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Koffi Enakoutsa

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3.7
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Easiness 3.9 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 3.6 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 3.4 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 3.9 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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MATH 151A
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March 27, 2021
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A

NOT recommended. The grading of the class is based on homework (from textbook), projects (coding with Matlab and report in Latex), two midterms, and a final project (code + report + slides + live presentation and Q&A with professor).

Overall: I personally learn little from this class. The professor is a nice guy but his handwriting is hard to read even in remote instruction, and I feel like he's not very good at explaining things. He really wanted interactions but sadly people don't always respond and it's kinda awkward.

Homework assignments: The homework is unbelievably long.. It's not that there are a large number of questions, it's just the calculation sucks. While I understand this is a numerical method class and some amount of calculation is necessary, this is definitely too much- I'm not a computer and it sucks to calculate a system of 20+ equations, etc. Huge amount of repeated exercises with LOTS OF calculations makes the HW's such a pain. And it sucks oven more when the last homework is released on Mon of finals week and due on Friday.. Just imagine you climb out of your sofa after finally finished all your finals to do the homework with ton of calculations.. PAIN

Projects: Honestly I'd say projects are ok mainly because they are graded kindly, despite the spec is unclear. You might get confused on what the professor really wants, but it's usually OK to just make an assumption and go on. So doable projects even with no previous experience in Matlab!

Exams: Doable. Mainly about concepts- it makes me feel better since at least the exams are not THAT calculation intensive. But something to watch out: the schedule of midterms are pretty randomly decided and you'll not get an official notification until the night before (though you might know the day of midterm via discussion forums).

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MATH 151A
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March 28, 2021
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A-

Prof. Koffi put a lot efforts in this class. Besides the technical content of the course, I learned new software such as Latex and Matlab. The project homework assignments can be tricky especially if you aren't the greatest with Matlab. However, Professor Koffi is always willing to lend you a hand when you reach out. He has been nothing short of great when it comes to email responses and answering any of my many questions. I wouldn't have wanted to take the class with anyone else.

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MATH 32B
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March 28, 2021
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A

Koffi Enakoutsa is an amazing professor. He was really engaging and held review sessions before every quiz and test. We did fall behind in pacing because he likes to do a lot of practice problems, but the practice was still helpful. My TA was also great, which definitely helped. He's very lenient and ultimately wants students to succeed. Because of this, he was willing to extend homework due dates, drop quizzes, and curve difficult questions on the exams. At first, I struggled with his cursive, but it wasn't bad. In all, Math 32B with Koffi was great.

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MATH 32B
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March 29, 2021
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A

As someone who took 32A with Prof. Spaas and felt that super easy, 32B was definitely more difficult for me and I had to put in more effort studying, especially in the second half of the quarter. The first half is pretty easy, mainly doing triple integrals, but the second half and second midterm was more confusing. Professor Enakousta is super nice and does a bunch of review sessions outside of class, but if you want to do well in the class you should go to them since some of them include material not covered in lectures. The homework is pretty heavy and time-consuming, especially towards the last 3 weeks of the quarter, but it's way harder than the actual exam content. Koffi is also (in my opinion) pretty lenient with grading as I felt like I didn't do well on midterm 2 and ended up with an 83. My only complaint is that my discussion section with the TA Patrick H. felt like a waste of time and I didn't learn much from it.

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MATH 31B
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April 3, 2021
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

Koffi is definitely the best professor I have ever met during my first quarter at ucla and also the first quarter during pandemic times.He is a kind person and is tolerant of late submission but workload is a little bit heavy because he assigns not a lot but many question which could be finished by majorities and very helpful.I also enrolled in his other classes and the workload was not as heavy as it was probably because 2020 fall quarter was the first quarter here at UCLA for him so he needed sometime to adjust so you guys can forget what I said about the workload and do not need to be worried.There will be nothing wrong for you to go with koffi.

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MATH 151A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
April 30, 2021
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A

He geniously care about his students. The homework helped me to grasp deeply the content of the coure material. I have to learn latex and Matlab for his project assignments. There were three of them and I was given the freedom to work on a topic of my choice. Pretty smart guy too!

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MATH 32A
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June 20, 2021
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A-

Amazing Professor! Koffi is incredibly intelligent so he somewhat rambles during lectures. Sometimes difficult to follow along. However, he's literally one of the most caring people I've ever met. Replies to emails at 4 am with paragraph-long answers and admits that he can't sleep because he worries if our final is fair. Quizzes and exams were very fair.

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MATH 32A
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June 23, 2021
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A-

Amazing professor! He doesn't stray from the topic and is very clear. I learned a lot from his class.

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MATH 32A
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June 23, 2021
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

Extremely helpful and the first calculus teacher I've had in college that actually knew what he was talking about. I'd recommend scheduling him if at all possible.

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MATH 33B
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Sept. 12, 2021
Quarter: Summer 2021
Grade: N/A

I was nervous for Math 33b before the course begins given the poor rate the Professor has on Bruinwalk, but Professor Koffi was such an engaging and very knowledgeable professor. He organized many extra review sessions (especially before midterm and final exams) where he went over many of the exams' study guide problems. He hosted many extra evening office hours. His homework assignment load was overwelming though, but he was very flexible with the submission deadlines which i pretty much appreaciated. I learned a lot from his course. Great professor!

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MATH 151A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 27, 2021

NOT recommended. The grading of the class is based on homework (from textbook), projects (coding with Matlab and report in Latex), two midterms, and a final project (code + report + slides + live presentation and Q&A with professor).

Overall: I personally learn little from this class. The professor is a nice guy but his handwriting is hard to read even in remote instruction, and I feel like he's not very good at explaining things. He really wanted interactions but sadly people don't always respond and it's kinda awkward.

Homework assignments: The homework is unbelievably long.. It's not that there are a large number of questions, it's just the calculation sucks. While I understand this is a numerical method class and some amount of calculation is necessary, this is definitely too much- I'm not a computer and it sucks to calculate a system of 20+ equations, etc. Huge amount of repeated exercises with LOTS OF calculations makes the HW's such a pain. And it sucks oven more when the last homework is released on Mon of finals week and due on Friday.. Just imagine you climb out of your sofa after finally finished all your finals to do the homework with ton of calculations.. PAIN

Projects: Honestly I'd say projects are ok mainly because they are graded kindly, despite the spec is unclear. You might get confused on what the professor really wants, but it's usually OK to just make an assumption and go on. So doable projects even with no previous experience in Matlab!

Exams: Doable. Mainly about concepts- it makes me feel better since at least the exams are not THAT calculation intensive. But something to watch out: the schedule of midterms are pretty randomly decided and you'll not get an official notification until the night before (though you might know the day of midterm via discussion forums).

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MATH 151A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A-
March 28, 2021

Prof. Koffi put a lot efforts in this class. Besides the technical content of the course, I learned new software such as Latex and Matlab. The project homework assignments can be tricky especially if you aren't the greatest with Matlab. However, Professor Koffi is always willing to lend you a hand when you reach out. He has been nothing short of great when it comes to email responses and answering any of my many questions. I wouldn't have wanted to take the class with anyone else.

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MATH 32B
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 28, 2021

Koffi Enakoutsa is an amazing professor. He was really engaging and held review sessions before every quiz and test. We did fall behind in pacing because he likes to do a lot of practice problems, but the practice was still helpful. My TA was also great, which definitely helped. He's very lenient and ultimately wants students to succeed. Because of this, he was willing to extend homework due dates, drop quizzes, and curve difficult questions on the exams. At first, I struggled with his cursive, but it wasn't bad. In all, Math 32B with Koffi was great.

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MATH 32B
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 29, 2021

As someone who took 32A with Prof. Spaas and felt that super easy, 32B was definitely more difficult for me and I had to put in more effort studying, especially in the second half of the quarter. The first half is pretty easy, mainly doing triple integrals, but the second half and second midterm was more confusing. Professor Enakousta is super nice and does a bunch of review sessions outside of class, but if you want to do well in the class you should go to them since some of them include material not covered in lectures. The homework is pretty heavy and time-consuming, especially towards the last 3 weeks of the quarter, but it's way harder than the actual exam content. Koffi is also (in my opinion) pretty lenient with grading as I felt like I didn't do well on midterm 2 and ended up with an 83. My only complaint is that my discussion section with the TA Patrick H. felt like a waste of time and I didn't learn much from it.

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MATH 31B
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
April 3, 2021

Koffi is definitely the best professor I have ever met during my first quarter at ucla and also the first quarter during pandemic times.He is a kind person and is tolerant of late submission but workload is a little bit heavy because he assigns not a lot but many question which could be finished by majorities and very helpful.I also enrolled in his other classes and the workload was not as heavy as it was probably because 2020 fall quarter was the first quarter here at UCLA for him so he needed sometime to adjust so you guys can forget what I said about the workload and do not need to be worried.There will be nothing wrong for you to go with koffi.

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MATH 151A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
April 30, 2021

He geniously care about his students. The homework helped me to grasp deeply the content of the coure material. I have to learn latex and Matlab for his project assignments. There were three of them and I was given the freedom to work on a topic of my choice. Pretty smart guy too!

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MATH 32A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A-
June 20, 2021

Amazing Professor! Koffi is incredibly intelligent so he somewhat rambles during lectures. Sometimes difficult to follow along. However, he's literally one of the most caring people I've ever met. Replies to emails at 4 am with paragraph-long answers and admits that he can't sleep because he worries if our final is fair. Quizzes and exams were very fair.

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MATH 32A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A-
June 23, 2021

Amazing professor! He doesn't stray from the topic and is very clear. I learned a lot from his class.

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MATH 32A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
June 23, 2021

Extremely helpful and the first calculus teacher I've had in college that actually knew what he was talking about. I'd recommend scheduling him if at all possible.

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MATH 33B
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Summer 2021
Grade: N/A
Sept. 12, 2021

I was nervous for Math 33b before the course begins given the poor rate the Professor has on Bruinwalk, but Professor Koffi was such an engaging and very knowledgeable professor. He organized many extra review sessions (especially before midterm and final exams) where he went over many of the exams' study guide problems. He hosted many extra evening office hours. His homework assignment load was overwelming though, but he was very flexible with the submission deadlines which i pretty much appreaciated. I learned a lot from his course. Great professor!

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