<p>It seems that this year non of the professors are spectacular, but nevertheless
I don't like Professor Bianca Santoro and want to switch into another section.</p>
<p>Is McKinley,Scott good (that one fits my schedule best)</p>
<p>How about Hain and Charbonneau,Benoit (I think he's new)</p>
<p>Anyway, please help, drop and add ends tomorrow</p>
<p>I liked McKinley, but I had him for 107.</p>
<p>Was Mckinley a fair teacher who gave you the grade you deserved?</p>
<p>I just don't want to get an absurd professor, who, even if you work
hard and study for the tests, makes midterms different from and way more difficult than what he has taught or given as homework, so that unless you are really bright, you get a bad grade.</p>
<p>I thought he was fair. Questions on the tests were like homework problems, but that has been the case for almost all my math classes.</p>
<p>I am somewhat of a perfectionist so i will work on a problem until i figure it out. This is great for a subject like math, because most of my learning is done outside of class. (i actually only went to 50% of lectures for 107)</p>
<p>Overall, i felt McKinley was fair and decent.</p>
<p>I really wouldn't be to worried about that for Math at Duke by the way. In fact I would prefer to have the teacher with the insane midterms if I were you because if you have fair midterms it won't prepare you for the crazyness that is Math finals. Out of 103, 107 and 108 I had two different experiences. One was my 103 class that had a teacher that was teaching off of the blocked exam and so his own final. (a rare thing, unfortunately) His tests were challenging but they were consistent and I actually felt the final tested what I knew of the class. For 107 and 108 I had teachers who were on the blocked final. These teachers gave rather straightforward midterms both and actually weren't that bad at teaching but they held little to no sway on the final exam. Needless to say, I went into both finals expecting an A and came out with something decidedly less. I had done well throughout the year but when I got to the final the way the questions were phrased of all things screwed me up. (on the 107 final, the 108 final was just freak'n hard and I am just not that smart)</p>
<p>So while in a perfect world you want the teacher that gives the fair finals, you really may not want that guy. (I'd try to figure out who will be writing most of the final/heading up writing the final because then you will go into the final and it will seem at least mostly familiar)</p>
<p>(oh and that "harder on the test than anything you've seen before" thing really bugs me too, if you are an engineer watch out for that because it happens a lot at least in BME)</p>