Marco Colombini | PlanetTerp

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Marco Colombini Expecting an A cristinas1105 04/15/2014	I do not recommend taking this class. The material is very interesting, but the class is taught in an extremely unorganized fashion. Professor colombini did not make any real effort in preparing students for the exams. When you try to ask him a question, rather than explaining the concept, he will keep asking you questions to try to get you to get to the answer yourself. Its really hard to get any information out of him. What's worse is that most of the topics discussed cannot be found online for in a text book, so you're really stuck. I would avoid this class.
Marco Colombini notqualified 12/17/2010	He's a great teacher. That said, BSCI426 is a hard class. Well, maybe not for everyone in the class. The grad students seemed to know everything. But Colombini did everything in his power to make sure I succeeded. If you take membrane, do the following: HW! Redoing HW! Emailing him for helping on the HW! Not study for any of the exams since they're open note and based on the HW! So if you like HW! take this class.
Marco Colombini Expecting a C Anonymous 12/12/2010	Do your grade a favor, take another professor. Trust me!!!! He is very bad with teaching. Seems to lack knowledge in physic. Half of the class dropped. The class rather covered some chemistry, which was out of topic. He is a very unfair grader and rude. I submitted my report/complain to the departmental dean
Marco Colombini Den2010 08/22/2010	Wow, he is horrible. He changed the policy in the middle of the class without telling any students. Seemed to be somewhat discriminatory when comes to grading. Avoid his class as much as possible. I thought he understood material but he doesn't. His lecture materials were out of sync from time to time. And he's lazy too.
Marco Colombini Expecting an A almostdone 02/24/2008	This is a great course and one I would highly recommend to anyone as an elective. It is really intellectually stimulating. A lot of the information that is taught in the course does not have a convenient wikipedia page or other source from which you can teach yourself. So it is important to go to every class and pay attention and take lots of notes. The format is hw due every week (30%), 1 paper(30%), and 1 final (40%). The homework is not too hard if you pay attention in class but it can be close to impossible if you do not. Regardless, Dr. Colombini is very helpful during his office hours as long as you put in some effort beforehand. I ended up having to go to him almost every week. Although the homeworks are hard, he lets you redo them to correct your mistakes so at the end of the semester you should have a 100% for your homework grades unless you are lazy. The paper is not too bad, the directions are just to give an opinion on something new for one of the topics given in class. There is no requirement on length. Mine ended up being about 8 pages but as long as you include all necessary information you should be fine for this. The final can be easy or hard depending on how much effort you have put in to taking notes and making sure your homework is correct. It is open notes so print out computer notes and whatever else you might need. I felt it was a very fair test because I was able to find the topic the questions asked in my notes. Overall if you understand the hw then just review the topics not covered by them and you will be fine. There are actually not too many outside the hw so it shouldn't take too long.

Marco Colombini

Expecting an A
cristinas1105
04/15/2014

I do not recommend taking this class. The material is very interesting, but the class is taught in an extremely unorganized fashion. Professor colombini did not make any real effort in preparing students for the exams. When you try to ask him a question, rather than explaining the concept, he will keep asking you questions to try to get you to get to the answer yourself. Its really hard to get any information out of him. What's worse is that most of the topics discussed cannot be found online for in a text book, so you're really stuck. I would avoid this class.

Marco Colombini

notqualified
12/17/2010

He's a great teacher. That said, BSCI426 is a hard class. Well, maybe not for everyone in the class. The grad students seemed to know everything. But Colombini did everything in his power to make sure I succeeded. If you take membrane, do the following: HW! Redoing HW! Emailing him for helping on the HW! Not study for any of the exams since they're open note and based on the HW! So if you like HW! take this class.

Marco Colombini

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/12/2010

Do your grade a favor, take another professor. Trust me!!!! He is very bad with teaching. Seems to lack knowledge in physic. Half of the class dropped. The class rather covered some chemistry, which was out of topic. He is a very unfair grader and rude. I submitted my report/complain to the departmental dean

Marco Colombini

Den2010
08/22/2010

Wow, he is horrible. He changed the policy in the middle of the class without telling any students. Seemed to be somewhat discriminatory when comes to grading. Avoid his class as much as possible. I thought he understood material but he doesn't. His lecture materials were out of sync from time to time. And he's lazy too.

Marco Colombini

Expecting an A
almostdone
02/24/2008

This is a great course and one I would highly recommend to anyone as an elective. It is really intellectually stimulating. A lot of the information that is taught in the course does not have a convenient wikipedia page or other source from which you can teach yourself. So it is important to go to every class and pay attention and take lots of notes. The format is hw due every week (30%), 1 paper(30%), and 1 final (40%). The homework is not too hard if you pay attention in class but it can be close to impossible if you do not. Regardless, Dr. Colombini is very helpful during his office hours as long as you put in some effort beforehand. I ended up having to go to him almost every week. Although the homeworks are hard, he lets you redo them to correct your mistakes so at the end of the semester you should have a 100% for your homework grades unless you are lazy. The paper is not too bad, the directions are just to give an opinion on something new for one of the topics given in class. There is no requirement on length. Mine ended up being about 8 pages but as long as you include all necessary information you should be fine for this. The final can be easy or hard depending on how much effort you have put in to taking notes and making sure your homework is correct. It is open notes so print out computer notes and whatever else you might need. I felt it was a very fair test because I was able to find the topic the questions asked in my notes. Overall if you understand the hw then just review the topics not covered by them and you will be fine. There are actually not too many outside the hw so it shouldn't take too long.