Reviews of professor Matthew Endres

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not entirely sure why this guy gets so much hate. Sure his lectures were a bit boring at times, but honestly a great professor who was knowledgable, caring, and funny. His office hours were helpful as well as the recorded lecture videos (no practice questions like BIOL110, but office hours + filling out learning objectives were really helpful!)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is so funny and very understanding! He shows an amazing amount of enthusiasm about what he teaches. In all honesty, I would listen to anything he has to talk about. While he does take attendance on tophat, if you miss class, he posts lecture recordings, so it's SUPER easy to catch up. Make sure to participate in class so he doesn't get sad!!!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Endres is my favorite professor ever. He kept lectures interesting and was very good at explaining the material. I highly recommend Professor Endres for all bio classes you can take him for.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I think that the content of this class is really interesting and fun but Dr. Endress makes it difficult to understand. We do not have any resources for studying (more than Wikipedia) and the packets are not even completely graded. So even if you do a lot of effort it will be hard to have a good score on the exams if you don't go to office hours.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Be ready to write down EVERYTHING that he says during lecture since he talks about exam topics that aren't included on the slides. Lab is never in conjunction to what you're learning in class and grades heavily for no reason. Exams are hard since many of the questions are select all that apply and can be on even the smallest detail from lecture.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Endres is a great guy.  His in-person lectures may seem intimidating, but he re-records ALL of his lectures and goes into explicit detail which is so nice.  I used to lecture recordings after the 2nd exam and did not get below a high B on the exams.  He is also very available outside of class.  Weekly packets are a pain but SO helpful for exams

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Endres has definitely been one of my more entertaining professors throughout my time here at Penn State. He does get off topic a lot and is pretty funny, but if you really sit and PAY ATTENTION, he makes perfect sense. The exams are just the learning objectives (given at the start of each week) but asked in a different way. LA OFFICE HOURS CARRY!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Endres is a nice guy but his lectures are boring. Tophat for attendance but it isn't worth much of your grade. Weekly packets. Tests at pollock are hard. Lab is okay. I would take it with a more engaging professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Endres was a funny guy but awful at teaching. I think the packets were useless and just a waste of time. The only way I learned from this class was by watching the videos that he posted on Canvas. The actual lectures themselves were super boring and I couldn't learn anything. The lab was very dumb too, literally a repeat of Bio 110.