Reviews of professor Oleg Firsin

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I've taken Pr. Oleg a couple of times before. He is a very nice person and he encourages students to ask questions. Lectures may be difficult but he is willing to help students and to make accommodations to the grading criteria if it will benefit the class. He also is known to curve test and is usually my first choice when picking classes

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Firsin's lectures are extremely unengaging and it is poorly structured. He zooms through difficult processes on Excel and expects you to learn from it. There was two take home exams that are fairly difficult but he does give partial credit. And there is a group project that had NO structure or clear expectations. Overall a mediocre teacher.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Easiest A in history. He curves everything a considerable amount because most people bomb the exams, but those that do still get a C or B. Very caring person, is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to the course content. Course is heavily predicated on use of Stata, which is not fun to use, get a good group to the problem sets you're good.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Firsin is a fairly new professor, so he's still learning. That said, the lectures were extremely boring and unhelpful. Doing in-class problems and problem sets are the only teaching method that works. Open-note exams and pop-quizzes. Class averages for the two exams were still around 50%, but he gives a decent curve. Overall nice guy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a great professor to get the stat credit out of the way. He does in person exams but everything is multiple choice and study guides so your not lost and does heavy curves to make sure everybody does well in the class. The bad part is his lecture slides are sometimes 40 slides for a certain chapter but he provides a lot of help and extra cred

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Attendance was not mandatory, but his lectures explained everything extremely well and thoroughly. The later projects were nigh-incomprehensibly complicated for the short amount of time, but all the regular work was very clear.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Firsin is not the best teacher because he's not engaging at all. best thing about his class was that it was recorded and you can rewatch the lectures, pause, and then follow along to do the hw easily. A lot of hw, group proj is kinda intensive & He does curve exams (open book. TBH I hated this class but still got an A so it's kinda worth it

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Probly your best interest not to skip because you do half the hw in class. That being said theres alot of it. Not necessarily his fault though because excel is an extensive subject. Get through the gauntlet of hw and you'll be set for a good grade. The exams are basically the homework. Hes a nice guy though, just talk to him if you got any gripes