Reviews of professor John Zinda

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm surprised to see such negative feedback for Zinda. He genuinely wants his students to learn, so he allows corrections for credit and limits the amount of points you can get removed for late submissions. If you take the time to do assignments, you will get more than fair credit. He is an absolute expert in GIS, and his demonstrations show it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Terrible professor who assigns exorbitant amount of work. He could not care less about his students. When people speak up and are critical of the fact that he assigns way too much work for a 3 credit class and grades too harshly, he gaslights them into thinking they are insane and changes nothing. He also never gives feedback on anything.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Grading unclear the whole semester. Grading changed b/c COVID but he said they weren't causing a few people in my class to S/U when they didn't need to. Additionally, we had to go to outside lectures which, again, was not made clear early in the semester. You are going to have to read a lot if you want to do good. Also a harsh grader on assignments

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Zinda is tough but fair. He knows his stuff and expects you to engage with the material.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do not take this class! Save yourself from arbitrary grades

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I've never had a professor before who doesn't know his own material. He literally reads from a script in class and cannot teach without it. It's very unprofessional and makes it hard to understand what he's talking about because he's essentially reading an essay out loud.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
taking prof zinda's course is like having a semester-long headache. he's uptight, nervous, scattered, and strangely unsettling. He reminds me of the Steve character in Fresh. big red flag. Because of prof. Zinda, my close friend dropped the course a few weeks in...He's never dropped a course in his life.