<p>who is this dude? I've always heard the Hotel School is easy but this guy is taking it to another level. You have UNLIMITED time to do his tests... Most of the time, tests start at 5pm and ends 4am in the morning. and the TAs are willing to cooperate with this BS??? The tests are OPEN BOOK, OPEN NOTES... and he allows you to take SNACK BREAKS in between... To make matters worse, his classes are limited to Hotelies only so enginerds and premeds cant get that easy A...</p>
<p>Alright, im done with my rant.. just finished my finals and didnt do too hot on them..</p>
<p>o no wonder, he's a law prof. i was reading your post and thought, it sounds just like a law school exam. open book, notes, everything, sometimes a 8 hr take home exam, occasionally a 2 week take home =P so sherwyn's exam format makes sense if he's teaching a law class</p>
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<li><p>His class is not limited to hotelie..I took 387 and a couple non-hotelie are in it--he'll let you in with a good reason. He also teach some labor law class cross-listed with the ILR school that's almost opened to everyone.</p></li>
<li><p>His class are open-note open-book and unlimited time because the context (law) is not the hard part. His analysis is the hard part. He looks for very specific things in the analysis, and the law is never straight forward.</p></li>
<li><p>There's no reason to rant about that because there are plenty of classes that gives take-home finals and final essay instead of final exam. You can think of Dave Sherwyn's test as a final essay. The only reason why he makes us take it in the school is so we wouldn't talk about it with other people. Everything else is up for grabs.</p></li>
<li><p>I will admit the class is not that much work---but the median grade is not an A. It's a easy work class but not an easy A class as much.</p></li>
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<p>**FINALLY, I will say one more thing. My friend works at an asset management job for a highly prestigious company--he claims the stuff he learned in law (particularly contracts) helps him out a lot. While it can't substitute important classes like acquisition (if you want to do real estate) or Charles Chang's portfolio class, it does add some interesting knowledge to your background.</p>
<p>Sherwyn is amazing. The way he teaches the material... if only every professor could do it that way. Love his lawyer stories.</p>