Reviews of professor John Hale

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Poor communication

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hale is not very friendly to his students. When you try to ask a question, he makes you look like an idiot in class. The quizzes only have 7 or 8 very specific questions. He asks questions from his lectures and specified readings. The questions are totally random and you often find yourself asking "did he even go over this stuff?"

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hale is a brilliant guy. The lectures were outstanding and the material was very interesting. His enthusiasm for the field is contagious. An extremely nice and polite person as well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Hale was a great teacher. His class was exactly how the curriculum said it was going to be. No surprises. Do what he ask and everything will just gravy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Hale was great in providing feedback and clear grading; however, he took forever to grade anything turned in the second half of the course. I tried emailing and IM'ing him and got absolutely no response. Definitely an easy class and an easy A

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Takes a long time to receive feedback, very robotic. he is an extremely hard grader. only 8 grades in totally 6 discussions two papers. He is very tough on discussions. SO MUCH TO READ. The reading amount is insane.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Hale is a smart prof and he cares, but he's not always very clear with his expectations for assignments. Being a small honors section you'd expect there to be a lot of discussion, but most of his class is lecture-based with very little student input.