Math 32B with Professor Killip was... a memorable experience, to be certain. While at times he did sound a bit like a confused old man losing his marbles (and occasionally evoked flashbacks to Joe Biden's 2024 debate), he was definitely the funniest professor I've had thus far. I may hold an unpopular opinion in that his teaching style aligned well with my learning style.
* There were three midterms, because UCLA decided dumping the Rose Bowl for $80M took priority over sufficiently paying the math department TAs.
* This said, I'm grateful homework wasn't graded...because I didn't do any of it.
* The exams were a piece a' cake:
—> 25% of every exam constituted "easy points" problems.
—> Another 25% of every exam would have a disgustingly clean answer, which you could get to without actually doing any work.
—> The remaining 50% was graded nicely with partial credit. (The lowest grade I got on any midterm was a 77.5% after showing up to midterm day in a stupid Halloween costume, having totally forgotten it was midterm day.)
* The catch? You have to understand the formulas well. But Professor Killip dedicated most class time to working through examples, which really helped solidify the concepts we needed to know.
* THERE WAS A HUGE CURVE AT THE END!! I finished in the A range, and my grade was still rounded up. From people I've talked to, the lower portion of the curve had a significant grade boost.
- My only complaint would be that there was no communication regarding final grades, the distribution of final exam scores, or the final curve.

Well, I can't speak for everyone, but I thought Professor Killip made one of the hardest lower-division math weeders into a very manageable experience. I greatly enjoyed my time in this class.

Pros: hes funny
Cons: Everything else. This professor sucks at giving lectures. He also doesn't provide notes for you to refer to if you missed class. The recordings are either not there or are missing sound so there isn't any point in watching then. In the actual lecture he only goes over doing problems or some very conceptual things that the textbook discusses as opposed to what we need to know in order to solve the problems he gives. This quarter the class was comprised of 20% each midterm (3 midterms total) and 40% final. There is no homework category because of some funding issue with the math department and as a result he posts it weekly but it's not checked or anything. He said that he would make half of the problems on the tests based on homework to check that we were doing it (so ideally if you did the HW you would be an advantage) but he only did this for the first midterm and never for any subsequent ones. And the homework he "assigns" for you tends to be really difficult despite it only being a few questions per week. For reference I once went to the student math center for help and it took not one not two but FOUR TA's to solve ONE of the homework problems. I scored above average on all of the midterms and had a B- before the curve. He didn't even mention a curve at all and I assumed he wasn't going to but he ended up curving anyways since I ended up with an A on my transcript (very thankful for this). I do not recommend this professor for this class but if you end up in it anyways, I would take advantage of Youtube and KhanAcademy as much as possible.

Funny guy but the lectures are genuinely horrible. Teaches concepts in an extremely round-about and complicated way when it really doesn't have to be. This class was entirely self-learned for me due to how bad these lectures were.
He provides homeworks as a way to test our knowledge for the tests. Unfortunately, these answers are never posted nor explained so it is entirely on you to find out if you are on the right track. To add on to this, the exams were extremely different from the homework and asked us types of questions that were never taught.
Overall, he made this class harder than it has to be. You should be okay if you are self-reliant and resourceful on your own but if you want a good professor for this class look elsewhere.

Probably one of the worst teachers I have had. I do not recommend this class at all. The professor throws problems on the board, doesn't even tell you the topic name, and doesn't complete the full solutions to the problems as he teaches. There was homework, but it wasn't graded because of the funding for graders, so the entirety of the grade was 3 midterms and a final, and none of the midterms were dropped. We were told at the beginning due to their being no graded homework half of each test would test whether we did the homework and the other half would test whether we understood it, but none of the tests were ever like the homework problems. Additionally, every other class from previous quarters, as well as the other class from this quarter received an opportunity for a dropped midterm and got a note card on the exam, but this will not be provided in this class. This class is extremely unfair, however there is a curve at the end or else over half the class would have gotten a D.

Lectures were good, learned the material but the exams and all professor-written questions were way harder than what we learned.

This is a hard class! Killip is a great guy and his lectures are engaging, but sometimes they are a bit unclear or confusing. Sometimes he'll spend an entire lecture explaining something simple, but he makes it seem very complicated. He often writes his how homework problems, so no looking in the back of the book! (they are also much harder than normal homework problems).
I'd consider myself fairly good at math, and each week's homework took me about 10 hours, though I know they took others much longer. Killip is an okay professor, but expect a lot of work and don't expect to get your grade curved.

The thing I liked most about Prof. Killip is his tendency to use simpler words instead of formal vocab. His energetic lectures made this class my favorite calc class. Exams and homeworks felt pretty standard, although I did take this class in Winter 2022, which had COVID perks.

I am writing this review two years after I took the class. 32B with Killip is still my favorite class I've ever taken. TAKE THIS TEACHER he is the GOAT. He talks about his kids sometimes and it's really cute :) He gives plenty of resources to study from and wants you to succeed!

Prof Killip is a great lecturer and you really understand the material by the end of the class (except for the last two weeks of lecture). In the last two weeks you learn green's theorem, stoke's theorem, and divergence theorem. And that is pretty much what the entire final is mad up of and wow that was a really hard final. The midterms were reasonable. The homework was hard but doing it made you really understand the material. The class is pretty easy until those last couple weeks. I strongly recommend but be prepared.

Great lecturer! He is lowkey very sassy and funny and explains concepts very thoroughly. If you go to office hours, he is super willing to help you learn and is an understanding professor. Keep in mind that homeworks are very challenging, and that each problem takes quite a while to figure out. Tests are also pretty challenging (averages are anywhere from a high D/low C), but the class is curved. The material on the test is based only off of homeworks and what he lectures on in class. I definitely recommend Killip.