Reviews of professor Adugna Olani

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great guy, terrible prof. You learn from the textbook, but even that is not helpful. Many questions are wrong &he makes up grading, exams, etc. on the spot. Won't answer emails or show to extra office hours that he says he will. Tests & quizzes seem easy, but everyone does bad. FYI, I think he curved everyone by abt 10%. He is accommodating tho

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very nice guy, not the best teacher. Lectures were unengaging. There were 2 exams and a final along w/ 8 quizzes with the exams making up a bulk of the grade. Tests & quizzes often had questions that weren't covered in class. He's fine if you felt like you understood macro, but if you struggled in macro Olani's class isn't gonna do you any favors

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doesn't respond to emails. Many questions are incorrect. Avoid.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great guy, and I actually enjoyed his class. You can see how passionate he is about what he teaches. It's inspiring.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly horrible class. Does not actually teach. Impossible to know how you are currently doing in the class and the quizzes and exams are extremely difficult for anybody who does not cheat. Avoid this class if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst teacher ever. Don't take class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He will constantly be behind in the material taught in class to the point where we will have quizzes on material not covered. most of the quiz answers are impossible to answer. Not even he knows the answer to them but he refuses to admit it. On top of that, he does not even post the readings on time so you can't get ahead or even study.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Funny guy, super nice, don't need to show up to class. Super test heavy and he isn't great at covering content. Exams are such a gamble. Final got screwed up, but it was the department overruling his decision to do an online final.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a nice guy, but he's up there with one of the worst professors I've had. Doesn't teach; doing well in this class is 100% contingent on whether you read the textbook, and even then, the TopHat program is useless and unnecessarily hard. It might as well have been an online class, because he is 100% reliant on  TopHat.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If I could have taken the class with a different professor I would have. Olani is a nice guy, but a terrible professor. He does not communicate expectations and he grades very slowly so most of the time you have no idea what to expect. Our final exam mostly covered material from the final 2 units (which we didn't cover in lectures). Avoid.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Olani's a really great guy. Very caring and understanding, even if you missed a quiz or midterm. His teaching is actually not bad-- yes he goes on tangent BUT he does explain things. the problem is the fact he doesnt make his own tests, so what we learn vs get tested on is different. he explains the basics and the test is far more in depth & harder