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JakeyKakey   
28 Apr 2013
Life / Have you wonder how to recognise a Polish person on the street? [21]

The article is stupid, though I'd actually argue the sentiment is kinda accurate, just for a certain subset of the Polish population here. Uneducated, speaking very poor English, no real desire to integrate themselves, merely hanging around stockpiling the paychecks away or blowing them on alcohol. As far as youth go, only a slight step-up from Poland's native tracksuit-wearing dresiarzy or British chavs. You obviously don't spot all the nicely integrated Poles because there's literally nothing for you to see, meaning it's just down to the ones that stick out like a sore thumb in the first place. And I hate to break the news to you, but if you have to resort to saying kurwa in each sentence like a comma in order to express yourself, there's a high chance you're really not one of Poland's brightest and most cultured lads.
JakeyKakey   
8 Apr 2013
Study / How hard is it to get accepted to Wroclaw University of Technology? / Unis in general? [37]

Not in English you can't. You'll be paying quite a bit of money, and there aren't any student loans to support you.

rekrutacja.pwr.edu.pl/content/strona/EN/Fees.html
I know a lot of them do require you to pay, but WUoT specifically doesn't. Kind of a shame everyone seems to sound so cynical about it though.
JakeyKakey   
8 Apr 2013
Study / How hard is it to get accepted to Wroclaw University of Technology? / Unis in general? [37]

What did you mean DominicB ? That Wroclaw University of Technology is 3rd in Poland? I don't get this comparison with Imperial.

He meant that on a scale of 1-10, if London's Imperial College was a 10, WUT would be a 3. Which is fair enough, though the so-called 'World Rankings' kinda suffer a massive anglo-centric bias where the Top 100-200 is practically all American/British/Canadian/Australian unis with like maybe one major foreign uni per country which I personally find kinda iffy. Yeah, the top 50 unis might be objectively that much better, but later down the line I kinda find it a lot less believable that your best Italian/German/French/Spanish/Polish/Russian etc. unis are truly worse than an average US/UK university rather than someone out there doing the rankings half-asses it when it comes to assessing foreign universities.

Besides there's no chance in hell I'm getting into Imperial and I'd still have to pay the same £30-£40k tuition for a mediocre English uni, while as a EU-national I can get free education at what is essentially one of the best if not the best technical uni in Poland.

And thank you a lot DomincB, for putting a lot of my initial concerns at ease. Yeah, I've heard a lot of similar complaints before, but such can be penance for slacking off and getting myself to this state, these last two years. As you said, it doesn't get much better than that, Poland-wise, and the place still carries a fair amount of prestige so I guess I'll just have to work my arse off to get through the first year. As I mentioned, I do have the advantage of having already done a Computing A-Level to cover all the Comp Sci basics as well as a Maths A-Level that, in terms of complexity, ended up roughly a year ahead of even the extended-Maths matura, so right now will be a fine time to start going through my old books like a madman up until October. :D

Sorry, double-posting because the other reply came up as I was in the middle of writing:

I did consider resitting exams, but I had plans for a 2012/2013 apprenticeship that ultimately fell through leaving me essentially until 2014/2015 to actually be able to apply through UCAS which is kind of a long time. I'm also a bit of a 'live with my mistakes' kind of guy because frankly I feel like I'm going to need that failure and lack of safety net to really keep me motivated not to slack off. Besides, I do kind of want to get out of Britain because a) outrageous tuition fees hike and b) wanting to strand myself out there in order to grow up, improve my social skills, the whole shebang and Poland happens to be the most convenient mix of both new, yet familiar.
JakeyKakey   
7 Apr 2013
Study / How hard is it to get accepted to Wroclaw University of Technology? / Unis in general? [37]

Merged: How difficult is it really to get into Wroclaw University of Technology/Unis in general?

Hey, native Pole here, though I spent a better part of my life living in UK. My GCSE's were excellent, but I had a bunch of personal issues during my A-Levels that prompted me to drop the ball quite a fair bit and end up with mere C/D/D which isn't as terrible as it could have been but it's certainly not worth the effort of going to some sub-par uni in UK only to deal with the raised tuition prices. I'm considering going back to Poland to study an English-language Comp Sci course at WUoT seeing how it'd be nice to get back into the ol' country while also having the convenience of being pretty bloody fluent at both languages, but I'm worried my less-than-stellar results might get in the way. I'm definitely capable of way more than that (having generally gotten all of my **** together since then) and doubt I'll struggle much in the first year considering I've covered a lot of the stuff I'll be doing already during my A-Levels, but there's a lot of hearsay and unreliable information going around regarding actually getting accepted into the foreigner's/English-lang courses. The common opinion that seems to be going around is that the unis are generally pretty lenient on the admissions themselves, then leave you to fend for yourself with regards to whether you can actually make it through the hardships of your first semester, but for all I know, that could very well just be a load of bollocks. Can anyone offer some advice with regards to this?