<p>senatecourseguide has absolutely terrible reviews for every single math 118 professor that is available. Does anybody want to share their experiences on the class and the professor that they had?</p>
<p>I'm in it now with Haskell.</p>
<p>OK, here's the deal.</p>
<p>Every Math 118 professor sucks. Period.</p>
<p>That said, some are better than other. I recommend Cyrma Haskell. </p>
<p>Pros: She nice.
She SPEAKS ENGLISH!!!! This is a BIG DEAL for the USC math department.
Available for office hours.
Actually wants her students to learn.
Fair grader.
Very knowledgeable.</p>
<p>Cons:
Class is WAY too in depth for an introductory calc course.
Daily in-class assignments.
HUGE and impossibly difficult homework assignments.
Quizzes and tests full of "trick" questions designed to fool or mislead students.
She spends too much time explaining the simple stuff then rushes through the hard concepts.</p>
<p>It's gonna suck, but the best thing I can say is just get it over with.</p>
<p>Yea I have Haskell too. Amazon's assessment is accurate and I'd give the same recommendation.</p>
<p>Community college cal is pretty difficult too.</p>
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<li><p>if you have previous experience with calc. the class is much more manageable correct?</p></li>
<li><p>so theres lots of HW in this class, is this HW For our own benefit or do we actually turn it in? (and if we turn it in, is it graded based on how many we missed/got right or whether we actually did it?)</p></li>
<li><p>its curved?</p></li>
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<p>thanks</p>
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<li>Yeah it would help since most of the learning you'll do by yourself (same goes for MATH-218 as well).</li>
<li>HW is usually optional, but the quizzes can be directly related to the HW. This question more so depends on who you have as your prof.</li>
<li>Of course.</li>
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