Florin Spinu - Johns Hopkins University

Professor: Florin Spinu

Department: TBD

College: Johns Hopkins University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH202
• 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:

Totally forgettable prof. Heavy accent on top.

Rating # 2

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

He's an absolutely fantastic professor. Explains concepts very clearly and makes reading the book unnecessary. He genuinely wants his students to do well...plus, he's absolutely ADORABLE.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CALCIII
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He is a great professor and explains Calc. III really well. Very good at drawing on the blackboard so that you can visualize the concepts. BTW, he had a silver medal in World Olympiad in Math.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CALC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Spinu is THE MAN! His lecutures were so bizarre (the man compares functions to sushi--plus, you've gotta love the Romanian accent and how he bumps in to random objects every few minutes....) and interesting that I would recommend attending every single one. Tests are hard, but he wants you to succeed and drills a few concepts.Good prep for calc 2.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH108
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Florin Spinu is an awesome professor. It'ss hard to understand him, but if you do the weekly homework and go to lecture somtimes, you should be able to do fine. Also, you'll want to go to lecture just to hear some of the funny things he says. "Where do you find the limit? Do you find it at a grocery store?"

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CALC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

funny guy but he does get frustrated when the class doesn't get something. hard class, but he tries to make you see math from a different angle by trying to make you forget the formulas and stuff you learned and teaching you to figure stuff out from scratch

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CALC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Spinu is very intelligent (Harvard, Princeton grad). His English isn't great, but it's amusing sometimes to watch him misspell words like "number" (ironically). He is pretty thorough and tries to get the class involved. But he does try to make you PROVE everything. He discourages memorizing and believes in "organic" learning. Tests are hard.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CALCI
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

pretty good class.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CALC3
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Thumbs up!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ANALYSIS1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Spinu is very thorough and often goes beyond the textbook. His website is maintained and includes notes and additionalproblems. Also, he responds to emails punctually. He is a really nice person and unbelievably intelligent. But, he makes his tests fairly difficult. Fortunately, he understands that, and distributes grades accordingly. best prof!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CALCIIANDIII
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Great lecturer, his explinations were usually very clear and his tests were fair. He was the reason that I took Calc III.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CALCII
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

spinu's a great professor and he genuinely cares whether you understand the material or not (just go to his office hours!). i like his teaching style but i have to admit calculus is tough. some people just expect college to be nothing but fun, well tough luck cause if it were all so easy it wouldn't be worth much, would it?

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CALCII
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

granted, I took Calc II two years ago, but I remember Spinu being a great lecturer. He was difficult to understand at first, but I found that when I took good notes, and then went back over them carefully, i realized that he explained everything so clearly, much better than the books. It took a bit of effort, but in the end, I really learned calc.

Rating # 14

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

I swear I had a different Florin Spinu for a teacher. He was nearly impossible to understand, and did all his lectures backwards (did problems before he lectured on the topic) which made lecture really hard to follow. The averages on his exams were Fs, so he just curved everyone up to a B or an A-not bad but no one learned any calc!!!!!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CALC3
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This guy is very smart, gices decent lectures, and is EXTREMELY helpful during office hours.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CALC2AND3
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

approachable and very helpful

Rating # 17

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Spinu's hot. Love his accent, his clothes (haha except the shoes, those pumps have got to go), great body, so cute you actually want to go to lecture and listen to calculus lectures-- "minous". He also happens to be brilliant...young grad from amazing schools and teaching at Hopkins!

Rating # 18

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

great guy.. definitely recommend him.. very helpful during office hours as well.. and i aced the midterm :p

Rating # 19

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

i'm giving "MINOUS" points!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CALC2
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

is a brilliant mathematician, but still new at teaching. lectures are fast paced and sometimes hard to follow