely same things.

Life / You are Polish if... [433]


I though this thread was about expats becoming more and more polish, about certain polish traits that foreign expats in Poland start to show after a prolong time spent with Polish people.

Life / You are Polish if... [433]


Most of the things pgtx mentioned in the first post seemed lightheartened, rather comical, along the nudge nudge wink wink lines, hence I interpreted it that way. Another thing adding to that was the fact that there were/are plenty of threads about "average generalized Pole" so a thread about expats getting Polish traits would be a breath of fresh air and something pretty interesting and entertaining... anyways nevermind, I take it all you guys in your posts were writing about yourselves ;)

News / Polish Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance [26]

this is pretty scary, can't imagine what would have happaned if somebody were to resign from "religion lessons"...

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


I kind of agree with that. Many people ask me how am I, and they usually expect "Fine thanks" in return. I'm a talkative guy so after me asking about the same thing they are saying fine thank, I usually go deeper with questions and they always seem to be annoyed.. pleasentries.. barf

News / Polish Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance [26]


Thanks :) Nobody expects spanish inquisition.


exactly, priests breeding fresh vegetables for themselves...

USA, Canada / Do you speak English? Have you lived in America? New LOVE/HATE list......... [144]


same taste? I'm not a huge beer fan myself but come on, you are either too young or haven't developed your taste yet. Come on, it's like comparaing table water with coca cola. You don't have to like them ( I don't like them personally, and prefer most Chech beers and Grolsch) but there's no way they are of the same character/taste..

Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]


That's true, many higher level Cisco, Microsoft or Sun certificates are valued above titles..

News / Polish Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance [26]


Yes you could.


Yeah, many of these have no idea what they are actually doing.. half of them chats away most of the mass..

Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]

It's not thaaat bad, I dunno what exactly you're doing as your job, average IT students get around 8-12 zlotys (after taxation ) per hour as their first job... it usually rises pretty quickly with graduation and experience..

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]


proof or it didn't happen

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]


It's not that bad, if these guys were british there would be 5 of them, each with a knife.

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

It's comical how everyone are ignoring Harry's boorish smacktalk.


Agree, sparse details he gave us are at most suspicious and flamemongering.

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

Don't feed the troll.

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

Beside if you know them, you have a witness then it shouldn't be a problem for you to get a recompensation from them and send them to prison.. if they have nearly killed you...

Work / Salary of a paramedic in Poland [22]


malopolska.do-celu.eu/magazyn/czerwiec-2009/ratownik-medyczny-praca-z-powolania

1000 - 2500zł brutto...

Work / Salary of a paramedic in Poland [22]


Yup, it's probably not that bad for most of people, my friend is a paramedic but he also works as swimming pool lifeguard.. people do different things to make ends meet. From what I heard many of them feel destined for such job, the other part can't do any better.

Life / Fashion and Style in Poland [174]


what about ogling?

Work / Salary of a paramedic in Poland [22]


Yeah, especially gp's and medicine post grads - if that's what you can call a doctor...

Life / Do Polish people help one another? [40]

In the modern rat race era nobody helps no one.

Life / Why so many Poles use a second hands clothes? [110]

Yeah.. when I was younger all my clothes were from my mother's friend of a friend of a friend who lives in west Germany and has older kids who are too big for these clothes. They were called "ubrania z rajchu".. oh sweet times, even now I sometimes have to struggle with these old notions.. ; ) "should I buy another pair of trousers.. I mean these are nearly new, just 3 years old... I mean.. I just bought them"

Food / Paczki - Receipe for polish donuts [19]

There's a few Faworki/Pączki threads, here's one for example: polishforums.com/food-drink-8/chrusty-chrusciki-recipe-5402/#msg630334

Love / Tonight, I'm asking my Polish girlfriend if she'll marry me [36]


Completely wrong ; )

"Czy wyjdziesz za mnie?" is the name of the game.. "wy" - is plural it would reassamble asking multiple people at once about marriage..

Another thing is that in Polish you have two words for getting married one for men one for women, the one you used "żenić" is for men which is incorrect in this case. "Wychodzić za mąż" is the women version ; )