Reviews of professor Joshua San Miguel

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This guys name is so cool

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He seems like a nice enough guy, but he has no concept of how much work he is assigning. I took 10 credits to have an easy semester to concentrate on other things, but this class averaged 12-15 hours of work a week, since the hws, quizzes, and exercises continue while you're trying to work on the main project. Near the end it's more like 20 hrs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I don't know how much he knows about he's teaching. Although he always says he's an architect all he did was playing other professor's videos and didn't bother answer my questions or give explanations to class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lecture videos were succinct and he gave a lot of partial credit. He was very nice and always able to meet.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I loved the 757 course here, Josh is a very dedicated professor, nice to the students. If you take this course, without any prior architecture understanding, it would obviously be hard, that is not the professor's mistake. It is not an easy course but one will surely get a chance to learn a lot. I would highly recommend the professor and the course

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Extremely vague grading criteria on group projects. He also assign A LOT of busy work and it is completely pointless. It gets to be really annoying when you have homework you could be doing for other classes, but have to spend time on the mindless homework he assigns. He also dodges any remotely difficult question you ask him.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He assigns lots of work and is very bad a teaching concepts

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Josh told many jokes in his first ten lectures, and gave us useful guidance on how to read an architecture paper efficiently. His lecture is super easy to follow, since he will go through most details with students in class, and give many analogies to understand those mechanisms. Besides a super nice guy and willing to answer any questions.