Terrible professor. Without a doubt the worst professor I have ever had. Now you may be looking at all the reviews and be thinking "oh, only the people who hated the class or who sucked in it write reviews so its biased". We'll that may be true but for context I had a 4.00 before this class, then I left with a B-. I wasn't even confused about the material. I actually felt like I understood it, but apparently that wasn't enough. A couple things:
- She claimed the lectures were recorded but then didn't give the password to the recordings until like week 8 which made the recordings completely pointless.
- She doesn't curve
- She is VERY nit-picky about the grading and even if you make a small mistake she'll deduct 1 point out of the total of 25 for each midterm. I know someone who got deducted a point because they used the word 'theorem' instead of 'definition'
- Very disorganized. She would often assign homework that we hadn't covered the material for
- She did post slides but lots of the slides were incomplete.
- She blames everything on the math department, which I'm not saying that they're the best department ever but also some of the stuff you can clearly tell is not something the math department said. like we have taken more math classes than she has taught at ucla (fall quarter was her first).
- Homework is worth a very small percentage of your grade and took ages to be graded.
- She often says one thing and then immediately contradicts herself. At one point, she told a student that the solutions were enough to base our answers on and then a few sentences later said that they should be used merely as a guide.

Honestly I hated this professor and I could go on and on about it but you get the gist of it. One pro is that she gives you a cheat sheet, but I assume thats the case with every professor for math 61. If you can get Olha as your TA definitely do it! She sympathizes with the class and really tries to help. Kong, on the other hand, speaks at 2 times speed and leaves you more confused than when you walked in. I was originally in Kong's discussion section but quickly switched into Olha's and it was no problem.

COMPLETE LUCK-BASED CLASS. professor doesn't even know how to spell "pigeon" and spells "3rd" as "3th", so don't expect her teaching to be comprehensible either. on top of that she emphasizes that she cares about your logic rather than the format of the proofs which is completely a lie because your HW and exams are graded more on the format rather than the correct answer...

overall inconsistent teacher, absolute headache of a class, and managed to make what should've been interesting content miserable to learn and study.

if youre stupid enough after reading all these reviews to take the class with this professor the strat is to just literally copy paste the exact answers from every homework problem onto your cheat sheets. dont take any risk deviating even a single punctuation mark from her answers key answers...

legit one of the worst teachers I have ever met... her lectures are painfully slow and uninteresting and worst of all she takes every question as a confrontation and it is clear she views herself as being "above" her students-- also our hw wasn't graded for 7+ weeks so in summary if you can avoid her. NGL I'm Hella surprised she got hired lol

legit one of the worst teachers I have ever met... her lectures are painfully slow and uninteresting and worst of all she takes every question as a confrontation and it is clear she views herself as being "above" her students-- also our hw wasn't graded for 7+ weeks so in summary if you can avoid her. NGL Im hella surprised she got hired lol

61 with Prof. Vicaria was enjoyable. Sometimes her lectures are a bit slow, but she is very helpful during office hours. The homework problems are very helpful for exams. The exams were easy but fall was her first quarter teaching here so it’s probably gotten harder since then. Overall, an enjoyable experience.