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Radu Balan
MATH464 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 06/24/2024 |
Course is pretty easy but very time consuming; balan is an awful lecturer and it's much more effective to just read the textbook rather than go to lecture. He does give out a study guide before the midterm and the final, which is helpful, but the final is 50% of your grade which is quite stressful. I would recommend taking this class with another professor. |
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Radu Balan
MATH420 Expecting an A Charl1e1029 05/20/2024 |
Extremely nice professor that is seriously passionate about what he teaches. This course is a very barebones intro to mathematical modeling and your grade consists only of homework (individual and partner) and two group projects. The project descriptions are very manageable and are based on what you already do within the homework. He also checks in with you before your project presentations to ensure that you have done everything right and know generally what you are talking about. His lectures can get extremely theoretical, but he also connects very practical concepts to what he teaches (mostly with the projects). Also a relatively lax grader, and generally a nice guy. |
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Radu Balan
MATH464 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/16/2024 |
Do not expect a curve. Professor is good. You are not over worked but the homework are very challenging. -1 midterm -homework per week (avg 8-12hr commitment) Content is pretty deep but fun. His class is a gpa killer thats the biggest setback. |
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Radu Balan
MATH464 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/14/2024 |
His lectures aren't very good; he usually starts by explaining a concept briefly and then doing an example. These parts usually make sense, but then afterwards he starts to ramble about different extensions of the problem, which becomes extremely confusing. It also doesn't help that he mumbles at the board a lot so it's hard to make out what he's saying. In terms of grading, he's extremely lenient though, as homework assignments are basically a free 100 for submission. His midterm and final were extremely straightforward and made up 75% of your overall grade. If you can do the homework for the class, the midterm and final are free As. The textbook does help a lot with understanding the material, but it does go extremely theoretical with its explanations. Also, Balan tends to reuse test questions from his past tests, so reviewing from testbank is really effective. |
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Radu Balan
MATH464 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/01/2024 |
Lectures can be difficult to follow as he trails off into mumbling or side tangents into content that isn't relevant to the coursework. Coursework is designed to be encouraging memorizing trivia rather than memorizing problem solving tools. If you are an extreme math enthusiast and spend 20+ hours a week studying and understanding the content, he will be a decent professor. If you are a normal student with a life and other things to worry about, avoid this professor. |
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Radu Balan
AMSC420 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/12/2021 |
Amazing professor that really knows how to teach content at a high level while also making it simple enough for beginners to learn anything. Really nice and gets to know his students well enough to support them throughout the course, even ran my code for my final project because my computer wasn't able to handle it. No problem for him, ran it as soon as I emailed and immediately got back with my code results. Helps his students out wherever possible, and definitely cares more about his students learning than handing out grades. Awesome guy, couldn't recommend him enough. |