Terence Long

This professor has taught: MATH113, MATH115, MATH120, MATH131, MATH140, MATH141, MATH206, MATH213, MATH240, MATH241, MATH241H, MATH243, MATH246, MATH246H, MATH274, MATH299R, MATH310, MATH401, MATH406, MATH410, MATH430, MATH436, MATH461, MATH462, MATH463, MATH695, STAT400, STAT410, STAT464, SURV410

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Terence Long MATH206 Anonymous 03/14/2024	you can seriously finish this course in one afternoon. you are likely to be challenged by maybe one out of the 8 assignments but you'll probably figure it out after a little bit of racking your brain. if not, the TA will probably just give you the answer. this is a pretty great credit filler if you need an extra credit, and honestly knowing a bit about MATLAB isn't a bad idea either
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a C soymilk 02/01/2024	goated teacher. i honestly shouldve tried harder so i don't really have the right to say this... but i half ahhed most of the hw and studied the night before for exam and somehow passed bc he taught well. the class isnt hard if you take notes
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2023	Terence is a decent professor with great lectures, lenient grading, and infrequent assignments. His lecturing is great, he's well-spoken and explains everything clearly. The grading is not bad, when you make a mistake only a couple of points are typically taken off. However, he only gave out 4 homework assignments the whole semester. I would've preferred more, and I fell behind at a couple of points due to this. I needed to cram to catch up, but learned all of the material in the end. I'd recommend Terence if you're self-motivated and do well without much structure. He's also a great guy overall, charismatic and personable.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/21/2023	Super entertaining and interesting guy. Jolly as hell. He has a great knack for lecturing and as someone who's not that fond of calculus, he definitely kept my attention during class. He'll replace your lower exam scores with the final if it's higher, and drops your two lowest quiz grades. One note I will make about Terence is that he LOVES to give out tricky, messy exam questions that magically turn out clean in the end. This is good as you can usually tell when you've done a question right, but it does mean that you will sometimes have to wade through some messy algebra or problem-solving on midterms. Despite this though, I'd still highly recommend him as he's a very lenient grader.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2023	Long is a great professor and has great lectures (the material is straight from the textbook, but I felt I gained a lot by attending lectures because he explained tricky concepts well). Homework assignments aren't too difficult and are problems from the textbook. Exams can be a bit tricky but the practice exams prepare you well and there's a lot of partial credit + opportunities to correct for points back.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting a B+ sbhima 12/19/2023	He's a great teacher and a very chill dude. He's a good lecturer, and there are bi weekly quizzes in discussions. He has his pandemic lectures recorded, so you don't need to go to the lectures, and the only discussions you need to go to are the ones where there are quizzes. The exams aren't too difficult, so if you study, you should do fine on them. The only thing is, is that he doesn't respond to emails at all, which can be somewhat annoying. But overall, I would take this professor again.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2023	I'll start with the positives: Prof. Long gives good lectures and is a generally nice and chill guy. He's good at explaining things and is very approachable. He lectures by the book and the homework is from the book. Exams are reasonable. The negatives are that grading is EXTREMELY slow. We had a take home quiz in late September and another in early November. Neither have been given back to us or graded yet, and our final is tomorrow. We also have not had our second exam given back to us, and we were promised the grades would be posted two days ago. We are also missing one homework and are waiting on info about exam corrections he let us do. However, he told us that if we wanted to get our grades back, we could go to his office hours the day before the exam. But he cancelled them at the time they were supposed to start. Basically we are waiting to know about 60% of our grade currently and it is the day before our final. Absolutely ridiculous and it is not helpful for learning as we have received basically 0 feedback on our work since October.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting an A rayleighscattering 12/11/2023	terence is super chill and easygoing, but i personally did not mesh well with his teaching. he often went into tangents where he would derive formulas or do something the "difficult way", just to be like "wow that was hard... would be nice if there was a better way to do this... oh wait, there is!" before proceeding to teach us a special technique. he never distinguished when he was going into one of these tangents or when he was simply doing a practice problem, which made it hard for me to follow his lectures. he teaches almost straight out of the textbook (although he does skip certain sections or concepts), so i was able to learn from that instead. his exams were definitely tricky but reasonable if you had a solid understanding of the content.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/15/2023	Super chill guy. He wants you to succeed and will do everything he can to help you. Also very entertaining lectures!
Terence Long MATH206 Expecting an A xXx_T3STUD0_xXx 10/06/2023	MATH206 is said to be a very easy class. Some of the problems were a struggle, but the TA was very helpful (shoutout Geoffrey Sangston), Terence was very responsive too in helping when I had problems with the website. Definitely recommend if you want to learn MATLAB or if you need the refresher on how to think while coding.
Terence Long MATH206 Expecting an A akl2025 09/22/2023	The class is virtual asynchronous. The TA and Terence respond to the email and questions well. There are 8 assignments total with 2-4 sub problems, and you complete on your own time before the due date. The last 2 assignments are quite difficult because it requires your math problem-solving skills. Overall, it's pretty easy and you can easily complete this in one or two weekends when the semester starts.
Terence Long MATH206 Anonymous 09/13/2023	This was asynchronous but NOT easy.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/27/2023	Terence's lectures are straight to the point and directly from the textbook. He goes through the textbook in order and does not deviate from it. He has 5-6 homework assignments throughout the semester which don't take too much time. Midterms are a little bit more challenging; his first midterm in my opinion was more challenging than his practice and was somewhat of a time crunch, but overall exams were fair and grading was lenient. I would take him again if I had the chance.
Terence Long MATH246 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2023	Absolutely amazing. Cares so much for his students, goes out of his way to give them all of the resources needed to succeed. His lecture videos are amazing and so so helpful, and he will answer any questions you have whenever, and will go more in depth than even needed to ensure you understand the material in many different ways. He is so good that he is worth an 8am class.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/12/2023	Chill fun professor.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/05/2023	Great professor, very fair. Exams are hard, but pretty fair. Barely any homework throughout the year other than some matlabs which aren't too bad. He's very good at explaining linear algebra and if I had the option to I would take him for another class. Def a Math Department Goat. He is an interesting guy though...
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a D Anonymous 03/29/2023	His lectures are disorganized and has messy handwriting during lectures, so sometimes it's impossible to understand what he wrote. He has online recorded lectures from COVID so I guess those helped a little. His exams are somewhat fair, but we had weekly quizzes in which it varied from TA to TA. I had to try to learn linear algebra by myself.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B akl2025 02/20/2023	Terence is really chilled and interesting lecturer. He might not very organized with his notes, but he explains difficult concepts well. The quizzes and midterms are fair, but the final for Fall 2022 was more difficult that I thought. Overall, his class is good and I definitely recommend it.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/22/2023	Definitely a chill guy and fair exam maker. Straight from the textbook and no one gets A-'s which is cool.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/03/2023	Amazing lecturer. He is a child at heart and conveys things in a great manner. Make sure you go to lecture and really take good notes because some specifics that he mentions are very important for his exams and for the final. Some exams are tricky, but as long as you have a good idea of everything going on from a conceptual standpoint, you will be okay.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/03/2023	Lectures were straight from the textbook, and exams were fair. There were around 6 homeworks other than 2 midterms. He may seem unorganized, but I didn't see an issue as long as you were able to keep up with the lecture content (which was all again, straight up from the textbook). Very approachable, flexible and interactive. One of the most easy going experiences with a math/stat class.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/03/2023	Super chill and very approachable. His exams were as fair as they could be. Lectures directly followed the textbook. He may seem 'unorganized' but I don't think there would be a reason to be thrown off as long as you are able to keep up with the lecture content. He seemed to really care about the content that he taught. Overall a great learning experience. Easily made this into one of my favorite math/stat courses.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/30/2022	Good luck trying to get in contact with this guy digitally, not gonna happen. People complain that the exams are too hard or don't reflect what we do in class, but they usually don't do the recommended homework. Our exams are the hardest compared to all the other professors, but he doesn't give A- compared to other professors. He also replaces your lowest exam grade with your final if it improves your grade. I'd say pretty solid professor, you just have to be on top of your own stuff.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/29/2022	Chill Prof but the exams were hard
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/24/2022	not organized at all, no online notes or recordings, but exams were very fair. the averages were all pretty high. there were like only 5 or 6 homeworks and they were all from the textbook. and then the grade cutoffs were pretty generous too. 90 was an A.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2022	Very cool guy and standard lectures. Follows the textbook to a tea which is great if you fall behind in lectures or want more examples. Generous cutoffs with A being a 90%+ as well but I often found the lack of practice material before exams not great. Sure there was the textbook but there were plenty of examples that were too convoluted or too simple to show up on an exam. Other than that, Terence was great. If you have the option, take Terence.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/20/2022	Lectures are ok but his exams are written so poorly.
Terence Long STAT410 Expecting an A+ ceremonialgradematcha 12/18/2022	i liked long's teaching and he explained everything pretty well, but the class wasn't well organized. there were no notes online, and i missed a week due to covid so it was a bit hard to catch up. also, he never answers emails and would constantly post homework later than he said he would. however, his tests were reasonable. tl;dr pretty good teacher, horrible organizer.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a D Anonymous 12/13/2022	The class is terribly structured and the professor's lectures are not engaging. You are only graded on 3 exams, a final, 2 matlabs, and 10 quizzes (exams taking up the majority of your grade), and messing up on just one exam can affect your letter grade. Only take his class if you are capable of teaching yourself linear algebra. I had to rely on outside sources to understand concepts. Also, he does not respond to emails or he will respond super late.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/02/2022	Terence is probably the best professor for Math240. He always wears shirts with wolves on them, drinks a Mountain Dew in every class, and always references old sci-fi media in his lectures. He's full of personality and passion but is also a really great lecturer. I've never felt lost in his class, though linear algebra concepts can be challenging at times. His exams are fairly similar to the practice ones, but they are a little challenging - especially considering how he doesn't give homework, and the only grades you get are three exams, two MatLabs (very easy), and ten quizzes (moderately easy). He does curve the class by replacing the lowest exam score with the final & dropping the two lowest quiz grades.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a D Anonymous 08/08/2022	Terrence was not a bad professor. However, he don't respond to the emails. Also, he don't give homework at all, by which some people won't learn and won't have enough problems.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/25/2022	Terence is overall a good lecturer. Linear algebra can be hard for some people to grasp and sometimes he went through material fast, but he would go back and answer questions if you asked. His exams weren't that hard and he held review sessions on youtube and gave us practice exams too. He will never respond to his email though so you're better off going to your TA or Terence's office hours
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2022	I have mixed feelings because I felt like I preferred my experience in math141 over Math240 simply because the exams in 240 had so many easy places to lose points. If you study ahead, his classes are very useful, but sometimes not as much if you didn’t. The textbook was so good for the class and he went directly off of it which helped. He also had easy hw and matlab projects but the timings felt rushed
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2022	A super chill down to earth guy! His exams include questions that are VERY similar to questions he gives you in lectures or homework, and overall his other assignments were straightforward and very doable. His grading policies are incredibly lenient, and if I'm being honest, you get what you get for a grade, especially given his generosity with grading. Linear Algebra is quite the new subject for anyone with experience with math from before, and I will say terence will teach it to you well if you're willing and apt to learn :).
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/19/2022	Extremely chill professor. I love this man so much. There is very little homework, but the homework there is is very reasonable and fairly easy so long as you know what you're doing. There are some people who call out in class which can get a tad annoying, but all the lectures are recorded on his YouTube channel; so any time you want to skip and watch the lectures you can. You honestly wouldn't miss too much, but I do overall recommend going to the lectures. The practice exams are fairly close to the real exam, but don't go memorizing them specifically as they don't cover every topic in the testable section and he makes sure to put some of these topics on these tests. The only reason I didn't get an A in this class is completely MY fault as I didn't properly prepare for the exam. Terence is a GOD professor.
Terence Long MATH240 Anonymous 05/16/2022	He's a really good lecturer but I don't think he's ever answered anyone's emails, which can get annoying if you have a quick question/concern. Some of his exams were a little difficult but they were mostly on par with what we learned. The only thing I really struggled with was the T/F sections because they were solely based on theorems and memorization and applying them, and I'm not very good with that, especially since there are hundreds in the book.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/09/2022	You get what you expect in Professor Long's class. He's a laid-back, cut-the-BS Professor who teaches you what you need to know. The exams are easy and the HW is light and reasonable. He gave a small curve at the end, which was nice. MATH240 is not the hardest class, and Long keeps it that way. Long is also pretty understanding if you have to coordinate things with him. Long is simply an all-around solid Professor who will get you through Linear Algebra. Good luck.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/07/2022	Very deceiving - he gently/heavily hints at exams being very similar to practice exams that he gives you, and then the actual exam is the practice exam ramped up if you ever have an issue, I swear on my life that he put a fake email in the syllabus, and will never ever never ever respond to anything if you don't directly go to him. He has all his lectures on youtube though, and they are extremely helpful and match what he actually does in lecture, if you ever decide to go. Also, he has absolutely no authority over the class. I physically could not attend lecture anytime after the second week because of how annoying people were in the class with calling out. Also, I know linear algebra comes pretty easily/quickly to some people, and Terence understands that, but if it doesn't come to you quickly, you'll go crazy. I felt like an idiot several times throughout the semester from him saying things like "you can clearly see this...", "this is trivial...", or he just won't explain somethings sometimes because he views everything as trivial, you know, since he is an entire professor and has been studying the same stuff for years straight............... Content wise, he'll give you everything you need, and the homeworks/matlabs were easy. Sanity wise, i feel insane
Terence Long MATH430 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/09/2022	He was an amazing teacher, all the content is from the book but he explains it in a very understandable way. Homework consistency is good and exams are very fair.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/02/2022	Entertaining professor with very accommodating grade curves. He also cuts out a lot of extraneous/useless material from the course, definitely take his course if you want to learn what you need and have fair grading.
Terence Long MATH241 Anonymous 01/31/2022	Very cool guy. Makes the lectures more digestible. Provided copies of the lectures on youtube. Fewer exams than some other professors.
Terence Long MATH436 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/23/2021	Lecture was straight from the book and not very inspiring which was disappointing since his PhD thesis was in differential geometry.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2021	Best professor ever! He is so nice and his lectures are great. Take him!
Terence Long MATH241H Expecting a B Anonymous 04/25/2021	Great professor! he explains everything very clearly and goes at a slower pace to make sure you really understand what you need to know for homeworks and exams. he doesnt give much hw which is so nice, and the exams are nothing crazy or far off from what weve learned in class. He is very straightforward. Also the TA is very understanding about extensions and I never stressed about this class. He made math stress free and fun
Terence Long MATH461 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/07/2021	Terence is one of my favorite math professors at UMD. He explains concepts very well in a straightforward but easy to understand way and is accommodating to questions during lecture. He's laid back and reasonable with his expectations, overall a nice guy. Only downfall was that he could be hard to get in touch with outside of class or office hours.
Terence Long MATH461 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/25/2020	Dr. Long is a laid back, but captivating professor who teaches the material in a straightforward, clear way. The assignments and exams weren't tricky or confusing at all, and he made sure to be as accommodating as possible during the pandemic.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/10/2020	Great professor. Funny, easygoing and full of energy. He explains the material very well and makes the class engaging. The exams are very fair and he always discusses what will be on them. You've still got to know your stuff but he makes it a lot easier to.
Terence Long MATH246 pavanbhat0710 06/08/2020	He makes the course very manageable and tells the content as it is without unnecessary proofs and such. He is also personable and a very unique, laid back personality. Sometimes the lectures can get a little boring, but they cover the content needed to succeed on the exam well.
Terence Long MATH246 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/04/2020	Terence was not my favorite professor, which is unfortunate because he has such high reviews so I had high expectations. My biggest gripe with him is that he lectures so slow, painfully slow. I understand that for some it's nice to have a slower paced professor so no one gets left behind, and Terence definitely does that. However, if you did understand the material the first or second time around, the third and fourth explanations aren't needed. The slow pace of his lectures got to the point where we wound up 2-3 weeks behind Kendall Williams' 246 lectures (I know because my roommate took Kendall's section the same semester). The benefit of this is that the final exam covers much less material because you don't get to cover as much in the class. The downside of this is that I feel like I didn't actually learn anything. Terence teaches in a way where he gives you the exact steps to solve any problem so you always get the right answer. But gives zero explanation as to why those are the steps we take. So you can mindlessly solve a problem but only because you've memorized steps and in reality have no idea what you're doing (reminiscent of high school for me). Overall the class with him is an easy A but you don't actually learn. So take him if you don't care for math and just need to pass to graduate or if you want to boost your gpa. Otherwise I wouldn't recommend.
Terence Long MATH436 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/16/2020	Dr. Long is a very nice professor. His grading is clear.
Terence Long MATH436 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/02/2020	It is enough to say that Dr. Long is one of the best professors in the Math Department.
Terence Long MATH436 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/13/2020	Dr. Long is a funny, intelligent and easy guy.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/01/2019	Funny, easy, good lectures
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/24/2019	Not a bad professor, but he can be very skimpy at times and go over difficult material very quickly. MATH241 is also heavily reliant on TAs so if you get a bad one you kinda get screwed, but he's a good teacher overall.
Terence Long MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2019	Funny and easier than other professors
Terence Long MATH141 Expecting an A- braniac9 04/11/2019	Great Lecturer. I was in FC though so he had no TAs so took a long while to grade exams. Didn't respond to emails, and when I ask . him if he recieved something of mine he sounded like someone pretending to know what an email was. You will probably have a 5 star experience if he has a TA for your section so your exam can be graded while TLong plays Quake.
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/12/2018	Hilarious
Terence Long MATH241 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/11/2018	Lazy ass fuck. Didn't post the final exam location up until the final day. Emailed asking a few questions never replied back. Mailed about make up exam cause I had another exam but never heard back. Stupid fuck
Terence Long MATH131 Expecting a B Anonymous 08/28/2018	Amazing teacher. Great attitude. Straight forward grading policy
Terence Long MATH131 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/25/2018	Terence is the trifecta for a great math teacher: he's enthusiastic about the material, he can explain the content in an easily digestible way, and is an overall friendly person. I highly recommend taking a class with him if you can.
Terence Long Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/19/2016	Terence is a nice guy. He knows what he is teaching, and his class is good, never boring.
Terence Long MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/09/2014	Terence was an awesome teacher. He is very passionate about math and it shows while he is teaching because he always goes out of his way to show you why something works or why a formula is the way it is. His class can get a little boring at times but overall he is a pretty good math teacher who wants you to get a good grade. He is awesome about giving you opportunities to bump up low exam grades with his grading system.