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Stephen McDaniel KNES483 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/14/2024	I guess I'll start with the good: Dr. McDaniel is very knowledgeable. He has a fantastic voice, is genuinely a good lecturer, and cares about the topics he teaches. It's a shame he doesn't care about us actually learning it. The bad and the ugly? Basically everything else. Dr. McDaniel simply does not care about us doing well and instead just needs his power trip. The class is structured horrendously. He goes through a billion slides per class but doesn't post them for us to access. If you're sick and can't make it to class, you're SOOL. There's 6 total grades in the grade book. 3 pop quizzes (you take 4, he drops one, but they're ridiculously hard), a project, a midterm and the final. All quizzes and exams are unfairly difficult considering we don't have access to the information. He posts a ton of readings but tells us to prioritize his lectures over them, even though we can't effing access the lectures. He gave a lot of guidance on our projects, but that only led him to be an*l about requirements and give genuinely rude feedback. He essentially laughed in our faces, in front of the entire class, for our mistakes. He takes weeks and weeks to grade everything, it's insane. He showed up late to almost every class, but on the first day gave us strict rules about walking in late and/or leaving during class. He didn't even want us to use the restroom during class, at our grown age. Can't use phones in class. Can't get up for any reason. He's a ridiculous professor and genuinely I don't understand how he's still teaching. All of the horrible reviews are true. It's seriously a shame because the guy can for sure lecture. I just wish he cared about his students. DO NOT take this class. I only did because I had no other option for upper levels. Save yourself while you can.