Reviews of professor Steven Hamilton

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a funny Australian man obsessed with Twitter. The class is not terrible if you can do basic calculus. Just read keywords in textbook-never really used. Midterm and finals are very similar to homework. Pop quizzes suck but do not count for a lot. Take the class if you need it for a requirement, don't otherwise.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really engaging lectures that keep topics fun and interesting. You have to attend class to do well, but it's worth going to anyways. Tough homework problems and tests but his office hours are very helpful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Steve is a really good teacher, and is enthusiastic about the topic, but he's bad at being a professor. He shows no interest in helping students outside of class, making himself available, or responding to students' emails. He's rude to students and enjoys trolling them. Great class, but beware that he does the absolute minimum to help you out.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Hamilton is the worst professor I have ever had. He routinely skips office hours and fails to posts the quizzes. He is inaccesible by email, so there is no means to contact him. No grades have been shared with students with less than a week left of school. I advise fellow students to avoid him at all costs.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Hamilton has been one of the best econ professors that I've had. His lectures are pretty engaging but he doesn't use slides so the class material is your notes. There are 4 problem sets, which are grade boosters because he walks you though the problems if you go to office hours. There are 5 "pop" quizzes, a midterm, and a final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Definitely hard, but amazing class and professor. You go to office hours and he'll explain everything down to the smallest details and in such a way that it's easy to understand. Midterm felt like a lot of work, but the final felt like a breeze after studying. You will have to put in effort, because the readings and formulas matter a lot.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Steve is a great person to know, but as a professor, not the best. He takes forever to grade, he admittedly states that he doesn't respond to student emails, and has no slides to refer to after class. If you are good at remembering content by listening, then you will be set. Pop quizzes are not hard if you do the readings and pay full attention.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is the best econ prof I had in college. His lectures are incredible. I had no idea how many cool things can be done with tax data and the theory behind it. He is also hilarious and super easy to talk to and the kind of prof who wants to invest in his students. All econ majors should take this class before the graduate.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I expected a lot from this professor after hearing so many good things about him, but he is not the one for online classes. He is always late in recording lectures and sending them, which messes up our schedule. Moreover, he replies like a week later when you no longer need the answers.