Reviews of professor Nicholas Lacasse

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Only 4 tests the whole semester (40% of your grade is your final which is on the whole semester) and your grade is only for those 4 tests. No mandatory homework or quizzes. Nick was a really good teacher and taught the material really clearly. However, he wrote hard tests covering a lot of material to make his students try hard

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is a very nice person and cares about his students. If you do the practice tests and homework you will do good in this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Nick is open to questions while he's teaching, and he really wants us to learn! He's very nice too!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nick is an amazing teacher. While I'm not sure if he teaches anymore, he was an amazing teacher and I had him for all of Calc 1 and Calc 2. He really cares, he's friendly, accommodating, and explains material very well. He assigns a lot more homework than other teachers, but it's worth it, his classes did better on exams than other classes.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nick is genuinely one of the nicest people I've met. He really cares about his students and is a good teacher as well. Calc 2 is a tough course, but he made it manageable. Yes, he gives a decent amount of quizzes, but they're fair ones. You also have to show work on the hw which is annoying but vastly improves your understanding.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall Nick was very enthusiastic about the overall topic but personally out of all 3 Calcs this was definitely the most challenging. I don't blame Nick for me doing poorly as he was always willing to help was very accessible outside of class if you had questions but taking this class at 8:00am 3 days a week did not help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Just an overall fair, good teacher who knows his stuff.  If you're taking a math class, you gotta choose Nick.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
pros-
- Genuinely enthusiastic/accessible

cons-
- in my experience, the amount of quizzes we had was kinda ridiculous
- BUT he gave us a second quiz drop but it was a project, it I gained nothing from, it was most DEF busy work
- compared to other teachers in calc 2, he was a lot tougher and strict with grading

take this with grain of salt

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Awesome professor, Pretty good at explaining things, and if you're confused he is very helpful at office hours. Really caring and accommodating if you reach out, responds quickly to emails and very clear on what is on quizzes. Homework can be kind of a lot or long, but it's the same for all the other classes.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I have taken Nick's class for 3 math courses: 226, 227 and calc 3. He is amazing in the way he explains things. Great balance of explanations and examples. He inspired me to pursue a math minor as I am a physics major. Wish I could have him teach all my math courses!