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Fabrizio Cariani PHIL210 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/25/2023	Don't take this class if it is for a gen-ed. It is not easy to get an A, in fact, it is very difficult. The content was interesting, and there wasn't that much work in the class. So you might be wondering, why did I end up with a B+? Well, the professor is clearly knowledgeable, but he intentional made this class hard to get a good grade in. I got a 50% on my first paper. When I submitted it, I knew it was not very good, but it certainly was not THAT bad, especially given that I have no philosophical background. I thought that the grading would be understanding of that fact, but it was not. He told the class that he told the TA to grade us strictly, and later told us that much of the class would end up receiving a B or lower. The future papers I got B's on (only a few students get A's on the papers), but clearly, that wasn't enough to make up for the first paper. If you have some room in your schedule, I don't recommend taking this class, unless you want a class that requires a lot of attention.
Fabrizio Cariani PHIL210 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/18/2023	This class is a GPA destroyer. I expected it to be super easy and interesting, but it was much harder to get an A than I had expected. There was very little work, but there were a few papers that were graded extremely harshly. The TA graded the papers but Dr. Cariani specifically ordered him to grade the papers harshly to bring our grades down, and he was proud of that! He was very open about his desire for only about 10% of the class to end up with some sort of A. I did manage to get an A+, but that is only because I had a meeting with the TA and we connected well enough that he went back at the end of the semester when he saw I would get either an A- or B+ (I don't know exactly) and he gave me a few extra points on some past assignments to boost me up to an A+ intentionally because he wanted me in particular to get an A+ out of the kindness of his heart. For most of the semester there was no way of knowing what our grades were because of a weird grading system that did not translate into ELMS very well. Dr. Cariani said he would update us throughout the semester and give grade cutoffs so we had an estimate of what our real grades were, but I don't think he ever did. Very often he would say he would upload an assignment or slides or an announcement by a certain time or a certain day, but he rarely if ever met his own deadlines. He would typically upload things about a week after he said he would. In the end, everyone's grades and GPAs were ruined and everyone regretted taking the class. It's nothing short of a miracle that I got an A+, and I can only thank my TA for that, not Dr. Cariani. If you take the class, you might find it interesting, but be prepared to not get any type of A. Instead, you should expect maybe a B+ at best. This is not the easy gen-ed you probably think it is.