Reviews of professor Zachary Wolske

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Homework sets are hard, and students will often have to find a clever "trick" for most questions. Very helpful and quick to respond on forums and willing to give students a chance again by allowing resubmissions of problem sets after giving feedback to students. He genuinely wants students to understand the course material and have my respect.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Amazing! Loved his course structure and teaching style for 188. He taught well, and explained really clearly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid at all costs. He gave out a syllabus in the beginning of the semester and barely followed it. He made every possible excuse to not give grades back. He was so bad with dates he gave out assignments during the exam period. It was so bad the math department had to get involved and let people drop without penalty way after the drop deadline.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
There is a huge disparity between the difficulty of content that Prof. Wolske covers in lecture and the difficulty of his assignments. The material in lecture is often extremely basic and the concepts covered are easy to understand, and I find myself constantly underprepared for the assignments which are graded with extreme harshness and pedantry.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Wolske gives insightful lectures that leave you pondering about the material after the lecture ends. His lectures feel like he's guiding you through the material, helping you uncover it as if you were discovering it yourself. The only criticism I have is that the lectures can be much easier than the assignments, so be prepared to work hard!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Since I took the course with the other instructor, I didn't go to the lecture for Zac. However, his feedback on the forum is good and useful and he really cares about the students. I got a lot of support from him and really respect him as an inspirational professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
After having retaken MAT102 in the winter semester (he taught in fall), it was night and day. His lectures consists of him reading off his slides and doing examples. Doing examples is good, right? Except, he picks and chooses which questions to explain (and not very well, mind you) and he has a "figure it out yourself" mentality for the other ones.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
TBH I have no idea what we are doing in this class. Spending many days on each assignment and course materials and got very low marks and no curve. Haven't received any formal training on how to write rigorous proofs in this class, but this is required for assignments to make the TAs understand what we are doing. Just run plz

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very approachable, willing to help. Lots of work though.