Reviews of professor Mehdi Salimian

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He doesn't answer emails, so I could only ask my questions during lecture. He rambled a lot so we often fell behind (and actually didn't end up completing a part of the course material because of it). My grade was ok, but not worth the anxiety this prof gave me. Thankfully don't need to repeat this course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do not take this professor if you can avoid it. I don't think he is a bad man but he should pursue another profession. He was late to various classes & would even miss classes (often informing us by email 15 mins into class time). 
It is unfortunate that SMU is continuing to allow him to teach, because students will not receive quality education.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Seems nice in person, but exams (short answer) were next to impossible to complete on time. Not very organized and slides are outdated/were used from another professor. It took forever (WEEKS) for the class to receive their final grades. Didn't answer any emails outside of the course (this was an online course). Choose another prof if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Does not answer emails, graded me horribly just out of spite(long story), he's emotional and rambles and is inappropriate. Discussed race and gender in a questionable way. Will spend entire class on 2 slides. He is unprofessional and unavailable most of the time. Worst prof I've ever had.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
he seems really friendly and overall, even though my course is still in progress im really enjoying taking a class with him. hes very approachable and good at explaining things.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I don't know how this professor became a professor. This professor is late for lectures almost every day.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Mehdi is Super unorganized and lazy. He was often late to class and all of his lectures are directly copied from our textbook. The grading was ridiculously harsh and he never taught enough material for us to be graded that harshly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures aren't necessary to attend to complete the work. The work is all online with lots of time to complete it and, the prof is super nice.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This man spends half the class explaining the basic stuff you should come into this class knowing. Every class, he'll get through about half of his slides because he rambles too much. To get through his class, just read the textbook, write the assignment for the week, and do the quiz for the week. Don't bother with the lectures, they did nothing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I felt very uncomfortable when he stopped a Stats lecture midway to make us complete course evaluations - even walking us through the questions we could be asked and told us they were mandatory to complete and that we needed to rate him highly on them. He also ranted about politics and religion in some lectures. Inappropriate.