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Mihai Pop
CMSC423 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 03/06/2023 |
The good: Professor Pop is lenient with deadlines and as a student with health issues, this is very helpful. The bad: Professor Pop gives us a choice between watching pre-recorded lecture videos or doing a reading prior to coming to class in person. This way we learn the material outside of class then he reviews in person. I personally am against this teaching style. Lastly, sometimes coming to lecture in person feels like a waste of time because it’s hard to follow along with what he’s saying. He’s clearly super smart but makes things harder than they really are |
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Mihai Pop
CMSC423 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/17/2022 |
Professor Pop was very accommodating to students: he offered both in-person and Zoom recorded/streamed classes and allowed you to propose your own deadline for some assignments. The workload was also very reasonable. Make sure to study for the final; it was a bit difficult. |
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Mihai Pop
CMSC423 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/16/2022 |
Probably the most understanding professor I've ever had. The entire class was basically asynchronous, every week we had a online "mini-exam" (called End Of Module Assessment) that wasn't too bad, you could easily get full points on a lot of them. The in-person lectures themselves are review of the videos we have to watch before class, but he goes in more depth and they are helpful for the end of module assessments and the final exam. Has a great late policy for projects (you're allowed to turn them in late if you write a reflection as to why you failed to turn them in on time). The projects themselves weren't too bad, most of them you can complete in less than two hours. My only problem with this class is the amount of quizzes each week. It's not a lot, but they were all due on Tuesday, even for material that he wasn't going to cover in class until Thursday. The final was somewhat difficult, but in the end he curved pretty well after accounting for this. Overall, Mihai Pop is a great professor to take for CMSC423 and I heavily recommend him. |
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Mihai Pop
CMSC423 Expecting an A- Anonymous 02/01/2021 |
As someone who has mental health problems and turns things in late a lot, pop's class was perfect for me. His class is a decent amount of work, but I excelled at it because of the way he taught and walked away learning a lot. |
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Mihai Pop
CMSC423 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/30/2020 |
Passionate teacher and very understanding about stress and potential extenuating circumstances during online classes. He provided many ways for us to manage deadlines for projects and exams. |
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Mihai Pop
CMSC423 Anonymous 12/25/2020 |
Dr. Pop was a wonderful professor this online semester. He spent the whole summer planning for the class and it showed. His lectures helped clarify the confusing parts of the textbook. He had a generous late policy for programming assignments and quizzes and was very helpful in office hours. Highly recommend. |
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Mihai Pop
CMSC423 Anonymous 01/24/2018 |
Great professor who cares a lot about bioinformatics and the success of his students. Fun (well, as fun as lectures can be) classes and interesting presentation. Lots of tiny programming assignments that weren't harder than 330, but the last two can be a little bit of a pain. His exams are really fair, pretty much only covers what has been said in course unless he explicitly stated it. I'd recommend to final semester seniors. |