Reviews of professor Kevin Vessey

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Most inconsiderate professor I have ever had. With the switch to online classes he increased the weight of the final to 50% and then marked it incredibly harshly. I don't know anyone who got over a 75% even though we were all prepared. He ignored emails and refused to even send us a copy of our exam to see why we did so poorly. I do not recommend.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's a really great lecturer, and was pretty nice, but you better be ready to study, because those exams were something else

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
he is disrespectful, does not care about students. told me to get over my test anxiety and insulted me on my writing and my intelligence and then laughed at his comment. this was in a meeting to help me prepare for my final exam. he is terrible .

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I only had him for the lab portion so I can't speak on what he's like for lectures, but I found him to be really nice and easygoing. The only issue I had with him was that he didn't give any outline for the lab exam, which is why I rated him lower. I definitely recommend making a class group chat.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The hardest class I have ever taken. He expects way too much on the tests and the formatting of them makes it very difficult to do well. The class average of both our midterms was low 50s.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Toughest grader Ive had yet. Doesnt explain what you do wrong on exams and doesnt give tips for future ones. When I reached out still had no help with anything. Highly recommend taking another prof if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Vessey is truly awful. Exams are 3 questions that sound great at the start until you find out that he wants 500-word essay-style answers for each in 1 hour. The questions he asks are extremely broad however when giving feedback wants an EXTREMELY specific answer. Covers material in absolutely no depth so self teaching is a must.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Since Vessey didn't use a textbook, you have to go to lectures because his slides don't have enough content on their own. Although the lab and papers were easy to get good marks in, on midterms he is very picky as to how you define topics. Overall, if you go to class and pay attention, he teaches the material pretty well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
As a prof he was tough (esp on exams) but as a person AWFUL. Not sure if my experience with him was unique or not, but judging by the comments I doubt it. He embarrassed me badly in front of the lab for asking a question of his TA that he overheard by making fun of my intelligence, and during an office hour visit made fun of my ideas for a paper