<p>"my Russian calculus II professor with a thick accent last semester essentially put us through integral boot camp. he was an intense guy....probably more so than any professor i've had since coming to college.</p>
<p>he pretty much showed us proofs to let us know he owned us."</p>
<p>I heard about a professor at some Ivy league school (who I believe was Russian) who pretty much presupposed the knowledge of differential forms when he taught calc II. Differential forms are supposed to come a little bit later than that (sometime in grad school for most people).</p>
<p>I had a class where the professor didn't think the book did a good enough job at treating the material, and he wanted to do things in the most general sense possible. For the second semester, I think I had at least 100 pages of handwritten notes (and I write small), 100 pages of homework, over 400 pages of handouts, and in theory I should've had another 20 pages of notes had I written things down at the weekly "optional problem session", which was really our grader giving an additional lecture on tangential topics.</p>