Reviews of professor David Laird

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Laird is a great guy who cares alot about his students. Was skeptical going in because of his reviews here but the class was not difficult and Laird really tried to help everyone succeed. Grades were a little slow to come back at times and case assignments were a sometimes broad/ambiguous, but still a pretty easy A-/A

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Laird seems captivating at first. Do not be fooled. He talks and talks about things that EVERYONE understands the first time. He goes over about 5 min every class. He gives really unclear instructions about everything. The whole class is whack and unorganized. DO NOT TAKE.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Laird is a nice man but lacks organization and instruction when it comes to this class. Assignments were not graded in a timely manner, problematic as they built upon each other. He gave creative reign on some assignments, then graded harshly on theoretical material. Heard Murphy is easier.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Laird is pretty great! You can tell he really cares about his students and the material and he loves discussion and telling stories. There are a lot of projects and in-class assignments, but it's not too intense partially because you can tell he cares about your in class engagement/participation the most.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Laird is very unresponsive and no showed for meetings with multiple students - after them trying to contact him for over a week. His grading is very arbitrary and you don't get assignments back until weeks later. He emphasizes making the class like "real life" and being on time and serious, but doesn't act on those policies himself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Laird is a kind man with good intentions. It is a shame that his class is so bad. Class time is grossly misused. Be prepared to listen to him pontificate and run illogical circles around himself. Little application to life outside the classroom. Grades consistently returned late, giving no time for improvement on the next assignment.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Laird is as unresponsive and inaccessible as a professor gets. You can schedule meetings with him multiple times, and he will just not show up. He is a very nice guy, but provides the most vague and irrelevant criteria for graded assignments. Do NOT take this class with him, you will regret it. Wait to take with Murphy or LeBreton.