Birgit Speh - Cornell University

Professor: Birgit Speh

Department: TBD

College: Cornell University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH1340
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very disorganized and incomprehensible grading. On multiple occasions, she's randomly deducted points from my exams and when I ask her about it, she can't remember why she took off points and refuses to fix my grade. One of the worst professors I've ever had.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH3110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

A nice person, but not a great lecturer.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH1340
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

One of my favorite professors I've had at Cornell. Math and Politics is a great class, and she taught it well. Prelims were fair and had an easy final project instead of an exam. She will sometimes wait to get to the same number of votes every time for every iClicker question, which can get annoying. Knowledgeable about game theory altogether.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH3360
• 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: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Like another commenter said, she is a nice person, but her lectures are quite poor. She'll often ask the class a question, then wait about 5 minutes in silence for someone to figure it out, and when no one does, she just gives the answer. This can happen about 1-3 times per lecture.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH3360
• 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: Mandatory

Comment:

She's a nice person but just not good at teaching... Her lecture is not well organized and her notes are very unclear. She seems to be a happy, helpful person and she tries... I found the lectures not helpful at all and just learned most of material from the textbook. The book is very good and cover all the material fairly clearly.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH3360
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I think she is a very good lecturer. Her lectures are clear and organized and summarize all the important points in the textbook. Homeworks are not always straightforward, but they are in general a lot of fun! Enjoy this class very much!

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH2220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Lectures are quite useless

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH112
• 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:

The worst teacher I have had at Cornell. I couldn't understand when she spoke english words let alone calculus jargon. Don't take calc with her!!!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH112
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Try to have another professor.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH134
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH103
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

It is true that you do have to go to class every lecture, but that is because attendance is 40% of your grade! Thats awesome! The material is not hard, and is actually interesting. It is easy to get an A+ if you just do the work.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH103
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

It was supposed to be an easy class, but every class you miss, you get reamed. I even wrote 3 extra credit papers, forged a dentist appointment, but she is a Nazi for grading. I was smart enough to get an easy A, I got a C+ from missed classes. If you like coming to class and listening to her babble, you are golden. If you like to party... Pass

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH222
• 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:

She is a nice person and helpful when approached, but her lecturing style is just terrible... it basically consists of writing some stuff on the blackboard, stating some claim that seems obvious to her at least, and waiting ages in silence for us to get it on our own. Glad she's not the DUS anymore.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH431
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Truly the worst professor I ever had at Cornell. Math is known for abysmal teaching, but she truly stands out as a leader in her field. And nasty to boot. Avoid like the plague.