Reviews of professor Ben Olguin

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ben is an interesting professor and an incredibly talented intellectual. He made his classroom very welcoming, and although sometimes he would go off-topic in his lecture, I really enjoyed his talk most of the time. Go to his office and chat with him! You'll be surprised how knowledgable he is.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Zero absence policy, but amazing readings provided.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The material itself is pretty interesting and the content is not too difficult. The professor and his lectures were pretty disorganized. He was not very communicative in regards to what was expected of his students and he would change readings with very little heads up. Overall the course is interesting, but I would not take it again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Olguin is honestly the most unreasonable professor I have ever had. Beyond that, he is extremely rude and disrespectful to his students. If you miss one class, your grade will drop 10%, even the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. He thinks that because he offers a few extra credit assignments that unaccessible to most students, its okay.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Ben is an amazing professor who knows his stuff and brings joy and humor to the classroom. He can get behind in grading which is made up with flexibility and his laid back teaching approach. In addition, I enjoyed thinking outside the box on certain topics and having my opinions respected. Easy A if you stay on top of the quizzes and final project.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The professor is very beta and the entire class is just turning in versions of a huge research paper. Do not take

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Bad bad not good, lectures are mandatory but also aimless. Doesn't teach a lot of content just rambles, uses ancient PowerPoint style, talks about himself MUCHO. Has no empathy but operates under a "woe is me" attitude. Thinks he's doing everyone a favor. Do yourself a favor and take any other class :)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Uses a bizarre class structure I've never heard of before. Will dock your grade by 10% if you miss class. Lectures are full of contrived depth and lack basic structure. Calls on students at random to purposely put them on the spot. Overall negative experience, take literally any other class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mandatory attendance. 3,000-word essay is due at the end. Not fun.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ben takes this class too seriously and doesn't really deliver. Rules and regulations of the course are far too strict with little reasoning. Feels like a power trip for the professor. I am pretty bummed that I got stuck with this class. Would not recommend it to my worst enemy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Ben is more interesting as a man than a professor, but nonetheless I did leave the class with new insight on many topics that other professors wouldn't dare to bring up. Whole class is geared to help you on your final project, which is either a 10-pg research paper or a creative project. Was supposed to be a poetry class though, (it wasn't). Easy A