Microprocessors
Course Content: Very
interesting
Difficulty: Pretty Easy
This is my favorite class this term. The professor (who also happens to be my advisor)
is an excellent lecturer, and knows the material inside and out. He literally
wrote the book on this subject, and it shows.
He has a way of explaining extremely complex things in very
easy-to-understand ways, which is a good skill to have generally, but is
absolutely required for engineers. He
really reminds me of Mr. Renner from Sisters High School: his lectures are
about 50% course content and 50% wisdom about the world/industry. Not to mention he is hilarious.
Added Bonus: learning machine code makes you
feel like you can decode the matrix.
Calculus 2
Professor Rating: Awful
Course Content:
Pretty interesting, and highly relevant to other courses I am in.
Difficulty: Harder
than it needs to be.
How to summarize this class in one sentence … Don’t read professor reviews when you can’t
transfer out of the class? Don’t give
the head of the department a teaching position?
Check your examples for glaring errors before teaching them to the
class? Put more than 10 minutes per week
into planning your lectures? That’s all good advice, but none of it has
been followed so far in this class. I
don’t really know how else to put this, but this professor simply shouldn’t be
teaching. She is arrogant,
absent-minded, antagonistic, argumentative—and those are just the words that
start with A’s... And I especially
enjoyed being singled out and chided in front of the class for using a
calculator on a quiz, after being explicitly allowed and encouraged to do
so. (“I just didn’t think you would use
your calculator for ALL of it…”)
Added Bonus: She
grades notoriously hard and hates giving partial credit.
Circuit Analysis
Professor Rating: Strangely out of place
Course Content: Dense and Uninteresting
Difficulty: Hard
This class would likely be easier had I completed the
prerequisites—one of which being Calc 2—but even if it were easier, it would
probably still be incredibly dense and dry: it’s all formula memorization. The professor is clearly very well-versed in
her field, and I don’t doubt her education at all, but she has a strange, oddly
whimsical approach to circuit analysis.
This is a science; there are right and wrong answers, and there are
correct and incorrect ways of applying an equation, yet she has this
do-what-you-feel, everyone-is-different, lecture style that is totally
inconsistent with the material itself.
It’s like she should be teaching interpretive dance or scrapbooking, but
instead we are talking about arranging op-amps and resistors. Very odd.
Added Bonus: All
students are blackmailed into purchasing a bullshit software license in order
to do the homework and therefore pass the class.
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