<p>the professor used to be Peter Storm, not its Tong Zhu...</p>
<p>*** I second the complaint. What is going on?!</p>
<p>stuff happens. According to the math department website, Storm is on leave for the fall. Unless you’re happy sending him a personal email as to why he’s taking off this semester, I wouldn’t think about it. If this changes who you want for a Math 114 professor, try to get into that other class or taking something else this semester and take 114 in the spring.</p>
<p>anyone know anything about zhu?</p>
<p>I noticed this the other day. I was considering taking that course but only if I got Storm. I’m glad I didn’t even bother!</p>
<p>yes i noticed that too. that’s why i dropped that class and now am enrolled, at least for the time being, in math 116 because i heard harbater is an awesome teacher (even though the class is more difficult)</p>
<p>venkat, is this a good move? or should i just choose a random math 114 course, deal with the quality of the professors but enjoy the less difficult of a class. i like math, but i dont know if im “that” good to be taking a multivariable honors course. i don’t plan on taking anymore math after that, just more stat courses (i’m in wharton). how much harder is math 116 anyways?</p>
<p>azn4eyes00: yea so i’m signed up for 114-004 as well. i just look up Prof Zhu on Penn Course Review, and he seems to have pretty good rating for the one class he taught that is up on this website (math 104). His instructor rating is around 3.3, whereas Storm’s average was around 3.65. But it could be much worse. I’m sure Zhu is a good teacher</p>
<p>yea I’m thinking I’m just going to stick with Zhu because even though he only has one rating, it was high AND it was a high rating for an intro math course (Math 104), which none of the other professors had (besides storm)</p>
<p>yea there isn’t any room in my schedule to move things around anyways… but even if there was, i wouldn’t go to the trouble</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m sticking with him because his course review score is actually pretty good. It could be a lot worse, check out Pantev’s ratings haha</p>
<p>haha you think that’s bad? look at Powers</p>
<p>i had tong zhu (assuming it’s the same one…) as my math 240 TA first semester last yr. she was pretty good, though her english wasn’t always that great.</p>
<p>the difficulty is high and the recommendation for non-majors is low. I’m scared. I actually hate math and only doing this for stat 430 for JWS. Recommendations for my situation?</p>
<p>(btw I had a language barrier BC teacher last year and it was killing me. Don’t want to do that again)</p>
<p>“the difficulty is high and the recommendation for non-majors is low”</p>
<p>which rating are u getting this from?</p>
<p>You guys serious? Who cares what the professor’s ratings are…it’s math, you learn everything from the book anyways</p>
<p>well, the only rating on the penn course review is summer 2005’s math 104-910. And it is scary. Key items:</p>
<p>Would you recommend this course to a non-major? (0=no to 4=strongly) 1.44
Please rate the difficulty of the course. (0=easy to 4=difficult) 3.24
Instructor’s ability to communicate the subject matter. 2.82</p>
<p>/head<em>desk
/face</em>palm</p>
<p>ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh just when i thought i could sit back and relax until sept 3 :((( Wait, so what is everyone doing?? Is moving to math 116 a good idea?Would it be smart to start in 116 and if you cant handle it move to 114 since it would be to hard to do the opposite?</p>
<p>I’m either staying with this guy (the other professors are god-awful) or I might switch into like stat 101 or something and take math 114 next semester. Not doing anything until I speak with adviser though.</p>
<p>haha wut? come on guys ur all just too lazy to work hard for ur grades lol who cares if the teahcer is a little harder lol</p>
<p>I’m fine with difficult teacher. It’s the part where the teacher isn’t rated high and the recommendations for non-majors is low that gets me.</p>