Reviews of professor Brian Hayashi

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst school experience in my life and I went to public high school. Been brought to tears countless times in this class, and if you're in any with him, withdraw while you can. His paper guidelines are like, "compare and contrast." That's it. On what? Fail the paper for guessing. I ask him for clarification and his answer is "don't worry about it!"

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Hayashi believes he is above everyone else. If you try to email him with questions he does not respond. Do not take his class unless you enjoy writing, because the entire grade is based off of five 4-point outlines, 2 papers based on books, and the final exam. It feels more like an English class than a History class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Hayashi is easily the worst professor I've had during my four years at Kent State. He is misogynstic, elitist, and creates stories around a sentance he "read in a paper somewhere." He also failed to provide any direction whatsoever on our assignments and made everything due at the end of the semester. BEWARE.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super nice. Knows a lot about history ,but seems to care more on how we write. He should be an English professor instead. He gives out 3 novels with a 5-page essay and an outline due once a week.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy but he doesn't realize that not everyone in the class is interested in history and knows what he is talking about. The lectures are very long and if anything it is more of an English class because there is a lot of reading and typing papers.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He tells us that we took this class to learn how to write, but that is not what this class is about, it is about modern america. He also talks more about japan than he does modern america. He also never puts in grades so you do not know what your grade is at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
History of Espionage was genuinely one of the worst classes I had during my college career. I wanted to enjoy this class, but Brian speaks to people as if they've never held a book in their hands. He does not demonstrate a basic understanding of technology, so be ready to take a class straight out of the 1970s (regardless of the historical content)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Brian Hayashi is one of, if not the worst professor I have ever had. He constantly and consistently goes on tangents that do not relate to the class. He does not use presentations successfully, rather he opts for a verbal lecture, which is hindered by his side stories. He lacks basic historical facts and severely lacks in the technology department.