Professor
Lara Kassab
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2023 - Genuinely awful class. Just made me miserable and felt like a complete waste of my time. Horrible, unclear lectures delivered with a really depressing tone. The content of the class sucked too -- lacked cohesiveness or direction. Would have really, really benefited from a final project or ANY kind of application. Absolutely no preparation or direction for exams. She wouldn't even tell us how many questions were on it. It's not even that it's super hard -- it's just that you're given no motivation or direction to apply yourself, or any direction on where to spend your time studying. At least a tough class like 131a has a strong foundation and reason for being difficult. This one is just ridiculous. Horrible, don't take Kassab unless you have absolutely no choice. Awful.
Fall 2023 - Genuinely awful class. Just made me miserable and felt like a complete waste of my time. Horrible, unclear lectures delivered with a really depressing tone. The content of the class sucked too -- lacked cohesiveness or direction. Would have really, really benefited from a final project or ANY kind of application. Absolutely no preparation or direction for exams. She wouldn't even tell us how many questions were on it. It's not even that it's super hard -- it's just that you're given no motivation or direction to apply yourself, or any direction on where to spend your time studying. At least a tough class like 131a has a strong foundation and reason for being difficult. This one is just ridiculous. Horrible, don't take Kassab unless you have absolutely no choice. Awful.
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Fall 2023 - The prof sucks. I liked the class material, but the prof made me not like it. She never responds to any emails. She only teaches the minimum, barely any examples or anything close to the tests. She refused to give us practice exams, telling us to just see the book. The TA carried the class, he was great. The prof was very bad. The math department sucks in consistency of quality of professors as well as grading. I think she said she wouldnt curve, even though the average on the midterm and final was C- (71~72%). She purposely isnt allowing regrade requests for the final for some reason, her grading sucks (since I've found multiple mistakes). If bruinwalk would allow me to have helpfulness and clarity as 0, I'd give 0
Fall 2023 - The prof sucks. I liked the class material, but the prof made me not like it. She never responds to any emails. She only teaches the minimum, barely any examples or anything close to the tests. She refused to give us practice exams, telling us to just see the book. The TA carried the class, he was great. The prof was very bad. The math department sucks in consistency of quality of professors as well as grading. I think she said she wouldnt curve, even though the average on the midterm and final was C- (71~72%). She purposely isnt allowing regrade requests for the final for some reason, her grading sucks (since I've found multiple mistakes). If bruinwalk would allow me to have helpfulness and clarity as 0, I'd give 0