ENGL294 | PlanetTerp

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Kerishma Panigrahi ENGL294 chadvader29 12/26/2025	Very nice and understanding professor; ENGL294 with her was basically just chill discussions and most of the readings were fairly interesting. The final project was a bit much compared to the workload for the rest of the course (which was pretty minimal). Seems like she had a rough semester (got sick and had to take care of others a lot) so she cancelled class pretty often and took a while to grade things. I am not sure if she regularly takes over 2 months to grade an essay or if it was a matter of her circumstances. Either way, she is worth taking, but I wouldn't expect quick grading.
Kerishma Panigrahi ENGL294 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/16/2025	Dr. P is a very nice person who truly wants to help you improve on your writing. However, I personally do not like her grading system of "Complete," "Needs Improvement," and "Incomplete." Overall, her grading is a bit on the tougher side, but she is fair with the feedback she gives. Also, I think that there was just too many readings for a 200 level course. There were also a lot of in-class writing assignments that basically forced you to read all of them, as she assigned the in-class writings at random, so if you did not read them, you were basically screwed. The in-class writings do count as participation, and she drops the one that you scored the lowest on, so there is that.
Kerishma Panigrahi ENGL294 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/13/2025	She's nice and a pretty good grader! She hadn't taught this course before, and I do think there were quite a bit of readings and random before-class writing assignments based on them, but otherwise I liked that this was a class I didn't have to stress too much about.
Porter Olsen ENGL294 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/25/2024	Surprisingly an interesting class, but not the easiest GENED. I remember putting a good amount of time in my assignments. Lectures are kind of boring and lots of reading. However prof Olsen is a pretty chill dude and definitely cares about the topic he's teaching
Porter Olsen ENGL294 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2024	He is so amazing and accommodating to his students and his assignments are fair. He grades very slow but other than that the class was amazing.
Thomas Earles ENGL294 Expecting an A Phoenix_ourumd 12/22/2010	Pretty adamant about turning things on time. One time a girl forgot to print something out because of a fire drill and he required her to get documentation of the drill along with the signatures of two witnesses. He does not accept late submissions. Other than that, he's a good teacher that genuinely wants you to be the best writer you can be. He's really good at constructive criticism. As long as you stay on top of things (and it's really not a lot of things...) then it should be an easily achievable A.

Kerishma Panigrahi
ENGL294

chadvader29
12/26/2025

Very nice and understanding professor; ENGL294 with her was basically just chill discussions and most of the readings were fairly interesting. The final project was a bit much compared to the workload for the rest of the course (which was pretty minimal). Seems like she had a rough semester (got sick and had to take care of others a lot) so she cancelled class pretty often and took a while to grade things. I am not sure if she regularly takes over 2 months to grade an essay or if it was a matter of her circumstances. Either way, she is worth taking, but I wouldn't expect quick grading.

Kerishma Panigrahi
ENGL294

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/16/2025

Dr. P is a very nice person who truly wants to help you improve on your writing. However, I personally do not like her grading system of "Complete," "Needs Improvement," and "Incomplete." Overall, her grading is a bit on the tougher side, but she is fair with the feedback she gives. Also, I think that there was just too many readings for a 200 level course. There were also a lot of in-class writing assignments that basically forced you to read all of them, as she assigned the in-class writings at random, so if you did not read them, you were basically screwed. The in-class writings do count as participation, and she drops the one that you scored the lowest on, so there is that.

Kerishma Panigrahi
ENGL294

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/13/2025

She's nice and a pretty good grader! She hadn't taught this course before, and I do think there were quite a bit of readings and random before-class writing assignments based on them, but otherwise I liked that this was a class I didn't have to stress too much about.

Porter Olsen
ENGL294

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/25/2024

Surprisingly an interesting class, but not the easiest GENED. I remember putting a good amount of time in my assignments. Lectures are kind of boring and lots of reading. However prof Olsen is a pretty chill dude and definitely cares about the topic he's teaching

Porter Olsen
ENGL294

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/15/2024

He is so amazing and accommodating to his students and his assignments are fair. He grades very slow but other than that the class was amazing.

Thomas Earles
ENGL294

Expecting an A
Phoenix_ourumd
12/22/2010

Pretty adamant about turning things on time. One time a girl forgot to print something out because of a fire drill and he required her to get documentation of the drill along with the signatures of two witnesses. He does not accept late submissions. Other than that, he's a good teacher that genuinely wants you to be the best writer you can be. He's really good at constructive criticism. As long as you stay on top of things (and it's really not a lot of things...) then it should be an easily achievable A.

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