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Dmitry Dolgopyat
DATA400 Expecting a C- Anonymous 11/22/2023 |
I just want to make something very clear first: Dmitry is clearly a brilliant man and knows what he's talking about... He's just not a very good lecturer. If you're going to take this class, I hope to you're comfortable with reading chapters out of a textbook to teach yourself, because that's all your semester will consist of. I stopped going to his lectures because I realized that teaching myself the material from the textbook was genuinely a more productive use of my time. Dmitry's midterm study material (practice exams) are a 50/50 when it comes to how similar they are to the actual exams (first midterm -- actual exam was easier than practice; second midterm -- actual exam was on par with practice in my opinion), so it's stressful to try and figure out whether it's over for you or not, while doing the practice exams. I'm the type of person to find the positive in every terrible situation, so I'll try to do the same here. You get weekly homework assigned to you on Webassign, and honestly, I'm always able to knock those out within around 1.5 to 2 hours, and the problems are straightforward enough such that you're able to read the textbook and (mostly) know what to do. Not only that, if you genuinely and honestly do well on the homework assignments, the weekly quizzes are easy, since they're pulled straight from the homework (albeit with different numbers). Yeah, that's it... Whoever you are reading this, if you're like me and took this class due to lack of openings in other sections, I wish you the best, and I believe in you :) If you're reading this and you have other options for professors, please please please take them instead. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
DATA400 Expecting a B- Anonymous 11/08/2023 |
He can't teach for the life of anyone. His sample problems, solutions, and everything else he has ever laid his hands upon are unreliable. Better to drop the course than have this teacher. Run far away. Not worth it. Will screw up your GPA. Doesn't curve. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
STAT400 Expecting an A- Anonymous 10/05/2023 |
He appears to be very knowledgeable about his subject, however he is not a very good teacher and is frankly a very poor lecturer. Much of the lecture is spent with him progressing rather quickly and confusingly through highly complex mathematical proofs for various statistical equations that are completely unnecessary to understand the content of the course, thus resigning his students to an annoying state of frustration at being more confused at the end than they were at the beginning. Most of the material is relatively simple to understand if taught well, primarily consisting of calculating probabilities and working with a couple of different statistical distributions based on their means and standard deviations; however he makes everything so much more complicated and harder to understand when it does not need to be that way. On top of this, he has an incredibly thick accent and the tendency to speak progressively softer as if he is fading away from reality into the cloudy mathematical recesses of his brain. All in all, I found it much more informative to read the textbook and teach myself the material than learn via Professor Dolgopyat's needlessly complex and confusion-riddled lectures. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
DATA601 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/20/2021 |
You better teach yourself, he speaks English with a very thick accent which confuses me all the time. Homeworks are hard if you don't work with others(who are smarter than you). |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
STAT410 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/04/2019 |
Can't understand his teachings at all |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
STAT410 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/17/2018 |
His lectures are useless. You'll basically be learning the material entirely on your own. Also, the average on our final was a 56% and he STILL didn't curve. I urge anyone to take STAT410 with someone else or STAT400. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
STAT400 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/06/2016 |
You will not learn anything from his lectures. He will spend all of the time writing down formulas and answering questions without any explanation The worst professor ever. Avoid at all cost. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
STAT400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/22/2014 |
The professor was okay for Stat400. He seemed very nice and wanted to help. However, his lecturng was not good and only a very small amount of people attended. He puts sample responses on Elms before the midterms and final which are very helpful. He also has homework solutions which help teach you the material and prepare you for the weekly quizzes, a generous 40 percent of your grade. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
STAT400 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2014 |
He is impossible to understand. He speaks very quietly, has a thick accent, and is overall a poor lecturer. Lecture is awful, and the majority of the learning in this class is done on your own or in discussion. I had an excellent TA which made discussion tolerable, but I've heard from friends in other sections that several of his TA's are not good. Grading-wise, this class isn't difficult. Weekly quizzes are usually taken directly from homework problems, and the exams were basically mirror images of the practice exams we were given. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
Expecting an A Anonymous 11/04/2014 |
You should take this class with anyone else. Seriously. Dolgopyat is the worst lecturer I have had to date in any class. He makes this class far more confusing than it has to be in lecture; the material itself isn't difficult. It's just probabilities, means, and standard deviations, but Dmitri will give you overly complicated formulas and actively confuse you. That's not to mention that he lectures through a thick accent and monotone mumbling, so he is very hard to understand or pay attention to. We're halfway into the semester, and only 30 kids show up to the 200 person lecture anyone because the lecture is almost useless. If you have this class with him, you are better off teaching the material to yourself or with friends on your own time than going to lecture. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
Anonymous 12/13/2013 |
The review below does a good job of highlighting the fact that he does not speak clearly at all. His accent and his tendency to speak very softly makes it extremely hard to understand anything he's saying. This translates into being a very poor professor overall, and he tends to go over the problems, so fast that going to the lectures accomplishes literally nothing. Most of the class ends up just studying the entire course out of the book since he does not help at all. The weekly quizzes are 40% of your overall grade, which means if you have a bad TA who does not speak english then you are screwed. I would say that Prof. Dolgopyat is not a good professor for this course, and he does not curve since he does not care about his students one bit. Try to take this course with someone else besides him; this class will be much easier with anyone else. |
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Dmitry Dolgopyat
STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2011 |
Though Prof. Dolgopyat is not the best lecturer (he tends to speak very fast or very low) he does make up for it by providing a wide array of problems, and goes over each one thoroughly. Most people in the class earned an A with a couple almost failing because they were a little too cocky (ppl who scored A's on exams) and decided not to do the HW (worth 25% of grade). He did give them a pass but I don't know if he will do that in the future. All in all three exams and HW is not much to stress a person out but be warned, if you can't follow what the prof is writing on the board without listening to them explain it then you will not fair well in his class. As I've said before he doesn't speak clearly. |