Reviews of professor Irina Garces

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Super nice and helpful. Was always there in office hours and took the time to explain any questions very clearly. The midterm was harder than the quizzes (she warned the class), but she marks the "process" not the "final answers", so very fair. Class notes were very complete, and you had to be in the lecture to add all the extra annotations.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She explains things really well during the lectures and is even better in one on one during office hours. Replies to emails immediately and is to to get a hold of for office hours. Midterm and final were fair. Handwriting is hard to read sometimes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures would be better if 3 (1h) times a week, rather than 2 (1.5h) times a week, because the material is too heavy. She makes it enjoyable and takes the time to explain everything. Hardest class in 3rd year-2nd semester, but good prof. Provides extra example problems in e-class. Make sure you do them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She came in the class wanting to stimulate interest in solid mechanics, but she BLEW IT. Her in class examples are trivial, handwriting is exteremely messy, skips steps. When she "explains" a concept it creates more confusion and questions that she can't answer. The department shoud NEVER EVER get a GRAD student to tech a 300 level core class again

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is new at teaching and it shows. She makes many mistakes in class, can't teach to save her life, and will only give out the notes you need to print out the night before the lecture. I tried 3 times to go to office hours but she wasn't there. Her writing is also too messy and she goes too fast. The inclass examples are way easier than the tests.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Seminars and assignments were ok. Study class problems for tests!