Reviews of professor James Wray

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Wray is very nice and cares about his students but lectures are a little tedious. You don't have to go to class but he says a lot of specific in class that are on tests. Labs are very easy and don't take long. If you're a non-science/engineer major take this class

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy, but pretty average professor. Lectures are not engaging at all and he posts them online right after class. Write a joke on the back of your test and you might get +2.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a really nice guy who has a lot of research experience in EAS fields. He can tend to go off on tangents during lecture about his own research, so his lecture may not be the most productive for learning.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Wray is my man, he just nerds out about Mars every class, lectures are interesting and entertaining af, tons of extra credit opportunities, literally show up to lecture and remember like 60% of it and you get an A on the test. Labs are easy to get 100% on and <1 hour, but there's a quiz at the start of every lab so don't be late. Take this.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Because of the pandemic, the class went online for a large portion of the year. The lectures were fairly straight-forward, and the information was presented in a really nice manner. The lecture quizzes were straight from the lectures. The labs take a good amount of time to complete, but they are fairly easy to finish.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Wray is one of the best professors I have ever had. Witty, incredibly knowledgeable, and very approachable. Makes lectures super engaging, especially when he talks about his own research. If you take the undergrad version of 4370, you can get a ton of extra credit by completing grad-level problems on homework. Take Physics of Planets with him!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I loveeee Prof. Wray. Personally I think hes a funny guy and though his lectures were sometimes a little off-topic hes a great lecturer! Theres a lot of extra credit in the class to boost your grade and the tests are literally everything from the slides

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class isn't too difficult but his lectures are unbearable, and the tests have questions straight out of left field. He reads off the slides as if it's too his first time seeing them. He spends first 15 minutes of lecture just talking about how he loves Mars, which isn't even tested on! TLDR; class: not too difficult besides test. Wray? HARD NO

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Wray is an incredibly smart guy with incredible lectures. He often speaks about his research in class and gives a lot of interesting information on NASA's Mars exploration projects very often on the lectures. He is a must for EAS 1601! Easy A and interesting class!