Reviews of professor Steven Pentland

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a nice guy, but aimless. I think this is his first experience with this class - he's changed the class schedule weekly, had to completely change test formats when he realized it took his students 3+ hours to complete the first test, and dropped some assignments completely. Seems more interested in research than putting together a decent course

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Steven Pentland seems to care a lot about his students succeeding which I appreciate. The downside is that the material offered is extremely disorganized and too dense to understand. Weekly assignments take a few hours to follow and most of the time are not teaching much at all. Please take a different ITM professor if you can.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Pentland is a nice guy who makes himself available if you have questions. It's a bit homework-heavy (average 3 things due a week), but they're not hard at all. Easy A as long as you do the work. Two exams during the semester and the final is a group project. Offers multiple options for extra credit and drops multiple of your lowest grades.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The course itself was designed by a different professor. The first two-thirds of the semester is just busy work with vocab and reading and two exams. Instead of having an actual final there is a project that takes over 10 hours to complete. The project was the only difficult part of the course. Do not buy the textbook, just get the access code

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took ITM 310 with this teacher. It is a passive lazily run class. No class online version consisted of recycled information and self teaching from a cluttered text book. Project instructions are clear but vary heavily sometimes they are easy to understand sometimes they are overly complex.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I received a good grade but assignments & projects were not clear despite pages of instruction. Grades you on material you have not yet learned in the class. Spent basically all my time on this class. Expects you to complete normal weekly assignments as well as study for exam and take exam all in the same week. Too stressful and confusing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The course was designed by another professor, but Pentland is a chill guy and his class was once a week. Quizzes were easy, two tests weren't hard but had some very stupid questions in both. Weekly projects using software like Access or PowerBI where you literally just follow step by step instructions. Final group project isn't hard, just tedious.