<p>Basics of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Speaker series. They both looked cool, but P. Perez has pretty negative ratings on RatemyProfessors...</p>
<p>I'm at 18 credit hours with these two, should I drop one, or both? The next class I would be willing to drop is Intermediate Micro, but I don't think it's a good idea to delay that since I plan on being an Econ major.</p>
<p>AEM 1210 is a very easy class, graded largely on attendance. Most people get A’s in the class at the end.</p>
<p>I took another class with him. The class itself wasn’t bad, but he was pretty annoying. He treats students like middle schoolers. For example, on exam days he use to say something like “if I see one person standing, I will tell my TAs to stop giving out exams.”</p>
<p>^^
Really? I heard that the exams aren’t based on the textbook, etc.</p>
<p>Did you learn anything useful, and how much studying outside of class did it require?</p>
<p>Last, should I take them now, or wait until next year?</p>
<p>I took AEM 1200 with him. I am an AEM major so I had to take it. I didn’t learn too much from that class, but I learned a lot from doing the final project. His exams were okay. He gave a practice exam with a lot of questions and he picked some of those for the real exam. He changed the questions a bit on the real exam though. However, he DID not give answers for practice exams. Many of the questions easily could have had more than one answer using common sense, but you had to pick what he chose as the right answer. His TAs were not allowed to give answers, but towards the end of the course, I discovered that some TAs did not “give” answers, but told you whether you were right or wrong…many people used that to figure out all the correct answers for practice exams.
Honestly, I did not study much for this class. I usually just studied a couple of days before an exam by doing the practice questions. I had much harder classes like organic chemistry to worry about lol</p>
<p>Also, we had the option to take the final exam or do a final project. I had heard that his final exam was hard and he did not curve the class, so I chose the project. The group project took me about 80 hours, but it was well worth it because I got a 97 on it! </p>
<p>You are taking his 1 credit class, correct? You should be fine.</p>
<p>What other classes are you taking in your 18 credits?</p>
<p>I’m signed up for both AEM 1210 and the Speaker series which he also teaches, AEM 1230.</p>
<p>The first is two credits, and the latter is 1 credit.</p>
<p>Besides those:</p>
<p>Intermediate MicroEconomic Theory
Intro to International Relations
FWS: Power and Politics-- Social and Political Inequality
American Political Campaigns</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>Perez is a ridiculously wacky teacher sometimes, and as some people here have already said, his exams can be occasionally tricky/ambiguous. 1230 and 1210 are not nearly as bad as 2200/1200 though.</p>
<p>RateMyProfessor is hugely inaccurate in general. I don’t know about those specific professors, but unless they have like 3-4 pages of reviews, there is little to be learned except specifics about what to expect in the course if people took the time to write a thoughtful review.</p>
<p>You don’t need Econ 313 your first semester. I didn’t.</p>
<p>I was in his AEM 1200 class too, but the one for non-AEM students.
The guy ****ed me off, so much that i stopped going. Fortunately, the class was easy enough to do well on the exams without going to class. But…I took the final exam instead of the project. Big mistake. It brought my grade down from an A+ to a B.</p>
<p>He also yelled at people for showing up late…like FREAKED out. Like he stopped his 400 person lecture to point out that the person had disturbed his class by quietly walking in a few minutes late. I know, it doesn’t make sense. Welcome to Pedro Perez. </p>
<p>He’s also obsessed about Wegman’s, Apple, and Goya products. Haha. </p>
<p>If your in the speaker series, you should be fine. I heard you just listen to guest speakers and then write little responses in class. Most people get an A.</p>
<p>But don’t take intro to Entrepreneurship with him? And do you think the Guest Speaker series is worth it for a one-credit A+?</p>
<p>Take the class. Don’t worry about it. Trust me, it will be one of the easiest classes you take while at Cornell. Most AEM majors take the class regardless. Don’t even worry about Perez.</p>
<p>But I’m already at 15 credit hours without the AEM classes. I’d be at 18 with them. If there’s not really much to learn, then I shouldn’t take it.</p>
<p>I’m far more interested in Financial Accounting… But that’s for sophomores and above only.</p>
<p>You probably won’t learn too much, but I would still recommend keeping those classes. You can always drop them later. Also, it’s always nice to have one “easy” class in your schedule to help your gpa…in case you mess up in a “hard” class. Just my two cents!</p>