Reviews of professor Micha Elsner

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
While the lecture does get a bit dry and easy to get lost in sometimes, it's easy enough to pick up the general idea that's trying to be communicated, and he's more than willing to stop and explain things as needed. The class is incredibly easy, and there's loads of extra credit opportunities on top of that (median 96% w/o EC). Would take again.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Made sure, or at least tried to give everyone a good grade. More of a critique of 3801 than him but the final projects are an insane amount of work and the quizzes require a ton of reading. This class was a lot more work than anticipated. His lectures are pretty boring but he also tries to give students answers to exams if they show up for review.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very difficult to listen to and not good at teaching the material. Would recommend getting another professor if at all possible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Regret enrolling in this course and was very close to dropping it. Micha's lectures are difficult to sit through as he is a very bland and awkward lecturer. He is clearly extremely anxious talking in front of people and is not a good communicator. Somewhat knows what he is talking about but is terrible at explaining concepts and teaching.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Was very close to dropping the class. Micha is extremely boring and like other raters have said, a terrible communicator. He also makes the female students feel very uncomfortable and is genuinely creepy. Would highly recommend you dont take this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Would not recommend. He is very awkward and lacks any sort of confidence when teaching. To make matters worse, he is very dull when describing the course material and is not good at explaining anything. A lot of unnecessary work for a gen ed course as well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Unless you genuinely enjoy linguistics, I would not take this course. If you love linguistics, perhaps you could find it interesting but I dreaded being in class because of how boring and dull it was. Micha is really awkward and not the most likable guy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I loved Micha! He's a kind of an awkward guy but I found it very endearing, and he actually is super funny/witty. He's very knowledgeable but also admits when he doesn't know something. There's a lot of work on the semester-long project but he walks you through it and lets you resubmit for more points. Very helpful, nice, super nerdy. 10/10.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I very much disagree with other comments. I loved Micha! He is knowledgable, approachable outside of the class, and witty. Would recommend taking his course but be ready to work and learn a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Hands down one of my favorite classes. As long as you showed up, put in the effort to do the homework, and actively helped in the group projects you got an A. The midterm is a bit scary, but as long as you can do the homework you can do the midterm. Professor Elsner is a great and funny guy, he cares about the students and wants to help them.