I loved this class so much! I highly recommend Professor Varvarezos because he is such an engaging lecturer. He always pauses to ask if anyone has questions and answers them to the best of his ability. He draws very informative figures that help students visualize new topics well. I've attended a couple of his office hours and I would definitely say that it was worth my time! Overall, Professor Varvarezos is super approachable and very understanding. 10/10 experience.

I didn't go to lecture because all lectures are Bruincasted. He lectures very timidly, but he gives a lot of examples and answers questions well. I didn't find the content of this class all that hard, and it was pretty easy for math 32b I think. Homework is 15% of your grade and he drops your lowest grade (you can definitely get 100% on this section). Reading the textbook is good for homework. Discussion is 5% of your grade which is annoying for a math class but if you do 8/10 worksheets you get full credit, plus some bonus if you do some surveys. Midterm weight depends on if you drop one, but the two midterms were ridiculously mind numbingly easy. Aced both. 4 simple questions that most of the class finished in 20 minutes and we were given two hours. Average on first midterm for my lecture is 97%. So I think he's going to try to amp up the difficulty lol. Which is probably appropriate. Basically, don't study for midterms. The final was harder, but omg our piazza was flipping their shit after it because it was significantly harder than the midterms. This was true, but we still had 2 hours for 4 problems and most people left early. I know this sound very teacher's pet - y, but the final definitely should have been harder because the average on a midterm for a multi class should not be 97%. But literally people were begging this man for a curve, spamming him, while they were walking out the door of the final, like BEGGING. and the average turns out to be a 87.5. SO STUPID. Anyone here who whines about the final at least for this quarter needs to like actually chill. The annoyingish thing about this class is no matter what you have to slay the final. There are two grading schemes and one of them is 45% final and the other is 40% final. Kinda yuck. But anyway, this class is cake, take him.

Konstantinos is a very special man. This was his first quarter teaching out of his PhD program, and he did such a great job. He explains the concepts quite clearly, and is very helpful during office hours. He just seems like a really kind and bright person in general, and he has a sweet demeanor. His midterms were really easy, and if you understood the concepts on a surface level then you would do well. The final was definitely harder, but it was a pretty fair test. There were 4 questions with about 3 parts each, and you had 3 hours in total. He also has a really great sense of humor and being in his lecture always brightens my day. Overall, having Konstantinos has made my quarter and education so much better. If you have the opportunity to take this professor, please do!

Konstantinos is by far one of the best math professor I've had. He is so sweet, articulate and extremely helpful with explanations. The exams are very fair and the homework is designed to help you understand the material the best you can. After our first midterm, we all applauded him when he walked into class. He records lectures, and office hours are very helpful. We also get credit for worksheets that solely help with understanding and do not negatively affect your grade. 10/10 recommend this professor!!

Okay the reviews here for my quarter are terrible but I actually liked Prof Varvarezos! His lectures were really well-organized and easy to understand, but there was only audio recording (no video or lecture notes). Whenever I missed a class I would just get notes from a friend and listen to the audio at the same time so it was basically like being in class lol.

I thought the midterms were both reasonable, not at all more difficult than the examples he did in class. But the final was genuinely really really bad. I'm lucky I did pretty good but it was definitely far more difficult than anything he had covered in class before. His homework is also really hard—he picks all the hardest questions out of the textbook (even problems) to actually grade on correctness—so I think the final was about the same difficulty as a lot of the homework problems (probably it was easier tbh, HW was hard).

Something I liked about Varvarezos was his office hours. I only went a few times, but every time I asked questions, he was super helpful and understanding, and took the time to fully answer the question. This is mainly how I was able to answer a lot of the homework questions, because he would be fully willing to explain the solutions for them. He also answered a lot of questions from the class during lecture. Lowkey sometimes he spent too long answering questions I got pissed off lol. But it's clear he is really knowledgeable about the material and is generally good at teaching.

IMO if you take the time to fully understand the material conceptually (his tests have true/false) and go to office hours for your questions, his class is actually not that bad. Outside of class time or time spent doing homework, I think I probably spent 1-2 hours/week on average studying? Obviously more around the time of the exams. He's a pretty considerate + competent guy and idk wtf happened when he was writing the final but I would honestly consider him the best math prof I've had so far.

I feel like this prof is not as bad as the reviews from my quarter make it seem! I didn’t have any experience with the content beforehand but got 98, 99, 97.5 on the midterms and final (which was definitely harder). The other reviews are right in that his lecture examples are way easier than the homework and exams, but the homework questions and the practice exams are about the same level of difficulty as the actual exams for the midterms. If you paid attention in class, really understood the homework, textbook questions, practice tests without taking shortcuts, and thought carefully about the true/false questions, the tests were really very straightforward. For the true/false, even if I didn’t know the answer, I could still come up with examples to test to make a good guess. His grading scheme is 45% final at the minimum which kind of sucked but that’s kind of how the math dept is. The only weird thing was recording lectures. He said he couldn’t get the video to work so there was only audio, but I took a class in the same room in the winter and there was no issue. Hopefully that gets fixed next time. I found 32B pretty interesting, but the content itself is not easy and there’s nothing he can do to change that. Overall, he explains the concepts simply but tests with harder examples similar to practice tests. I would definitely take him again, especially compared to things I’ve heard about the other 32B profs!

Honestly... if you are going to teach a class, at least put some effort into it. If the students are bombing the midterms and final on a lower div class, then it is really the teacher's problem, rather than the material being too hard or the students being too dumb. If you only teach the most basic examples and expect us to build a rocket to Mars from that, then you must be chronically insane. Midterm averages to 60s and he "curves" it to 80, final averages around 70. NGL, this is atrocious for a lower div class and if you expect a bunch of college students who just want to pass the class to put some effort into it, at least make it honors so I can avoid you.

It is definitely possible to get a good grade in this class but it's absolutely not easy. The old reviews from 2023 aren't accurate anymore; Professor Varvarezos no longer records or has easy exams. Expect to spend some time outside of lecture going over content because the homework is harder than the examples he goes over in class. There were 4 CONCEPTUAL T/F questions on each midterm, and each T/F was worth 5% of the midterm total which is... bruh idek what to say. So try to get an understanding instead of memorizing the formulas. Also the final was lowkey atrocious and there is NO EXTRA CREDIT!!! T_T

It wasn't all bad though. Overall the content was really interesting! As a life science major, this class is making me consider a math minor. The midterms were fair and matched the difficulty level of the practice exams he provided. He lets you drop a midterm score and allows cheat sheets on exams. He was also very helpful when I asked him questions after class or during office hours, so make sure you take advantage of that!

Professor Varvarizos is a nice guy who knows what he’s talking about but doesn’t know how to balance the class at all. The material is difficult, and the concepts are covered in a timely manner, but they’re always to such a degree such that you have to go online or read the textbook in order to put together how to do the homework. The most annoying part was that there weren’t any notes posted, so if you miss something there’s little way to recover it.

The tests were generally fair but difficult. He allows a 3x5 note card for the midterms, and a fully 8.5x11 paper for the final. While this may seem helpful at first, a big portion of each of these tests was true false, which were around 20% of the grade. The true false essentially came down to whether you remembered to write down the correct thing on your cheat sheet, or remembered to study one specific topic that was covered.

Overall, the class was manageable until the final, which was ludicrously difficult. While I am not the best at multivariable calculus, even my peers who were more math savvy found it unreasonably difficult, and I’m sure the ta’s would as well, as they mentioned topics they wouldn’t believe would be covered, but just so happened to be on the final exam.

Overall I feel as though professor Varvarizos kept his notes the same but tuned up the difficulty of the exams. This made the class relatively miserable for an already known difficult class. I wouldn’t recommend this class personally as the balance is all over the place.

Genuinely one of the worst professors I've taken at this school. He's completely 180d from the old reviews from when he first taught the class. Lectures were never recorded, lecture notes were never posted online, and he refused to give anyone his hand notes and said, "just get it from a classmate".

He's a nice guy, but that's pretty much all he has going for him. His examples in lecture were unbelievably easy which made the homework next to impossible as you had to teach yourself everything. The exams were NOTHING like his lecture notes, and we had multiple types of questions on the final that we flat out never covered. Like the topics were the same but we were never taught any of the applications of those topics that appeared on the final.

Genuinely terrible experience, would not recommend to anyone.