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Kyeongwon Lee
STAT401 Expecting a B- Anonymous 11/03/2025 |
I'm not sure what's going on in this class anymore. The STAT department needs to do something about its courses and professors. First there's the nightmare with Dr. Zheng's STAT400 class and Dr. Williams teaching STAT410 in the most brutal way, then there's this. Dr. Lee does not seem to go over the concepts effectively at all, instead redirecting us to his practice worksheets whose answers are typically not gone over. This makes doing them a waste of time as we can't even check our solutions to see where we went wrong. The quizzes in this class also have abysmal averages (two quizzes didn't even get a PASSING mean, with one being under 50%). This shows how unprepared many of us feel, even though the quizzes were pulled directly from the practice worksheets. The funny part? ALMOST NOTHING from the lectures shows up in the worksheets, lecture is all PowerPoint slides with conceptual stuff but the discussion is entirely applications of these concepts, which wasn't taught very well. The professor also seems to be very static with learning and doesn't seem to change things up very well. Our midterm review was literally just the professor going back through the very first set of slides and jumping through things, rather than doing practice problems that would be useful for the exam. Recently, we have also had a sub instructor cover the class, and the sub literally went BACK TO THE START of a 90-ish slide PowerPoint that we were MIDWAY through, jumping through slides very quickly. The class GroupMe had also freaked out several times when there were quizzes because everyone felt so unprepared. I hope there's a curve in this class. If so, I'll reconsider my current rating. |
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Kyeongwon Lee
STAT410 Expecting an A- Anonymous 06/12/2025 |
READ FOR DETAILS I was debating writing this review or not, but I decided that it was worth writing. Overall, he is an alright professor. He is not the best lecturer, and his lecture notes are impossible to read, but he goes rather slowly and you can very easily keep up by following the course online with YouTube lectures. He gave one midterm, then cancelled the second one and moved all its weight to homework. This naturally caused grades to spike in the class. To make up for this, he gave a really awfully hard final that we were not prepared for at all (no practice, just told to review the homework. Spoiler alert, it was nothing like the homework.) I literally opened that final and couldnt answer a single question. The average was a 23, with a high of 65, so every single person failed that final. However, I will contest the current one star rating. I do not think he is deserving of this at all. I am rating him 5 stars not because he is a 5 star teacher, but because 1 star is just unfair. If I would rate him, I would give him a 3.5/5 for the following reasons: Pros: - Very kind and reasonable guy who is willing to try to explain anything and can accommodate almost anything - Tries to make the class manageable - Homeworks are pretty easy - Grades very generously Cons: - Lectures are hard to follow because of his thick accent, and his handwriting is impossible to read which makes his notes useless - Gave a curveball final that everyone failed, which was not a good call but honestly I get why since the average grade in this class was >95% before the final... Overall, if you take him, I expect him to change up his teaching style massively next time he teaches. This was his first semester here I believe. I found the following YouTube series very helpful for this course, and would highly recommend regardless of what professor you end up taking: - Probability Theory (Bright side of Mathematics) (Good overview of general theory) - Intelligent Systems Lab probability playlist (good visuals) - jbstatistics (Goes over pretty much everything in an approachable manner, really demystifies a lot of the stuff) - 3blue1brown (Amazing visuals and good for selected topics to develop intuition) |
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Kyeongwon Lee
STAT410 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/23/2025 |
If I could go into the negative stars, I would. He is a generous and funny guy but boy is he a horrible teacher. He will talk and messily write on his iPad quickly the whole lecture with the addition of ranting about stuff outside the scope of the class and writing on the chalkboard, then writing OVER what he already wrote on the chalkboard. He never answers questions directly, and I literally would be more confused after asking a question and getting an “answer”than before I asked it. 7 homework’s weighed 49% together, 1 midterm weighed 25%, and the final was 26%. The homeworks were medium difficulty the whole semester with some really hard problems included in the later homeworks. The midterm was basically the relevant homeworks but problems people never looked at (for each homework, 8 problems total, 4 required, and you can choose 2 from the remaining 4). THE FINAL. it was literally the worst college exam i have ever taken as a STEM major. For context, I studied for 3 weeks and I was speechless looking at every single one of the 8 problems. ONE PROBLEM HAD 8 PARTS! The average was a 23.81% with a low of 6% and a high of 65%. talk about a distribution. do not take this man. the curve was generous but the journey to get to the end was not it. |