Reviews of professor Lydia Oliver

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Goes extremely fast during lectures and barely has times for questions, and she usually falls behind in lectures and leaves it to the students to watch lectures outside of class because she doesn't get through the course content. The exams barely follow the study guides and she grades extremely hard as well. Would recommend to find another prof

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Run away from her if you want to have a social life. Her homework alone is more than 5 of my other classes combined, half of which are higher-level STEM classes. Also, what does only grade randomly picked problems even mean? Just spare yourself some sanity and don't take this class from her.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lots of homework every week. Oliver is nice enough but doesn't ever reply to emails. She expects you to have prior knowledge of a lot of math functions, so she just rushes through/doesn't explain them during lectures. Definitely review the study guides before exams!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Decent lecturer. Others say she moves too fast but I disagree. I would blame the fact that calc3 is only 2 credits when it absolutely should be 3, way to much material and Prof Oliver does a decent job fitting it in. However, the written homework and tests are deadly! She is a very tough grader and there is no curve. Be prepared to study lots!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He notes are choppy and has 3 different online websites we use. She is terrible on responding to emails... LASTLY she will deduct points on the most simple things such as showing your work on how to find the domain (which i have bombed multiple assignments because i didn't show my work for domains).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a tough grader it is sorta ridiculous she did make time for me to meet one on one each week which was very helpful to be fair I didn't really watch her lectures because for some reason they are two hours long she did offer extra credit that was extremely difficult but worth it she grades so harsh and isn't a very good professor avoid her

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Oliver is a good lecturer, there are quite a few assignments due every week but not an overwhelming amount. I like that she uploads the notes before lectures so that we don't have to spend much time writing them down in class. She is kind of hard to reach outside of class. I feel like the study guides don't fully prepare you for the exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Oliver did a fantastic job teaching in the online environment. All of her lectures were straight to the point and she was great at answering questions in lecture. The homework prepared me adequately for the exams and I got 100% on every assignment and exam other than one missed question on the final. Don't be afraid to ask questions!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A ton of work for just a 2 credit course. calc 1 and 2 were both 3 credits and had a lower workload. didn't appreciate telling us to just go look on khan academy instead of actually answering questions during lecture.