Professor
Thomas Plate
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Plate is an extremely nice professor, and I really liked his class. But it's not that easy to get an A at all, and the class is not curved. THe main problem is with his TA Diana Lee. Before I took this class a Comm Std senior told me that Diana was mean and becoz she didn't do well academically herself, she wanted to make everything as hard as possible and hated her students to score high. I didn't really believe that before I took this course. Now I really experienced it. SHE IS MEAN, and I think it's Prof Plate's biggest mistake in letting her be his TA
Plate is an extremely nice professor, and I really liked his class. But it's not that easy to get an A at all, and the class is not curved. THe main problem is with his TA Diana Lee. Before I took this class a Comm Std senior told me that Diana was mean and becoz she didn't do well academically herself, she wanted to make everything as hard as possible and hated her students to score high. I didn't really believe that before I took this course. Now I really experienced it. SHE IS MEAN, and I think it's Prof Plate's biggest mistake in letting her be his TA
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The readings were interesting, lectures always kept my attention, the term project was FUN, and the guest lecturer (Robert Shapiro) was swift but sweet. But the tests were REDICULOUS!!! They didn't test anything valuable or worth retaining!! It was like he'd pick any random sentence in the readings and test us on it. And he didn't mind pointing out his favorites in the class. He gave the impression that he was deeply concerned with our learning the material but he insisted on testing us on worthless stuff. If grades didn't count, this class might be cool...
The readings were interesting, lectures always kept my attention, the term project was FUN, and the guest lecturer (Robert Shapiro) was swift but sweet. But the tests were REDICULOUS!!! They didn't test anything valuable or worth retaining!! It was like he'd pick any random sentence in the readings and test us on it. And he didn't mind pointing out his favorites in the class. He gave the impression that he was deeply concerned with our learning the material but he insisted on testing us on worthless stuff. If grades didn't count, this class might be cool...
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