[291-302] I think that he does care. I do personally think that I like the way that he teaches. Because, I think that, basically he just throws an example. So, he’ll go in-depth explaining a little bit why do think that it’s needed? He uses examples that I think are applicable. For instance, for probability example, he uses Sixers players, 76ers players, which, I personally found interesting. I don’t know about everyone else in the class. And then he also specifically tries to, for most of the problems, because that Sixers don’t, he’ll mostly find a random one. For most part, he does it, like involving biomedical stuff. So, I don’t know. Whether it’d be, devices, probably it’d be getting cancer, any little thing that involves it, he does try to throw it in there, which I also think is good. Because obviously that’s why it’s called biomedical statistics or whatever. But I think because, especially with statistics class, because there’s nothing super specific for biomedical.
[306-358] So, the biomedical devices and systems class is a mess. It’s his first […] So, the guy that’s teaching it, from what I’ve heard, he basically runs the ECE department, which is electrical engineering at my institution. And the ECE department is run really well. They have a hundred percent placement rating after graduating. Ridiculous. And he supposedly runs it. But now, he’s teaching this class for the first time, and I don’t know if he’s ever taught a class ever. And it just a whole ass mess because, for one, his homework policy is that, the homework’s not due until […] Well, he has a due date that, when you’re tentatively supposed to hand in, so you hand it in. So, it’s not due until he hands back people’s grades. He hasn’t handed back any homework the entire semester. I’ve only done the first two homework assignments. I think there’s been four or five because he hasn’t graded any of them yet. And I also heard that apparently one year, he literally just didn’t grade any whatsoever. Like at all. It was for a different class but […] And then, we tried to do a lab because we’re in an ECE lab setting where it has a bunch of, I don’t even know what the devices are called to be honest, but a bunch of, basically devices where … I know the one thing that we did was a wave simulator. So, we did Stein leaves and stuff. And, he basically tried to have this lab on one […] It was supposed to be a lab for one day, he just had to use it and then do this lab and his instructions were so bad. A lot of the devices were different, which he didn’t account for. He didn’t do a good job explaining the paper itself, the hand-out that he gave us wasn’t very clear. The only way that we were somehow able to get through it is because there were seniors in that class that were already ECEs. So, everything that we’re doing in the class was still pretty easy for them because they already had gone through it. Whereas also us as BMEs, we’re looking at this and like, “I really don’t know 100% what he’s talking about sometimes.” But, basically, they went around helping us with the lab. We still never even got real data from the lab. He mentioned I think once or twice about writing our lab report, there’s literally one line at the end of the document that said to write a lab report for it. Without that, no one has any data. Let’s see. He had an exam […] Oh, I forgot to include that exam because it was literally such a joke because it was a take home exam. And literally, everyone worked together on it basically. And it was a joke and also some even got a grade back on that. So, I was completely fried about that. That’s how much of a joke his class had been. Also, the school issued a mandated thing that, we’re supposed to hear from all our teachers by Wednesday, which was yesterday. Well, in terms of what they’re going to do for our class and stuff considering we are transitioning online. And I’ve also gotten emails from, I think all my other professors, besides him. Even before this, just at least saying something, he hasn’t emailed anything at all. So, I have no clue what this class is going to do. I have no clue what we’re doing now that this happened. And, this class, I really […] Yeah, I don’t know. I can’t really describe it much better than it’s an entire mess. And I think the whole idea like he tries to teach us during class. He’ll basically just go on rants about I think stuff that he finds interesting that is also probably semi relative to the curriculum. However, I still don’t even really know what the curriculum is supposed to be specifically for this. Because, he will go talk about, some systems and devices and he’ll also hand us out diagrams of complex ass circuitry stuff. And we’re like, “Yeah, well, we don’t know what the hell this is.” And he’s taught us some stuff, I know he’s talked about capacitors and types of filters and stuff along those lines, but for a majority of it, a lot of it goes over our head. And we try and ask them questions, but also, to be honest, I’m not even going to lie, the feeling that I get as a class is people are starting to give up on him, which obviously, it’s bad. And he’s also doesn’t seem like he’s putting that much effort in either. So, if no one is putting in effort and then nothing’s going to get done. And, in my opinion, that’s what I’ve seen happening. It’s pretty sad. I’m just being completely honest.
