Do You Guys End Up Teaching Yourself Everything?

Senior0991
Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:05:09 +0000

Assuming one goes to lectures and pays attention, there is a strong chance that they will not have to teach themselves much. For my 3 classes this quarter I really had to just solidify some things that I missed/forgot from lecture on my own. TAs will solidify things too, but the textbooks I had were good. Physics 45 last year I had to teach myself a lot. Lecture and section was horrible, but at least the lecture notes were good. My intro math classes last year I really didn’t have to teach myself at all. My polisci classes were mixed. One I had Rob Reich, whose a teaching god. The others the teachers were good, but they mainly just went over the readings, which helped the many people who didn’t do the readings (not me though).

Physics 20/40 series and Math 50 series are known for poor teaching quality. IHUM is pretty hit or miss, although it’s not like you need to go to IHUM lecture haha. Math 50 series I think there’s generally at least one good professor whose lecture you can attend.