Orla Aaquist - MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB

Professor: Orla Aaquist

Department: Physics

College: MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PHYS252
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Things to know about Orla: He likes to challenge his students. If in his lectures he finds a challenging question, he will put it on the next assignment. He is very accessible outside class. He also doesn't just give you the answer, we will help you reach the answer through discussions. He works to engage the class in discussions

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PHYS212
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Orla is an average prof, older and kind of scattered. But is definitely forgiving with marking if you try your best in his class. This class is not your typical physics class as it is a lot of theory and minimal calculations. Tests are tough, must study.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PHYS208
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

MANS GOT A YOUTUBE PAGE!!! BEST PHYSICS SINGER!! GOTTA GIVE HIM PROPS FOR THAT.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PHYS126
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Marks real hard in the Lab. Brought down my mark for sure. Will take marks off for random errors. Gives a grading rubric, but following that will still result in an error somewhere, somehow. If I could do it over I would've went with a different lab prof.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PHY124
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Oral made me feel stupid a lot when called on in class and would get sidetracked all the time. Although he uses great examples and really explains things so you understand. His tests are SUPER easy, is an easy marker and he tells you EXACTLY what will be on exams. If you show up to class and do your work you'll do great.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PHYS208
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Really solid lectures, uses great examples and other materials to convey the topics for this course. Passionate about what he teaches. Fast becoming one of my favourite profs at macewan.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PHY124
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

His lectures are full of side tangents onto unrelated topics which wastes lots of class time, in addition he consistently makes mistakes and spends outrageous amounts of time working though one problem on the board. Bottom line is he is wastes most of the lecture time and you are better of teaching your self the material on your own. don't take!!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PHYS124
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

If you value your GPA, don't bother taking a course with this professor (tbh I dont know how he still has a job at macewan). Not helpful at all (infact he takes pleasure in making his students feel inadequate and stupid) and his exams/assignments are unreasonably difficult. If you want to pass this class, I highly suggest reading the textbook.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PHYS124
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He gets distracted a lot and loses his train of thought. He tells you exactly what will be on the exams, he exams are super easy if you do all the assignments. He is a little condescending at times and sometimes makes you feel stupid. If you can understand the material defiantly take his class.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PHYS124
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Very helpful and fair prof, but seems like 100 level classes are too easy for him. He doesn't fully engage and forgets where he left lectures off all the time. Lectures can be a waste of time, but as long as you do the homework and pay attention to what he says will be on exams you'll do well in his class.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PHYS124
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He tries, but if you don't know what you're doing, you're in trouble. Luckily, I knew what I was doing.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PHYS124
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Physics is a tough subject and Orla tries his best. Low rating, but the subject itself is hard. Can't blame Orla for a subject being really hard. Do your assignments, read the textbook and pay attention in class.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PHYS124
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He was all over the place. His lectures didn't really make sense, and he was quite contradictory. He only liked about 4 people in a 60something person class. He would complain that our class average was below 50 but he wouldn't offer any sort of help. You've got to read your textbook, and going to class is almost not even worth it.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS124
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst Prof you can possibly imagine. If you take his class and don't show up you might actually get a higher grade. Asking questions results in 1 word answers, unless you're a girl then he'll explain in great depth. Class average was 30% for pretty much the entire semester We didn't finish the last chapter even on the last day of the semsester

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS108
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He often is disorganized and not prepared for class, while going through slides information is incorrect. At the beginning of the term the dates he gave us for midterms were wrong and not corrected until about a week before. Doesn't often go through examples fully in class and leaves us with difficult examples to finish on our own.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS124
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

no just no

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PHYS124
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

WORST. TEACHER. EVER. Unclear, terrible notes and left numerous chapters for us the learn on our own. Not very approachable. If you take his class, keep up with the textbook reading.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: PHYS208
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great prof, really enthusiastic about what he is teaching. Quantum physics is not an easy thing to understand as it is almost completely counter-intuitive to everything you know to be true about physics. He made the concepts fun and easy to follow - and added challenging homework questions to assignments to make us think. Very fair exams.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PHYS144
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

No online notes. Doesn't reference textbook enough, very unorganized. Often makes things way more complex than they need to be. He is insanely smart, but that is almost a hinderance to his teaching ability because he can't explain things in a simple manner for first year students. He expects you to know concepts that he never went over.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS124
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Ya as I suspected like most profs, would just leave out most of the relatively simple problems for us to figure out like high school physics and math, but what I really didn't get was he always just has us figure out really hard problems without an example on how to do it