Professor Suzuki was very caring and one of the few professors who has ever taken mid-quarter feedback into consideration. He added CampusWire halfway through the quarter after people said they wanted something like that, which shows that he's a really helpful and caring professor. That being said, I did not like this class in the slightest. Professor Suzuki was a mediocre lecturer at best. He would rarely ever tie together concepts from different lectures together into one story, which is something I think is crucial for lectures. Instead, it felt like every lecture was disjointed and disorganized. There was a lot of reliance on the textbook to figure out all the content, even though the textbook for the class itself is kind of mediocre too.

Workload is pretty light though, and exams weren't too difficult. I almost wished that we had more homework problems (and Professor Suzuki accommodated by giving more practice problems along with the assigned homework problems). Exams were easy but mostly because of the 24 hour exam rule during remote learning, there is a lot of computation to do on them. Quizzes were not that easy and are worth a significant portion of the grade, but I honestly found the stuff on the quiz to be pretty important, even though so many of the conceptual questions on the quizzes we never learned.

Professor Suzuki was very nice and caring for his students. His notes were very clear and exams were quite manageable. I would definitely take his class again!

I definitely have mixed feelings about Professor Suzuki. He was overall a very nice and chill professor and I never really felt pressured in terms of workload, but his lectures and notes were a bit messy and unclear at times, which ends up being a huge downside in a conceptual class such as 33A.

His homework wasn't that difficult with a good mix of conceptual and computational questions.
His quizzes were a bit more difficult with both conceptual and computational questions with the conceptual questions feeling a bit unfair because most of them were not taught in class.

He has a VERY generous grading policy though, where he drops the lowest 2 homeworks and quizzes, and considering the fact there are only 7 homeworks and quizzes, you really only need to do well on 5 of them.

His tests are where the class gets notably difficult. He grades the tests out of 20 points, so even one mistake can destroy your grade on them. The first two midterms both had a fairly difficult conceptual question on them, and considering that the test was only out of 20 points, it felt a bit unfair if you couldn't answer the conceptual question, as it would gut your grade.

He responded well to the feedback on the exams, and the final ended up being pretty much purely computational.

Overall, I didn't personally like Professor Suzuki, but I think he responded very well to feedback, and I believe it was his first quarter teaching. He definitely has great potential as a lecturer, so it's entirely possible that when you choose to take this class or any class with Suzuki, he will have found his stride in teaching.

He is a really nice professor. He listens to what his students want and is accommodating. He did his best with explaining and linking topics together. Usually, if there’s something confusing, it’s probably because you weren’t paying attention and following his notes with your own. However, he is nice enough to explain anything to the students, even if it is the same exact thing that was just reviewed.

I love Prof Suzuki, thought the class was kinda hard though. The only thing is: if you want to just do well and leave it's probably easy but if you have tendencies to try to understand everything, you might get super confused. There's a lot of stuff you have to conceptually understand or just accept and a lot of proofs. Went to office hours a lot which were pretty helpful when I wanted to understand a proof.

I couldn't really understand Prof Suzuki's notes very well since they were handwritten. This class uses a lot of lowercase "n" and "m" and other letters that look similar with small handwriting so I ended up just reading the textbook. He pretty much follows the textbook so if you have the same issues as me definitely go with the textbook and math videos on youtube. The only thing was each assignment was worth a large portion of your final grade so if you missed one point on a midterm, it would directly impact the final grade. Each exam didn't have a lot of questions so you do feel more pressure to get things right. He drops the lowest 2 homeworks and the lowest 2 quizzes so those help a lot.

I have mixed feelings about this class. Although I'm confused most of the time in lectures, Prof. Suzuki is just so darn sweet. It's his first time teaching, and I feel like the way he explains things is not that clear. That being said, he genuinely cares about the students and tries to do anything to improve his class. He is so patient and helpful and answers every question. For such a fast-paced class, the workload is light and the quizzes and final are reasonable.

This class was a very good introductory linear algebra course. The pace of the workload is brisk but manageable, as the class consists of 7 homework problems per week, and a quiz every week (except midterm weeks). Professor Suzuki goes by the book, so any misunderstandings in class can be cleared up by the textbook. Also, the professor always answers every question in class which is a huge help. The quizzes are kind of tricky, but the midterms and final are very doable with the 24 hour format (they take longer than the time he recommends you spend on them). The grading scheme is a bit annoying, since the midterms are worth 20 points each, and the final is 30 points, so any mistake could hurt you. That being said, your two lowest homework and quiz scores are dropped. Overall, I enjoyed learning linear algebra with Professor Suzuki and would definitely recommend.

professor suzuki has a heart of gold. This class was not very stressful and I feel like I learned a good amount of linear algebra . My suggestion for this class (or any other 33A class) is to just make sure you really understand the first 3/4 weeks of material because that stuff accumulates. Lectures were pretty helpful, definitely ask questions if you need help because he is good at explaining. It was structured like most other math classes at UCLA (weekly quizzes, 24 hr exams, etc)

Professor Suzuki was really good, he followed the textbook faithfully in every lecture which made it easy to review whatever was taught. He always made sure to check the chat to answer questions which I found very helpful in clarifying doubts. He was friendly and willing to help all the time.

The textbook was linear algebra by otto bretscher and it was easily available on libgen.

Exams were easy and straightforward, there was one proof-based question on a midterm which a lot of people had issues with so Professor Suzuki adjusted the next exam accordingly. Other than exams we had weekly homeworks and quizzes (24 hrs) to do. The homeworks were good for studying and Professor Suzuki posted practice problems to do which were good.

Overall this was a good class to take, not much pressure but I felt that I learned a good amount afterwards. Would recommend 5/5