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Nicolas Christou
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Prof. Christou really cares about his students and he is happy to answer questions. Yes what he teaches is more difficult than normal STATS 10 classes and his tests are freakingly hard, but his curve will save you. He is the only professor I have seen who has office hour every day. Definitely love him!
Prof. Christou really cares about his students and he is happy to answer questions. Yes what he teaches is more difficult than normal STATS 10 classes and his tests are freakingly hard, but his curve will save you. He is the only professor I have seen who has office hour every day. Definitely love him!
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Fall 2022 - I dropped it right before the deadline, don't take it. The professor does not explain anything throughly, and the class just ends up completely confused since he does not give enough context to understand each concepts. I took AP Stats in high school, but that was not nearly sufficient to help with this class. It is nice that he holds office hours nearly every day, but even then, I would not leave understanding his brief explanations. True, maybe things changed after week 3, but leading up to that, I was under too much stress to self-teach the lessons.
Fall 2022 - I dropped it right before the deadline, don't take it. The professor does not explain anything throughly, and the class just ends up completely confused since he does not give enough context to understand each concepts. I took AP Stats in high school, but that was not nearly sufficient to help with this class. It is nice that he holds office hours nearly every day, but even then, I would not leave understanding his brief explanations. True, maybe things changed after week 3, but leading up to that, I was under too much stress to self-teach the lessons.
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STAY AWAY from Christou. His exams are psychological experiments, and do not measure what you know. The midterms are not inherently difficult, but there is not nearly enough time to complete them. His final exam? A total joke. It doesn't matter how much you study you will not do well. And he tells us this! "The test will be hard and long." I don't need to hear that when I have three other finals to worry about. I ended up with a grade that I did not deserve even after all of my hard work. Then he tells us "grades will be submitted on Tuesday" and they don't appear until a week later. I am NOT taking Christou for 100B solely because of his ridiculous final exam.
STAY AWAY from Christou. His exams are psychological experiments, and do not measure what you know. The midterms are not inherently difficult, but there is not nearly enough time to complete them. His final exam? A total joke. It doesn't matter how much you study you will not do well. And he tells us this! "The test will be hard and long." I don't need to hear that when I have three other finals to worry about. I ended up with a grade that I did not deserve even after all of my hard work. Then he tells us "grades will be submitted on Tuesday" and they don't appear until a week later. I am NOT taking Christou for 100B solely because of his ridiculous final exam.
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Fall 2018 - Instead of complaining again about the super hard exams that everyone already knows. I would like to talk something else about Dr. Christou. I know that his tests may make your quarter super stressful and all, but if you plan to go to graduate school, you should take at least one class with him. It gives you the taste of graduate school, the "challenging academic life" that you always want to have as stated in your Statement of Purpose. I took 100B and 100C with him. I spent at least 3 hours every weekday to study for his class alone. His tests force you to learn, and sadly, yes, you have to put more priority to his class in order to do "good" on the tests. He helped me so so so so much when I applied to grad schools as he would do to you too if you ask him. That was when I realize how much he cares about students' success. You should not go to his office hour before having already tried your best on the assignments, show him that you made efforts to solve them. Now probably you think that I go to his OH everyday and am his favorite student or something, NO, I barely went to his OH, less than 5 times when I took 100B. If you plan to go to grad school, take a class with him, before you apply, go to his OH to ask for advice, tell him what your plan/concern is. To those who are applying to grad school in statistics: GPA, major, and whether if you took Math115A/131A/151AB/164 /142 matter the most when you apply.
Fall 2018 - Instead of complaining again about the super hard exams that everyone already knows. I would like to talk something else about Dr. Christou. I know that his tests may make your quarter super stressful and all, but if you plan to go to graduate school, you should take at least one class with him. It gives you the taste of graduate school, the "challenging academic life" that you always want to have as stated in your Statement of Purpose. I took 100B and 100C with him. I spent at least 3 hours every weekday to study for his class alone. His tests force you to learn, and sadly, yes, you have to put more priority to his class in order to do "good" on the tests. He helped me so so so so much when I applied to grad schools as he would do to you too if you ask him. That was when I realize how much he cares about students' success. You should not go to his office hour before having already tried your best on the assignments, show him that you made efforts to solve them. Now probably you think that I go to his OH everyday and am his favorite student or something, NO, I barely went to his OH, less than 5 times when I took 100B. If you plan to go to grad school, take a class with him, before you apply, go to his OH to ask for advice, tell him what your plan/concern is. To those who are applying to grad school in statistics: GPA, major, and whether if you took Math115A/131A/151AB/164 /142 matter the most when you apply.
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