Professor: David Smigelskis
Department: Law
College: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: HUM9999
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Those who don't understand what his overall purpose is in forcing students to think for themselves are intellectually oblivious to the world around them. His life lessons go far beyond any other class offered in the college. Taking one of his classes is a love/hate thing experience that has the chance to change your world perspective.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: LLSO2240
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
One time in class he just forgot how to speak English, so he started talking in Portugese and had the Brazilian girl who normally slept all class translate for him. Alas, he made no more sense in Portugese than he does in English.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: HUMA22400
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Like a freight train rumbling through a barren plain, his thoughts chug along, oblivious to a point, or a question raised, attracting stray iota and dull anecdotes like haphazardly accumulating freight cars with multiple unrelated destinations, functions and purposes. One has as much interest in the class as watching a long freight train go by.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: VARIOUS
- Grade Received: C
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
My favorite teacher at the school. He teaches you how to THINK about the material, not just the material. Sure, he rambles a lot, and it's easy to get lost in his lectures, but after awhile you understand. The man is smart, fair, and helpful. The coursework (one final paper) is tough, but much more stimulating and rewarding than regurgitating info.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: LLSO999
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Worst professor I have ever experienced at the U of C. Self-infatuated pedant and intellectual bully. Enjoys humiliating his students for no particular reason -- perhaps just to inflate his own ego. Avoid!
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: LLSO
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
ditto what everyone else says. may know a lot, but makes no sense in class. class was a waste of time.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: LLSO
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
First, he makes little to no sense in class discussion. No syllabus and no real structure. Like taking class in the tower of babel. To top it all off, he assigned the longest and most vague final I've ever had. Nice, smart and funny--but not best teacher.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: LLSO263
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I had this man for The Federalist Papers. I put that in quotation marks because the course had as little to do with it than you could possibly imagine. Instead he went on illogical meandering monologues about anything and everything under the sun.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: FEDERALIST
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The man taught a course on the Federalist Papers and never once discussed the book. He made no sense what so ever.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: LLSO
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
What the hell? He makes little to no sense in lecture, and his daily emails make no sense. Literally, the man does not speak logical, sensical English. He does make funny noises and makes the class laugh...but not learn...
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