Lawrence Aikins | PlanetTerp

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Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 11/09/2023	His slides are copied from another professor, Karake, but the slides are pretty easy to understand and he does post the slides on Canvas. I stopped going to lectures halfway through since his lectures are very boring and he basically reads off the slides word for word. There are in-class quizzes that are announced one class before and exams that are actually pretty difficult even though exams are open note. On the final, a lot of questions were poorly worded and some were not covered in class content. Overall, this class should be easy but don't take it with Aikins if you want an easy A or interesting lectures. He also takes a while to upload grades and TAs are very slow. Some people couldn't go to TA office hours because they simply were not there and are unresponsive to emails. I procrastinated a lot on excel projects hence the low grade but i think average for this class is like a high B with Aikins. His accent is kind of difficult to understand for other people but I personally think it's fine. I just don't like that he reads off the slides.
Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/19/2023	The professor's slides are incredibly horrible, modules are incredibly horrible, and the exams were grammatical nightmares. Nice guy though.
Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/16/2023	As others have mentioned - his lecture mainly consists of reading off the slides. You don't necessarily need to come to class to learn the material. As long as you go over the powerpoints (which he posts) and read the textbook, then you should do well in the course. I seldom went to class and still managed to get a B. The reason I did not get an A was because of the difficulty of the final exam. I relied too heavily on the fact that he allowed notes during exams. If you put in more effort than I did, then you should easily get an A. I would recommend this course if you're looking for a lax course in which you would approach it much like an online course - you read the material, come to class on quiz day, then study the material for the next assignment. Those expecting a deep engaging professor seek elsewhere. One final note: Excel is not as prevalent as I thought it would be. You really only need to know a few functions for the excel projects.
Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/13/2023	He's really nice but his lectures are extremely boring since he just goes over the slides which are pulled directly from the textbook (don't waste your money buying the textbook bc we didn't look at it a single time). His quizzes and exams are pulled directly from the slides but often have questions about really specific details from slides that he didn't go over during class. The formatting of the tests is also really poor; there are a lot of questions that have typos, are misspelled, and don't make sense grammatically. When you ask him or the TAs about it they aren't very helpful either. He'll tell you that specific topics will be on the exams and that you don't have to worry about the other topics but then he goes and puts them on the exam anyways so make sure that you study ALL the slides in depth. Overall, the class itself was not a lot of work and he was a chill professor, but I hated taking tests in this class because they're so unstructured, specific-to-tiny-details-that-don't-matter, and unpredictable.
Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Anonymous 01/18/2023	Very nice man, completely oblivious though. His canvas isn't even his, its a copy and paste of Karakes. Unfortunately is he's not reading from his powerpoint, he makes almost know sense. I stopped going to lectures and spending that time teaching myself the material and I started doing far better. He cares very much about his students and self proclaims his class is very easy, but its not. Get ready to memorize a munch of terms that don't even intertwine into concepts. Its painfully boring material and very repetitive and at the very end, a total nightmare. Probably would've been better if the TA's weren't completely useless, but they were mind-numbingly stupid. Definitely a very kind man, the class is barely tolerable if its not your major though.
Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/19/2022	I'm sure the professor is a great guy, but the lecture was so unstructured and it seemed like he had no idea what he was doing. He was mainly reading off the slides and the Excel projects are okay. It's annoying that they expect us to know everything about using Excel properly. Take BMGT301 with Paul Shapiro. I hear he's good.
Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Anonymous 12/13/2022	Nice guy but he does not know how to teach. The class was horribly structured and TAs were useless.
Lawrence Aikins BMGT301 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/18/2022	Lawrence Aikins is my man. Great professor

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
11/09/2023

His slides are copied from another professor, Karake, but the slides are pretty easy to understand and he does post the slides on Canvas. I stopped going to lectures halfway through since his lectures are very boring and he basically reads off the slides word for word. There are in-class quizzes that are announced one class before and exams that are actually pretty difficult even though exams are open note. On the final, a lot of questions were poorly worded and some were not covered in class content. Overall, this class should be easy but don't take it with Aikins if you want an easy A or interesting lectures. He also takes a while to upload grades and TAs are very slow. Some people couldn't go to TA office hours because they simply were not there and are unresponsive to emails. I procrastinated a lot on excel projects hence the low grade but i think average for this class is like a high B with Aikins. His accent is kind of difficult to understand for other people but I personally think it's fine. I just don't like that he reads off the slides.

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/19/2023

The professor's slides are incredibly horrible, modules are incredibly horrible, and the exams were grammatical nightmares. Nice guy though.

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/16/2023

As others have mentioned - his lecture mainly consists of reading off the slides. You don't necessarily need to come to class to learn the material. As long as you go over the powerpoints (which he posts) and read the textbook, then you should do well in the course. I seldom went to class and still managed to get a B. The reason I did not get an A was because of the difficulty of the final exam. I relied too heavily on the fact that he allowed notes during exams. If you put in more effort than I did, then you should easily get an A. I would recommend this course if you're looking for a lax course in which you would approach it much like an online course - you read the material, come to class on quiz day, then study the material for the next assignment. Those expecting a deep engaging professor seek elsewhere. One final note: Excel is not as prevalent as I thought it would be. You really only need to know a few functions for the excel projects.

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/13/2023

He's really nice but his lectures are extremely boring since he just goes over the slides which are pulled directly from the textbook (don't waste your money buying the textbook bc we didn't look at it a single time). His quizzes and exams are pulled directly from the slides but often have questions about really specific details from slides that he didn't go over during class. The formatting of the tests is also really poor; there are a lot of questions that have typos, are misspelled, and don't make sense grammatically. When you ask him or the TAs about it they aren't very helpful either. He'll tell you that specific topics will be on the exams and that you don't have to worry about the other topics but then he goes and puts them on the exam anyways so make sure that you study ALL the slides in depth. Overall, the class itself was not a lot of work and he was a chill professor, but I hated taking tests in this class because they're so unstructured, specific-to-tiny-details-that-don't-matter, and unpredictable.

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Anonymous
01/18/2023

Very nice man, completely oblivious though. His canvas isn't even his, its a copy and paste of Karakes. Unfortunately is he's not reading from his powerpoint, he makes almost know sense. I stopped going to lectures and spending that time teaching myself the material and I started doing far better. He cares very much about his students and self proclaims his class is very easy, but its not. Get ready to memorize a munch of terms that don't even intertwine into concepts. Its painfully boring material and very repetitive and at the very end, a total nightmare. Probably would've been better if the TA's weren't completely useless, but they were mind-numbingly stupid. Definitely a very kind man, the class is barely tolerable if its not your major though.

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/19/2022

I'm sure the professor is a great guy, but the lecture was so unstructured and it seemed like he had no idea what he was doing. He was mainly reading off the slides and the Excel projects are okay. It's annoying that they expect us to know everything about using Excel properly. Take BMGT301 with Paul Shapiro. I hear he's good.

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Anonymous
12/13/2022

Nice guy but he does not know how to teach. The class was horribly structured and TAs were useless.

Lawrence Aikins
BMGT301

Expecting an A
Anonymous
09/18/2022

Lawrence Aikins is my man. Great professor