Reviews of professor Carla Gomes

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Difficult to understand during lecture. Problem sets are filled with busy work with no substance. Prelims are rife with trick questions that aren't meant to teach you anything but to make you try to catch extreme edge cases. I gained nothing from this class except for a stronger dislike for environmentalists.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took this class out of curiosity. At the end, I was filled with nothing but deep regret.
The prelims are designed to ensure you make mistakes. The problems you have to solve in prelims do reflect examples from psets, but are intentionally made more convoluted & tricky. On top of that, you get very little time to solve them. DO NOT TAKE!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Gomes is a very intelligent woman who does research in very cool areas. However, I thought that her lectures were not engaging and hard to follow. The material wasn't hard but I don't think she explained things properly. She is a very considerate teacher who is very helpful outside of class.