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Maissam Barkeshli
PHYS410 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/22/2024 |
Teaches straight from the book, hardly ever deviates. Homeworks are a bit long but just textbook problems. Exams are generally fair but hard and sometimes tricky. Not the most approachable or warm personality but generally receptive if you do ask or talk about things. Teaching is very obviously a chore for him but he doesn't resent students |
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Maissam Barkeshli
PHYS410 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/19/2024 |
Professor Barkeshli is an incredibly difficult professor who I would not recommend to others. For PHYS410, his lectures were taken directly from the textbook with little inspiration or difference. His examples and lessons were taken straight from the book, often to an annoying level of reading off direct quotes. Many students often didn’t attend lecture since the content was better taught from the textbook. The homeworks did not align with content taught in class, often forcing students to spend hours self teaching themselves in order to understand how to approach them. A similar case was true for exams. It seemed as if the exams and homeworks were from previous years with no updating or checking to see with how they matched the current year. As a person, he is relatively personable and made some jokes in class. However, I’ve heard from others that they had immense difficulty with scheduling exams around holidays and absences, so that is something to keep in mind. |