Larry Blume - Cornell University

Professor: Larry Blume

Department: TBD

College: Cornell University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ECON3680
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

boring and unorganized

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ECON6100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He is disoriented, disorganized. He takes wrong notes to class several times. He is good at making jokes and telling stories but not giving lectures and explaining things. He gets impatient when you ask silly questions. I would have done better if I started working by my own earlier.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ECON3130
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Blume is a poor explainer of the concepts in class and then when the tests arrive they contain material you have never seen before. He neglects to inform the TA of anything that will be on tests so the review sessions are worthless at best. He hands out no syllabus and cites simpsons paradox when talking about grades (look it up).

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ECON3130
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Definitely the worst professor I've had at Cornell. Lectures were scatterbrained and only covered basic concepts, while problem sets were difficult and exams were impossible to study for. The TA had no idea what was going on half the time. It's honestly worth pushing intermediate micro off for a year to avoid taking a class with Blume.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ECON3680
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

if you're going to take game theory 3680, you might as well skip lectures and watch these http://www.academicearth.org/courses/game-theory

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ECON3680
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Lectures are essentially useless - Blume goes over the concepts broadly, but the homeworks and tests go much deeper than what he covers in class. The textbook is close to useless and Blume insists on holding makeup classes when HE misses class. Terrible class, if at all possible, do not take.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ECON6100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

"Considering recording lectures for his superiors to see!" Lol... like Easley? He is very smart, arrogant, a pain in the ass to deal with, yet broadly interesting; he enjoys and has knowledge of lots of random things. He's not out to get you, he is just extremely disorganized and teaches as if you're having an intellectual chat over coffee.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ECON6110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I have taken two of his classes, and can attest to all the ratings below. Tried many times to find a redeeming quality over the past year, but he is simply an arrogant, pompous buffoon. Lectures are beyond worthless, in that they detract from the time you have to teach yourself the material. Considering recording lectures for his superiors to see!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ECON610
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Completely useless. TA's are the key in learning anything from his courses. Does not teach, no textbook, could care less about how students do or feel about him. The Econ dept. should be ashamed but then again, they dont.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ECON6100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Worst prof ever-- disorganized, a poor lecturer, pompous, arrogant, and a power-tripper. Relies on his own incomplete lecture notes that are filled with typographical, math, and grammar errors. Grading is opaque. You're on your own with this guy.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ECON3680
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Bad textbook, mostly useless lectures. For some reason I went to them though. There was marginal entertainment value, and occasionally I learned how to do a problem. Mostly he just talked about the existence of concepts, without actually explaining them, though.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ECON6100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Lecture is useless...be ready to learn everything on your own...

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ECON3680
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Worst professor ever... he will randomly cancel class and demand to have make-up class at the most inopportune hours. Wouldn't really matter because his lectures are beyond useless.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ECON368
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

don't take it.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ECON3130
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Very disorganized, teaching has nothing to do with the book, useless lectures.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ECON611
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I was going to throw my opinion here as well. Luckily, others have already done so. Nice guy. Disorganized. Unclear. A bad teacher.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ECON669
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Disorganized, unclear, unhelpful and condescending.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ECON669
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I would never take a class with this professor again.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ECON669
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very nice man once you spend some time with him. Extremely smart- engage him in conversation about his work and he responds well. A little fazzled but if you take the time to listen and do the work it comes together.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ECON368
• 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:

This guy makes such an interesting course easily the worst class in the Econ dept. He does not teach at all but will go on and on in lectures how smart he is...take the class with Basu if you can. He is incredibly rude, too.