Reviews of professor Gilberto Simpson

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You have 3 exams and a cumulative final that's 20% of your grade. The class is curved, which will help. The homework was always harder than the actual tests. Proffesor Simpson is hard to follow along, but you get used to his teaching style. He is overall a very nice guy, but your going to be doing a lot more self teaching in this course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
UIC has gotten wise to people mobbing registration for good professors, do not reveal the professor names at the last minute. That said got stuck taking this guy, and thankfully there is a course director Alycia that was amazing with recorded lectures. Super hard class without a string alg/trig base, i needed a full time tutor and got a B.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly, I didn't like him at first. His teaching seemed lackluster and inadequate.HOWEVER, after a few weeks of his lectures I became more comfortable with his teaching style and legitimately understood the material. He does frequent checks throughout the lecture to see if anyone has trouble understanding anything and is accessible outside class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
An ok professor, but just terrible lectures. He would sometimes lose his train of thought and go on rants about other topics that wouldn't be on the test. TAs helped a lot and were clear when explaining. The homework wasn't that bad and as long as you're turning it in on time and studying for the tests, you'll get good grades.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
People are too harsh with some of these reviews on Simpson. He's not a bad lecturer. He knows what he's teaching and even provides printed copies of notes each lecture for students.