Lixing Miao | PlanetTerp

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Lixing Miao PHIL245 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/31/2025	Very boring lecturer. He doesn't know how to present. I liked the content and the readings but the class was such a slog because he basically just reads off the slides. The class itself is easy but kind of nerve wracking since there's only three assignments. I'm giving him three stars instead of two because despite the fact that he's not a good lecturer, he is a nice person and a good professor outside of class. If you go to his office hours it's very clear he cares about the material. I recommend that if you take him, start the essays early and go to office hours to run your ideas past the prof and his TAs. There's always an element of subjectivity to grading papers and you want to make sure you're answering the question in the way the graders want it answered. I feel like if I had done that more I would have gotten an A instead of A- but oh well.
Lixing Miao PHIL245 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/30/2025	This class was basically participation, 2 papers, and the final, which was all light work. You don't really have to do the readings because he explains them so in-depth in class. His slides have just chunks of text on them that he reads word for word, and he posts them so you really don't have to go to lecture, just the discussions (which were actually interesting). For the final, you just need to study a couple philosophers of different topics really in depth, and you should be fine. Definitely take a 100-level PHIL course before you take this one, and don't take it if it's not necessary for your major/minor. Shoutout TA Jackson Iszler though bc that's my goat.
Lixing Miao PHIL245 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/22/2025	You dont need to do the reading to do well in this class. Just spend good time and effort on the 2 essays and make sure its not overcomplicated. Also the final is not that bad. Lixing's slides are pretty good but I feel as if his presentations lack student engagement. Overall solid class, solid teacher
Lixing Miao PHIL245 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/19/2025	This class is so boring and yet so hard. The readings are long and you don't really need to read them to get through the class. The class itself is fairly easy with weekly responses that you only need to do 6 of and 2 decent essays. However, the final exam is 35% of your grade, 3 questions, cumulative, and closed note. It's basically impossible to know all of the information and which philosopher matches with each concept. Not to mention, you will spend hours trying to memorize but all of the concepts are basically the same so you'll get them mixed up no matter what. Basically don't take this class if you don't have to. The professor is really hard to understand and the stuff you learn is not even English. P.S, hes not even a professor he's a student.

Lixing Miao
PHIL245

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/31/2025

Very boring lecturer. He doesn't know how to present. I liked the content and the readings but the class was such a slog because he basically just reads off the slides. The class itself is easy but kind of nerve wracking since there's only three assignments. I'm giving him three stars instead of two because despite the fact that he's not a good lecturer, he is a nice person and a good professor outside of class. If you go to his office hours it's very clear he cares about the material. I recommend that if you take him, start the essays early and go to office hours to run your ideas past the prof and his TAs. There's always an element of subjectivity to grading papers and you want to make sure you're answering the question in the way the graders want it answered. I feel like if I had done that more I would have gotten an A instead of A- but oh well.

Lixing Miao
PHIL245

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/30/2025

This class was basically participation, 2 papers, and the final, which was all light work. You don't really have to do the readings because he explains them so in-depth in class. His slides have just chunks of text on them that he reads word for word, and he posts them so you really don't have to go to lecture, just the discussions (which were actually interesting). For the final, you just need to study a couple philosophers of different topics really in depth, and you should be fine. Definitely take a 100-level PHIL course before you take this one, and don't take it if it's not necessary for your major/minor. Shoutout TA Jackson Iszler though bc that's my goat.

Lixing Miao
PHIL245

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/22/2025

You dont need to do the reading to do well in this class. Just spend good time and effort on the 2 essays and make sure its not overcomplicated. Also the final is not that bad. Lixing's slides are pretty good but I feel as if his presentations lack student engagement. Overall solid class, solid teacher

Lixing Miao
PHIL245

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
05/19/2025

This class is so boring and yet so hard. The readings are long and you don't really need to read them to get through the class. The class itself is fairly easy with weekly responses that you only need to do 6 of and 2 decent essays. However, the final exam is 35% of your grade, 3 questions, cumulative, and closed note. It's basically impossible to know all of the information and which philosopher matches with each concept. Not to mention, you will spend hours trying to memorize but all of the concepts are basically the same so you'll get them mixed up no matter what. Basically don't take this class if you don't have to. The professor is really hard to understand and the stuff you learn is not even English. P.S, hes not even a professor he's a student.