Reviews of professor Mac Strand

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Strand is passionate and tends to go on long tangents and go over lecture time. I struggled with how to take notes for his lecture since he uses mostly pics on his PowerPoint. However, if you have a good TA, they can be helpful. I relied on mine heavily. BIGGEST tip; ask questions and they will borderline tell what will be on exams and quizzes.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A nice guy, but hard to follow. Would go on tangents about things nobody had an idea what he talking about. Only graded based on tests

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Wonderful professor. I don't understand why people are saying it was impossible to know what would be on his exams. I just went through his slideshows/ read the info on the bottom and I never scored below a 90% on any exam. Must attend class and listen though, since he explained the slides more thoroughly in person.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Strand was a really fantastic professor, and his tests were fair. Contrary to other reviews, his lectures were all interesting and related to topics we were learning about. Everything for the exam was included in his slideshows. If you looked at the slides to study, it was not difficult to tell what would be on the exam. Just show up and listen.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Strand is very passionate about the material. However, he expects you to master it. Both classes I've taken from him are lecture heavy and are graded off of very few exams (and maybe quizzes too). He expects the students to calculate their grades and was often late to lecture.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Your only chance for good grades is the exams. It is really hard to know what you are supposed to know from the lectures to pass the exams, so most of the time kids show up and just guess for half the exam. He will give you half of the exam questions in class, but the other half of the exam is basically impossible to study for.