Reviews of professor Jacob Smith

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I am writing this comment solely to say that you better have friends or make friends in this class who you can work on the assignments with. It's a collaborative effort. Lecture is kind of a waste of time butttt reusing code from lecture exercises is sometimes very helpful so keep that in mind. One final group project that rly matters.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is the best professor I've had if not one of the best. Sure his lectures can sometimes be boring but he really cares about his students and is very understanding of their struggles and circumstances. Also very responsive via email

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
It was his first time teaching this class, so he was a little disorganized with his notes. Often there would be mistakes in his notes. He would also cancel class often due to many reasons, this may sound like a positive but when trying to learn a 300-level calculus course you need a competent teacher who is willing to help students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
STA 199 is a relatively easy class, especially if you have any prior coding experience. Professor Smith was very helpful with troubleshooting and made grading criteria very clear on assignments. You do labs with a group of two other people for the whole semester, so try to find people you know in your lab section so that you can work with them.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Jake is a nice guy but honestly he was much better with precalc than he was in calc. He takes forever to grade exams and respond to emails. He was also experiencing a lot of personal issues during our class which probably effected it. Overall he's a nice guy, just study outside of class as he doesn't do many examples

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Such a strange and weird dude. Class was indeed not too bad though, especially if you have prior coding experience. Group work sucked for me because I didn't choose the best mates.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really good professor who understands the material, I'm taking another math class from him. The lectures are just going through and filling out guided notes, but he explains the material well and makes it entertaining.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Doesn't respond to emails quickly. When asked questions gives very unclear answers and one time even said he is not the person to ask that. The whole class fails the quizzes but he has done nothing to help other than give very vague review sheets that he does not go over with the class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Had him for precalc and it was a repeat of my most recent high school math class so i thought it was pretty straight forward. Seems like a good guy and he was a fairly new professor when i took his class so I am not gonna go too hard on him. A lot of his class is just him going over practice problems quickly so beware of that.