Reviews of professor Roman Kitsela

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Roman's class is just frustrating. 1, His lecture is not engaging at all. His lecture style is like doing his own stuff by himself, he explains but it's almost like he is talking to himself. 2, HW and tests are very heavy. 3, tests on weekends, 4 didn't learn much, Khan academic videos could have done a better job.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I understand that he's teaching both 20E and Math103A at the sametime. However, not grading the homework before the final and not giving us the midterm grades and answers until week 5 of summer session is kinda weird. Teaches fine but absolutely lacks the ability to respond to emails or piazzas.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The man wastes more time fixing small errors on iPad instead of re-writing. Disorganized, sloppy, and unprepared. He finished grading all HW after final then gives us 2hr window to "request regrade." Never responds to emails - LITERALLY. Lacks communication (gen.) with students. Just read the book and you will learn more. DO NOT TAKE him, please.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
bruh worst professor that i have ever taken at UCSD. We've already taken the final exam and he still has not graded half of the homework (which is long and tedious af) and when he does, he grades it so hard LOL. This professor is a joke.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
DO NOT TAKE HIM He never read emails. You have to do tons of homework. This is the worst class I have taken in UCSD

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Don't take Prof. Kitsela's class during summer sessions, especially online. He gives LOTS OF homework and the grading takes forever so there's no way to get feedback before tests. And his exams are LONG and HARD with pretty much no curve.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is highly unresponsive to emails and unresponsive to the suggestions of students. Uninspired and highly discouraged.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor does give a lot of homework but I don't think it's completely unbearable unless you're saving it for the last minute. If you do 5-6 problems a day, then it's easily manageable. He claims exams should only take 3 hrs, but they take me (& many others) well over 8 hours. I understand we have a 12 hr window, but 8 hours on an exam is insane

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The man makes a simple task seem complicated. Unresponsive to emails although he says "email me once more" yet he continues to not respond. Lots of homework, heavy test. Grading policy is nice and he is accessible outside of class. Does not send out notifications or updates to the direction of class. Messed up on grades but did not notify students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Never responded on piazza the entire quarter and assigned insane amounts of hw every week that took me a couple of full days per week to complete. He would solve a simple problem when the hw had problems 10x the difficulty. Final took me FIFTEEN+ HOURS to finish. This class was harder than the entire ochem series combined. Don't take him.