When students at InstantGateway dive into oil market fundamentals, they often find themselves navigating Dorota’s classroom—a space that feels more like a workshop than a lecture
hall. Her approach? It’s structured, sure, but not rigid. Lessons are outlined, yes, but if someone asks a sharp question about contango or backwardation, she’s just as likely to
pivot and unpack that thread for the next half hour. She reads the room, adjusting her teaching to match the group—not just their knowledge level but their energy, their curiosity,
even their skepticism. Some weeks, it’s all about supply and demand curves; other weeks, they’re knee-deep in geopolitical risk scenarios because that’s what the students want to
unravel. Dorota didn’t stumble into this adaptability. It’s the product of years spent teaching students who couldn’t be more different from one another. She’s worked with fresh
graduates who are still figuring out Excel shortcuts and seasoned professionals with decades of industry jargon baked into their vocabulary. That mix has shaped her into someone who
doesn’t rely on cookie-cutter methods. She challenges assumptions—not dramatically, but in small, insistent ways that make you stop and reconsider. Oddly, her critiques don’t leave
students defensive; they leave them curious. By the end of her courses, people often say they’re looking at the oil market fundamentals “with new eyes,” a phrase that pops up in
evaluations more often than she’d probably expect. The room itself mirrors her teaching style. It’s practical, unpolished—charts pinned to corkboards, half-erased equations on
whiteboards, and sometimes even a coffee cup precariously balanced near a stack of trading reports. And while she rarely draws attention to it, Dorota’s written a handful of
articles for respected industry journals. You wouldn’t know unless you Googled her; she doesn’t bring it up. But it’s there, quietly influencing how others teach—or even think
about—this complex, volatile market. Once in a while, a student will ask her about one of those articles. She usually waves it off, though. “Let’s stay on topic,” she’ll say, before
diving back into a discussion about refining margins or OPEC+ strategies.