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Michael Kleiss
ARCH462 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/29/2025 |
This man is the worst professor I've had at umd. He doesn't communicate with his TA's, let alone his students. He doesn't listen to his students and frequently changes the instructions of the exams or the projects without any heads up. His projects are beyond ridiculous (aka making us bring a brick to class) and then ended the semester by making us model a frame for a precedent. However, he told groups all different directions, his TA's did not help whatsoever, and forced us to bring the very large model to class, not acknowledge it, then force us to bring the model to the next class again. He is the most unorganized professor I've ever had. Now I have him for ARCH464 and he is back and worse than ever. His absence policy is straight bs and goes against multiple university policies. His lectures are the EXACT same as they were in 462 and is testing us on the content again. I understand a review of the past material to refresh but not teaching us anything new and just testing us on 462 content is just ridiculous. Overall, avoid this man like the plague, he is not worth the semester long frustration. |
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Michael Kleiss
ARCH462 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/28/2024 |
I had a pretty good experience with Dr. Kleiss. His lectures are somewhat boring and are in bullet point format or pictures. Make sure to take notes more on what he’s saying instead of doing the bare minimum of bullet points. The exam were somewhat easy, the first exam had extra credit but the other 2 didn’t. Each question was always worth 5 pts so one question wrong brought your grade down significantly. But of all 3 exams I got a 90, 85, 85 so it wasn’t too too bad. The one thing I will say I didn’t like was that at the beginning of the year syllabus he said that all the exams would be open note, open google, etc. but 2 days before our first exam he changed that. Also he never had a material list in the syllabus. So for example on Tuesday he would tell us to bring in materials for class on Thursday. I was able to get them but for those less fortunate who maybe don’t have access to a store near them or mom that could bring them just keep this in mind. Thankfully I also had some of me leftover materials from arch 200 which we used for the finals project. Overall good experience and would take this class again. |