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Matthew Malkan
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Astronomy 3 evaluation I don't know where these positive evaluations are coming from but this guy is a crackhead. He gets very red while lecturing, he's very twitchy, he always seems to be out of breath, and he scratches himself vigorously during lecture...I only made up two of those things. Anyways, I think he made this class way more difficult than it should be as his tests were a lot harder than those of other professors. Not a difficult course but a weird guy and I would advise you to take this class with a different professor.
Astronomy 3 evaluation I don't know where these positive evaluations are coming from but this guy is a crackhead. He gets very red while lecturing, he's very twitchy, he always seems to be out of breath, and he scratches himself vigorously during lecture...I only made up two of those things. Anyways, I think he made this class way more difficult than it should be as his tests were a lot harder than those of other professors. Not a difficult course but a weird guy and I would advise you to take this class with a different professor.
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I took ASTRONOMY 3. I'm a freshman, and I just took this class for fall quarter. As for the professor himself, he's pretty funny, but as a previous poster said, he seems like he's on crack during lectures. His lectures tend to stray off from the textbook and what's on the midterms and finals so I ended up not going to a lot of them (his pace is a little slow in lectures as well). The book/information though was solid. I'm not a big science person, but I do have an interest in astronomy and the textbook teaches you SO MUCH about the world. I didn't ever think of reading the textbook as homework because it was THAT interesting. There's not too much reading, a medium amount, but it's so absorbing that it goes by pretty fast anyways. The midterms were easy - DO MASTERING ASTRONOMY. He pulls a bunch of his questions from there. Also, I learned this rather late, but apparently past midterms are good for the midterms as well. As for the finals, I didn't do quite well on that. I can't pinpoint how, but it seemed to be a bit different from what I expected based off on the midterms. I got an A- overall for the course. I did expect an A, but I definitely would blame myself for not doing enough work for the final instead of the class not being good. Definitely recommended to anyone thinking of taking this course.
I took ASTRONOMY 3. I'm a freshman, and I just took this class for fall quarter. As for the professor himself, he's pretty funny, but as a previous poster said, he seems like he's on crack during lectures. His lectures tend to stray off from the textbook and what's on the midterms and finals so I ended up not going to a lot of them (his pace is a little slow in lectures as well). The book/information though was solid. I'm not a big science person, but I do have an interest in astronomy and the textbook teaches you SO MUCH about the world. I didn't ever think of reading the textbook as homework because it was THAT interesting. There's not too much reading, a medium amount, but it's so absorbing that it goes by pretty fast anyways. The midterms were easy - DO MASTERING ASTRONOMY. He pulls a bunch of his questions from there. Also, I learned this rather late, but apparently past midterms are good for the midterms as well. As for the finals, I didn't do quite well on that. I can't pinpoint how, but it seemed to be a bit different from what I expected based off on the midterms. I got an A- overall for the course. I did expect an A, but I definitely would blame myself for not doing enough work for the final instead of the class not being good. Definitely recommended to anyone thinking of taking this course.
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