Although the lectures were extremely similar to the textbook and weren't super clear, his office hours and the overall structure of the class was nice. The quizzes and both midterms felt fair and were exactly what you would expect. If you did the homework, you should be able to ace them since he wouldn't put any material you didn't learn on them and the depth of the questions were similar. One exception to that would be the final. I redid a lot of the homework questions and studied days in advance but that final had almost the entire class in there at the end of the three hours because of how difficult it was. I think a lot of the questions could've been reasoned through with the concepts we learned in class, but many were more in depth than we've seen on the midterms and quizzes which was why the final was so difficult. Fortunately, he did curve the final as a result of this even though a C average in a final is standard. Also, as someone who didn't take Calculus BC, it was hard to understand the concepts being taught but going to office hours (TA and prof's) and watching videos online helped a lot.

overall feedback:

- prof is super nice and often funny and a very understanding guy
- flynn not the best lecturer, lecture is super heavy on theorems, definitions and formulas without much application
- professor leonard on yt supplemented any confusion from the lecture and did ample practice so highly recommend
- weekly quizzes with problems pulled directly from the homework with constants changed
- homework is not due but heavily encouraged due to the quizzes
- midterms were both fair with problems very similar to the homework
- the final was insanely difficult but patrick was very nice and curved it by 20 points
- if its an option, take the later discussion day since that's when the quiz will be and you'll get more study time
- you can succeed in this class by just doing the homework over and over again until you memorize all of the steps on how to do all of the problems
- for our final he allowed 8.5*11 cheat sheet front and back

overall patrick was super nice and funny and wanted all of us to succeed. although he was not the best lecturer, i would take the class again because there was no due homework, the tests were easy, and i was entertained by him during lecture.

Math 31B is a pretty standard calculus class, so if you've taken AP Calc BC in high school, you should be completely fine. The midterms and quizzes were representative of the material and were fairly easy. The final, however, was pretty challenging, and many people did not do well. However, Professor Flynn ended up curving the finals by 20 points so everyone would receive a passing grade. The professor is very approachable and understanding, even though he's not great at lecturing. He mostly just reads off the textbooks and does not dedicate enough time to practice problems. Overall, Flynn was pretty easy (at least compared to other 31B professors), and you can definitely earn an A in his class if you put in a decent effort.