Reviews of professor Noam Lupu

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Takes advantage of your free labor (data entry). Socially awkward guy. Seemed like he didnt really care about teaching. Gives no feedback. Delegated entire role of professor to the TA. No teaching in his class, just assigned reading. Weekly assignments with ambiguous instructions. Dont know your grade until very end. Need I say more? Nice guy tho

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Noam is pretty cool guy who really knows his stuff, but the way this class works is not my favorite. The course material is interesting but lectures can be boring sometimes. The readings are SUPER long and boring and aren't necessary to do well. Noam also grades nothing and leaves it all to the TA so they have a way bigger impact on your grade.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Nice guy, but not the most engaging speaker. Not sure if the class was boring because it was online or if it always like this...

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Lupu is very smart and highly accessible in office hours. While the lectures and readings can be a bit boring, the content itself is interesting. The TAs randomly deduct points on the assignments without much justification but it is not difficult to get an A. Class structure is very stress-free, and there are extra credit opportunities.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Your grade consists of 6 one page responses; 2 one page responses; annotations on readings; 2 midterms and participation. The assignments are very easy but the TAs just took points off for the fun of it. Lupu is funny and down to earth; I looked forward to class. Rarely spent any time on work outside of class. Content was interesting .

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Lupu is a very nice guy and has a good personality, but his lectures are not very engaging. The topic material is interesting, but the lectures can be quite boring. All of the assignments are graded by the TA and the grading structure is very unclear when it comes to earning points.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
lecture boring. all work graded by tas. tough grading for midterms. highly not recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really loved this class, but it definitely wasn't everyone's cup of tea. Lupu is a gem, very kind and intelligent. I thought the subject matter was really interesting so I was engaged in the class and therefore got more out of it than the people who tuned out. Lots of readings, not all of them are necessary. Relatively easy midterm papers.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Absolutely terrible at providing any sort of feedback. The class is very open-ended, and you will never get a single grade back on your assignments. His lectures feel like a middle-schooler half-assing a presentation, and they'll put you to bed. 65% of your grade based on your final report, which is arbitrarily graded and seemed to tank everyone.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This man does not care about teaching, and as such, is terrible at it.