Reviews of professor Mark Blum

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Blum is such a knowledgeable person and his lectures are super engaging. There's a lot of readings to do, and his courses span topics that need a good amount of knowledge beforehand, but he makes sure to cover anything you may not know. Expects his students to try, but grades very fairly. I've taken 3 of his classes, and would take more.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
mandatory attendance and expensive printed pdfs, weird jokes about east asian culture unrelated to the contents and sounds condescending all the time, would kill an orphan to avoid taking this his class again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you're interested in the topic, the class will be engaging/interesting. He gives out study guides that will over prepare you for the exams, so it's an easy A if you do the work. GSIs are tough graders, but Prof Blum is kind + funny. Lots of reading + writing tho!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
mandatory $55 course reader that is just pdfs he could've posted for free. also scheduled a quiz the day after a holiday. his lectures are fine but he's weird about technology and also will cold call you to make sure you're always paying attention.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Engaging and funny professor, even though he mostly just reads off his notes. Can tell that he is very knowledgable and has a lot of insights.