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Philip Piety
Anonymous 03/01/2023 |
INST-651 Dr. Piety is very unclear in what he expects from his students. I had to redo my final project twice and both times I couldn’t figure out what he wanted me to change or do. I ended up having to write a Letter of Arbitrary and Capricious Grading, waiting for the judgement, and still getting a C+ because I didn’t know what he wanted in the first place. Worst professor I’ve ever had and he’s the only bad one in the program. All of my other teachers have been awesome. Dr. Piety should not be teaching- he’s horrible. |
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Philip Piety
INST466 Anonymous 05/12/2022 |
These reviews speak for themselves. If you can, please do not register for any of this mans classes. It will save you a lot of unnecessary stress. Would give 0 stars if I could. |
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Philip Piety
INST126 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/22/2022 |
So I had 335 with him as well, and after reading a lot of the reviews here I can definitely understand why people feel negative about him. Personally, I never had any issues with elms assignments or him being responsive to me even though I am a pretty lazy student. I would definitely agree that 335 was questionable at times as it's own class, also the bronze falls simulation didn't really seem to be worth the time we put into it, the scoring system and limited moves made very little sense. A lot of people struggled with 126, and he seemed totally willing to work one-on-one with students. I personally worked on coding with him at least 3-4 times and he was only harsh once (but he was right). He tried his best to make sure I actually understood why things worked and I appreciate that. |
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Philip Piety
INST466 Expecting a B- Anonymous 03/07/2022 |
Had piety for 335 and 466, terrible experience that comes with constant nagging and personal criticism from him. Will waste your time and give you busy work assignments. |
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Philip Piety
Anonymous 02/14/2022 |
Really wishing I had read these reviews sooner. Believe what you see about this professor. Avoid at all costs. |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/04/2022 |
By far the worst experience I have had in a class during my time at UMD. I originally registered for his specific section, despite the negative reviews, because it was the only available online section of the course. During the summer, Piety requested for it to be in person. I was pretty upset about this but there was nothing I could do. At the beginning of the semester, he opened up a Zoom room where students who were sick could still be in class without having to come in person. Piety asked how many of us came to campus just for his class, a pretty high number of us raised our hands. This was strike one. Piety's lectures were absolutely boring. You could tell that he attempted to be interesting and "fun" in the delivery of his lectures, but the content was terrible. On top of that, the first 15 minutes of EVERY SINGLE CLASS was him complaining about how students were "abusing" the Zoom classroom and how those on Zoom did not want to participate. He never tried to understand peoples' situations. The majority of my poor experience with Piety was in how he resolved conflicts. There were times during the class where I did not receive points I should have. Logically, I would email him on ELMS to ask why I did not receive those points. He would respond as if he was hurt that I noticed his mistake, and would often times not even speak to me about the point over email. He would always say "meet with me during office hours." Why should I have to meet with you to speak about it when I have screenshot proof of the work being completed and turned in on time? On top of that, his deadlines for group work was ridiculous. He would often assign group assignments where you had to meet and record your Zoom meeting and would expect them to be due in the next 3 days. This is not enough time for students to organize to meet. His class is not the only one we are taking. Oh yeah, he also had his negative reviews removed a couple years ago and actually addressed it in our class saying that he didn't understand why he had them and that, essentially, they were made up/not applicable. Overall, Piety is not organized, arrogant, unreliable, and just a bad professor. If you can manage to stay away from his section, do so. If not, be prepared to have to fight with him about grades and deadlines until the last day of classes. |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/27/2021 |
This class is a complete joke. Worst teacher I’ve experienced in UMD. INST335 is already a bullshit course…but with Piety it’s intolerable bullshit. Everything about his class is unprofessional and his lack of awareness in how ineffective his lectures and assignments are is unreal. At least 35% of the lecture is pointless babble and his assignments are easy, but extremely mind numbing. I can appreciate a bullshit course knowing I’m getting credit and an A for it, but I can’t appreciate a course that’s unbearably miserable to follow in its useless gander knowing I’m paying for this. There’s weeks where we do this “teamwork simulation” which winds down to a barely functioning multiplayer game in which you play a game of checkers. He assigns groupwork on a thursday and expects it done on a sunday despite knowing students rely on weekends to do their part time jobs. This class prepares you for nothing and his merit as a communicative instructor is the worst as he never communicates things properly when it comes to instructions, and when you try to clarify, he gives you an attitude. His grading scale and assignments aren’t even insurable to secure a good grade, even if you tried. I’ve gotten A’s in much harder INST classes, and i’m appalled that i’ve gotten an A- in this course knowing it’s a joke. |
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Philip Piety
INST651 Anonymous 12/17/2021 |
Piety is arrogant, out of touch, and disorganized. Rich learning is meaningless jargon. Course is not user-friendly because he refuses to use Canvas. Lectures are unstructured complaints about student work quality. Will only explain expectations and feedback over individual meeting where he rambles for an hour. Uses derogatory language to describe students (“fresh off the boat”). Vindictive and arbitrary grader. Acts like he’s doing you a favor by dealing with his lack of organization. Changes assignments last minute. Most readings are 20 years old. Lowest quality, most irrelevant course in the school library specialization. |
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Philip Piety
INST126 Expecting a D+ Anonymous 11/22/2021 |
He hardly knows the subject matter at all and when it was time for us to work on assignments he threw us into hard assignments with little to no guidance. He also had a poor attitude especially when people had a hard time understanding the course work. In these cases he would belittle you as if you were stupid. I was not the only one from my class who had to retake INST126. Now, I am at the end of my second semester in this class with a different instructor and currently have a 97%. That should show you how much of a horrible professor he was and it not just being the course work. |
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Philip Piety
Expecting an A Anonymous 04/13/2021 |
the worst professor in the infosci department. a terrible lecturer who doesn't even understand what he's doing. also so rude and mean to students. doesn't prepare students for future class. taught myself. |
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Philip Piety
INST126 Expecting a B Anonymous 08/30/2020 |
he is a horrible professor. don't take him. he drops your letter grade by 1. he does that every semester |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/01/2020 |
Most arrogant professor I've run into that can't provide well thought out rubrics for projects |
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Philip Piety
INST126 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/28/2020 |
Not sure why he has all these awful reviews, I haven's had any of these problems. He's been very responsive, reasonable, and understanding. Some assignments seemed a little sloppy, but I think they were made mostly by the TA. He lectures relatively well, somewhat engaging but makes some mistakes occsaionally. Overall, one of the more engaging and reasonable professors I've had, but execution is slightly sloppy. |
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Philip Piety
Anonymous 05/08/2019 |
Got all negative ratings and reviews striked and removed from RateMyProfessor = extremely shady and unwilling to accept any criticism or negative feedback. DO NOT TAKE! |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Expecting an A- Anonymous 02/20/2019 |
https://old.reddit.com/r/UMD/comments/apmmeg/professor_reported_all_of_bad_reviews_on/ I got an A- in his class, but only because God was on my side. He's a horrible professor + deleted all of his bad reviews on ratemyprofessor. I made the post on reddit exposing him, dm if you want more information about him + his class. |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Anonymous 02/19/2019 |
Piety is without a doubt, one of the worst professors I have ever had at UMD. Piety refuses to acknowledge when he makes a mistake and won't listen to anyone who may be even insinuating that he may have done some wrong (even if it's something as small as asking clarification about a rubric). He refused to respond to any of my emails with my concerns about a grade on an assignment under the excuse of "only the group project leader can email me" and then ignored my project leader when she attempted to contact him. He even refused to accept doctors notes from students who had diseases such as the hand foot and mouth disease. He gave people with valid doctors notes 0s and acted defiant when confronted about how this is completely in violation of university policy. Recently, I found out that professors can report and have negative reviews about themselves deleted from RateMyProfessor. I submit a negative review about him back in December, which was approved and posted to his page. His page used to have several negative reviews, and I learned recently (through a UMD subreddit post) that they were all deleted. |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Expecting a C Anonymous 02/14/2019 |
https://old.reddit.com/r/UMD/comments/apmmeg/professor_reported_all_of_bad_reviews_on/ He got all his negative reviews removed from ratemyprofessor |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Anonymous 02/12/2019 |
Really arrogant guy |
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Philip Piety
INST335 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/17/2018 |
Tries way too hard to be relatable and isn't a interesting lecturer. Still calls on students like a middle school teacher. |