<p>this to anyone that started UCLA as freshman. What classes should i avoid. What teacher will ruin my GPA. And are there any tips u guys can give us underclassmen. i have questions about Orientation/AP test but ill ask later. thnx u if u help</p>
<p>use the <a href="http://www.bruinwalk.com%5B/url%5D">www.bruinwalk.com</a> professor reviews to get a general idea of how a professor is, but take the reviews with a grain of salt. They are usually biased because the people who generally review are those who have strong feelings one way or the other about a professor.
First look for classes you think you would enjoy and try to make a schedule with those classes. Then look around at the different professors. If you know which classes you are looking at and can give us the professors' names, we can probably give you a good idea of what the class is like. I'm sure that among the current students on this board, we can cover a lot of the freshmen classes/professors.</p>
<p>Corbin (Physics), Gleizer (Math)</p>
<p>And try to grab a previous syllabus if you can for every teacher...I try to avoid ones with crazy finals that are 40% or more of your grade..oof!</p>
<p>is corbin just nasty with grades, or incredibly boring and a terrible teacher? and what math does gleizer teach? same question for him/her...</p>
<p>Corbin is a good lecturer, but nasty with test difficulty (25% is "good")and grades. He taught me Physics 1B, while Gleizer "taught" me Math 31B.</p>
<p>Saltzburg is unbelievably horrible for physics, and Katsushi Arisaka is unbelievably amazing (also physics). :)</p>
<p>thanks, flopsy, icarus.</p>
<p>haha that's nice to know. Isn't there some famous professor at UCLA..I think Smallberg or something. I think he's involved with the comp sci dept...</p>
<p>There are a lot of professors here who are famous, some within their own fields, others more widely.</p>
<p>Yeah...avoid Corbin definitely. He has pretty good reviews on Bruinwalk, but his brilliance and lectures is NOT worth the emotional trauma that are his midterms and final</p>
<p>I LOVED Coroniti for Physics, but if you don't like variables and derivations, you won't like him.</p>
<p>And I've heard wonderful things about Smallberg. If you have to take CS31, sign up for him, definitely</p>
<p>I also took CS31 with Prof. Smallberg last year.
He's a smooth lecturer, and very approachable outside of lecture hours.</p>
<p>oh yes - there are several history professors that are great. Professor Chambers is quite possibly the oldest professor I've seen here at UCLA, but he is very entertaining and brilliant in regards to history.
Teo Ruiz (who I'm taking a class with right now) is God (as his first name implies :-P). Seriously, though, he may as well be - amazing professor. Extremely easy to talk to, very nice, and his lectures are hilarious. He picks up students cell phones if they ring in class and makes fun of whoever is calling. Its great. Don't leave UCLA without taking a class with him.</p>
<p>For my own department (philosophy), Professor Normore (the dept. chair) is a great professor, as is Kaiser (who is no longer on regular faculty but teaches during summer sessions. Kaplan is a very nice guy, and extremely well respected in the philosophy community for his work in logic and philosophy of language. Then there are the crazy philosophy professors who most students have at one time or another because they teach the common GE classes. Almog is just... crazy (best word to describe him) - he teaches Phil 7, which is philosophy of the mind. Lawrence is funny and teaches Phil 22, intro to ethics.</p>
<p>what course(s) does teo ruiz teach?</p>
<p>I know that Teo Ruiz is doing a Fiat Lux in the fall about LA. He's planning to take his students on a walking tour of LA. Incoming freshmen, sign up for this class if at all possible! Teo is absolutely fabulous</p>
<p>aww man, i took a fiat lux this quarter about LA with a different prof. it was only okay...</p>
<p>I'm taking 1B with him right now.</p>
<p>ok. so wat required classes are freshmen suppose to take and what electives and what not? i got over 600 on math, almost guaranteed to pass both Eng lang/lit with 3 or 4, and i got a 5 on US. i hear these reults are helpful. But where does that leave me. My major is business-econ.(alot of us are) ...ALSO most of the easy teachers are Writing Comp and the hard ones are Physics lol</p>
<p>oo sorry and thank flopsy, icarus, exilio for ur advice. very appreciated. :]</p>
<p>Daniel Pearl's father is a professor here.</p>