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Ertugrul Taciroglu
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Spring 2025 - Don't get it wrong, et is a great guy. But he absolutely sucks butt as a professor. I went into this class thinking that it was going to be not easy but not super duper hard. Tldr: it was super duper hard. This guy just reads off the slides that he made back 10 years ago and doesn't really add much to what's already on the slides. Lectures were sooooo boring. I stopped going around 3rd week, and sometimes I would come back but he would be even worse at presenting the material. Discussion was even worse holyyy. I got the worse of the TAs which was Devasmitt. Bro did NOT know what was going on and I remember in week 3 I asked the same question 5 different times cuz his explanations did not make sense. I remember one day he sent out a bruinlearn notification that said that no one showed up to discussion. Hmmm I wonder why. Bro also wrote on the WALL thinking it was the whiteboard when there was a clear border between the wall and whiteboard. All he said was "oh oops! It's okay though because someone also wrote on it before" pointing to the wall with a marker line on it. Bro forgot that that was him 30 minutes ago writing on the wall to test the marker. That's when I knew this class was officially cooked. Not the other TA though. My goat Haorui would never. The grading material consisted of 1 midterm 35%, 1 final 40%, 8 homeworks for a total of 25% of your grade. You'd think that the homeworks would be the easiest part. You would be wrong. Homework was insanely work heavy and required you to know MATLAB with your whole heart and being. Combined with the poor presentation of difficult material by the professor and the insane homeworks, these things took so long to do. Even A.I. couldn't help very well. The midterm was by far the easiest thing ever. It was basically a word-for-word copy of the practice midterm that the professor gave you. The average on the test was a 90%. So that leads me to the final. Ohhhhh that final still gives me nightmares. Everyone thought the final was going to be just as easy as the midterm and so most people just reviewed the practice final exam and maybe went over the homeworks and all that. There were 5 questions on that final. Tell me why I could only answer 1 out of the 5 questions fully and even that was with uncertainty. There was material on there that we had never had a chance to practice or even cover during the school year. Normally when people are taking the 3 hour final, there are the geniuses that finish an hour early, or the people that give up and want to go home an hour early. No one left their seats for 2 hours and 45 minutes. The only people that did was because they had another final in 15 minutes. I'm being so serious when I say that 95% of the students could not answer every single question. So we begged the TA for more time because at 2 hours and 50 minutes, I was still on question 4. We ended up getting 30 more minutes extra, but I don't know how much that helped. Professor comes in when the exam was supposed to end and was surprised that everyone was still taking the test. He says "Oh you're still taking the test?" We say "yes." He says "it's hard right?" We laugh and say "yes it's pretty hard." And then he says the kicker, "That's what you get for the midterm being too easy." MF YOUUUU MADE THAT TEST!! WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THE MIDTERM EXTREMELY EASY, SEE THAT THE GRADING DISTRIBUTION WAS INSANELY HIGH AND THEN TORTURE US FOR THE DECISION YOUUUUU MADEEEE???? Anyways, the reason I ended up getting an A- is because he did feel bad for making the test too hard so he offered extra credit that added 4% extra to your total grade, which is very generous. The caveat is that it was during the start of summer break, so I had to do a little more work even after finals. In conclusion, take it with Margulis the goat. If you have no other choice, just go to Haorui's office hours. Thank you coming to my TedTalk.
Spring 2025 - Don't get it wrong, et is a great guy. But he absolutely sucks butt as a professor. I went into this class thinking that it was going to be not easy but not super duper hard. Tldr: it was super duper hard. This guy just reads off the slides that he made back 10 years ago and doesn't really add much to what's already on the slides. Lectures were sooooo boring. I stopped going around 3rd week, and sometimes I would come back but he would be even worse at presenting the material. Discussion was even worse holyyy. I got the worse of the TAs which was Devasmitt. Bro did NOT know what was going on and I remember in week 3 I asked the same question 5 different times cuz his explanations did not make sense. I remember one day he sent out a bruinlearn notification that said that no one showed up to discussion. Hmmm I wonder why. Bro also wrote on the WALL thinking it was the whiteboard when there was a clear border between the wall and whiteboard. All he said was "oh oops! It's okay though because someone also wrote on it before" pointing to the wall with a marker line on it. Bro forgot that that was him 30 minutes ago writing on the wall to test the marker. That's when I knew this class was officially cooked. Not the other TA though. My goat Haorui would never. The grading material consisted of 1 midterm 35%, 1 final 40%, 8 homeworks for a total of 25% of your grade. You'd think that the homeworks would be the easiest part. You would be wrong. Homework was insanely work heavy and required you to know MATLAB with your whole heart and being. Combined with the poor presentation of difficult material by the professor and the insane homeworks, these things took so long to do. Even A.I. couldn't help very well. The midterm was by far the easiest thing ever. It was basically a word-for-word copy of the practice midterm that the professor gave you. The average on the test was a 90%. So that leads me to the final. Ohhhhh that final still gives me nightmares. Everyone thought the final was going to be just as easy as the midterm and so most people just reviewed the practice final exam and maybe went over the homeworks and all that. There were 5 questions on that final. Tell me why I could only answer 1 out of the 5 questions fully and even that was with uncertainty. There was material on there that we had never had a chance to practice or even cover during the school year. Normally when people are taking the 3 hour final, there are the geniuses that finish an hour early, or the people that give up and want to go home an hour early. No one left their seats for 2 hours and 45 minutes. The only people that did was because they had another final in 15 minutes. I'm being so serious when I say that 95% of the students could not answer every single question. So we begged the TA for more time because at 2 hours and 50 minutes, I was still on question 4. We ended up getting 30 more minutes extra, but I don't know how much that helped. Professor comes in when the exam was supposed to end and was surprised that everyone was still taking the test. He says "Oh you're still taking the test?" We say "yes." He says "it's hard right?" We laugh and say "yes it's pretty hard." And then he says the kicker, "That's what you get for the midterm being too easy." MF YOUUUU MADE THAT TEST!! WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THE MIDTERM EXTREMELY EASY, SEE THAT THE GRADING DISTRIBUTION WAS INSANELY HIGH AND THEN TORTURE US FOR THE DECISION YOUUUUU MADEEEE???? Anyways, the reason I ended up getting an A- is because he did feel bad for making the test too hard so he offered extra credit that added 4% extra to your total grade, which is very generous. The caveat is that it was during the start of summer break, so I had to do a little more work even after finals. In conclusion, take it with Margulis the goat. If you have no other choice, just go to Haorui's office hours. Thank you coming to my TedTalk.
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Things have changed a bit since the last reviewer posted about this class. There is one HW assignment per week and a quiz every other Friday. The quizzes are pretty nice since they are each restricted to the material that was covered in the two weeks leading up to it. There is no midterm, so having the quizzes can take away from the 6th week stress that you'll be getting from your other classes. I'm not sure if he's going to keep this policy, but for our class, he promised to drop the lowest quiz score (out of 4). They grade the quizzes pretty leniently, and they are each 50 minutes long. The final was actually pretty easy, so just make sure you know your basics. The course reader SUCKS. There is no required textbook for this class, and if the reader is your only source of information, you're screwed. Don't make the same mistake I did and let someone borrow your CEE 108 textbook, because it would probably have come in very handy for this class. You do a lot of the same material but in a bit more detail and slightly more complicated (though not by much). He has decent powerpoints, but it helps a lot to go to class and watch him go through it rather than just downloading and reading them on your own later. It will just look like a lot of crap on your screen if you don't see the animations/process of getting each step. You do not need a notebook for this class. I bought one and used about 2 pages of it. Just take your course reader to class and live by the examples in it. If you need explanations, you're shit outta luck unless you go to office hours or something. Even if you feel lost though, you'll get decent scores on the things you turn in, so don't freak out too much.
Things have changed a bit since the last reviewer posted about this class. There is one HW assignment per week and a quiz every other Friday. The quizzes are pretty nice since they are each restricted to the material that was covered in the two weeks leading up to it. There is no midterm, so having the quizzes can take away from the 6th week stress that you'll be getting from your other classes. I'm not sure if he's going to keep this policy, but for our class, he promised to drop the lowest quiz score (out of 4). They grade the quizzes pretty leniently, and they are each 50 minutes long. The final was actually pretty easy, so just make sure you know your basics. The course reader SUCKS. There is no required textbook for this class, and if the reader is your only source of information, you're screwed. Don't make the same mistake I did and let someone borrow your CEE 108 textbook, because it would probably have come in very handy for this class. You do a lot of the same material but in a bit more detail and slightly more complicated (though not by much). He has decent powerpoints, but it helps a lot to go to class and watch him go through it rather than just downloading and reading them on your own later. It will just look like a lot of crap on your screen if you don't see the animations/process of getting each step. You do not need a notebook for this class. I bought one and used about 2 pages of it. Just take your course reader to class and live by the examples in it. If you need explanations, you're shit outta luck unless you go to office hours or something. Even if you feel lost though, you'll get decent scores on the things you turn in, so don't freak out too much.
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