Reviews of professor Joshua Peschel

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures are sometimes repetative and slow but if you go to class and learn the techniques he shows you can get an A in this class. Nice and helpful prof if you go his office hours but they are crazy early. The homework is for def way harder than the exams but it does make the exams easy since they are open book and notes and there is bonus points.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is the best class I have taken in graduate school.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Attending lectures helps as he explains things very in-depth, but in a way that is easy to follow and understand. The Canvas course is very clear. The assignments aren't super easy, but he is more than willing to help when you have questions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very poor lecturer. He never teaches what he expects you to do on his homework that is outrageous. He expects you to do insanely challenging problems and is little to no help when you ask for help on the said assignment. His lectures are always behind the homework. The tests are poorly written and the questions are weighted very heavy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class has 5 tests in total, you get a cheat sheet for each of them, yet they still get progressively harder. This is okay because the final is just going back and doing corrections, where you can get full credit even if you failed it. Peschel is pretty good overall, he does review right before each test which is very helpful. Labs are long.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible lecturer; the course crawled along at a snail's pace, but the homework followed what the course schedule should've been. The homework was always at least a week ahead of what the topics in lecture were. Exams were graded inconsistently across students and were poorly put together. The course was much more challenging than previous years.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures were packed poorly, sometimes it felt way too slow, sometimes it felt way too fast. Goes into too much detail on things that don't matter, most people didn't pay attention at all. Grading is super easy, and if you pay attention at all you should do well

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class was not run well.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A lot of the learning done in this class was self-taught. I didn't miss a lecture but rarely found them useful. The lab for the class was just a preview of the upcoming lecture. It takes him a while to respond to emails if he even chooses to respond. Tests were multiple-choice, no partial credit with some questions being as much as 30% of the exam.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures aren't very well done, he goes too much into detail and makes many mistakes with math. He also doesn't seem to care very much.