William Haboush - University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Professor: William Haboush

Department: TBD

College: University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH415
• Grade Received: D-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He is the type of professor that likes to teach the subject his way even if none of the students understand

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH415
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I have really enjoyed having him as a professor. He is an incredibly interesting guy if you get to know him at all and he really cares about teaching the subject material. I couldn't recommend him more.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I did not learn anything from lecture. I had to teach myself everything. The material increased in difficulty fast so this was hard but manageable. If you are coming into this class thinking it is going to be easy, you are wrong and have to be ready to put a lot of work in. Read the textbook and do the example problems in there to learn.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Consistently shows up to class 5 to 10 minutes late. Mutters, difficult to follow what he's doing on the board, and has barely legible handwriting. You'll have an easier time learning the material by teaching yourself out of the book and attending TA office hours.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

On both of the mid terms, one of the forms will have a question that is either "impossible to solve" or just harder. So half the class gets unfair points. He also will say "there won't be a question on this material on this exam" and half of the exam's points will come from that material. Talks to the board, isn't engaging. Wouldnt recommend.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He said that he wouldn't put a certain problem type on the midterm, but ended up putting it on anyways, telling us he would give us partial credit if we at least attempted it. I attempted & lost all points, bringing me down from an A to a B. I just think that's pretty unfair. At least there is a curve. Not a big one though. sigh.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Poor preparation, poor lecture performance. Since there are pretty many lecturers for MATH 285, I really recommend that students pick up other's sections.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

You have to teach yourself the material in this class. Prof. Haboush seems unprepared and disorganized during class, so the lecture isn't very engaging or helpful. The exams are difficult (most people didn't finish), but the results are curved, so the overall difficulty was tolerable for me.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I got a good grade in this class, but has to teach myself everything. He is embarrassingly unprepared. Doesn't proof read the tests until you're taking them, so he'll announce half way through that there is an issue. He makes many mistake in lecture. Try and take with anyone else.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• 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: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This guys is probably one of the worst teachers I have ever had. He just talks into the board not explaining anything, and makes mistakes left and right. He is completely unorganized, never clarifies what will be on exams and doesn't respond to emails. He doesn't even take the time to provide practice exams. This guy does not deserve to teach

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• Grade Received: D
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Just a horrible professor. Talks aimlessly during lecture, gets lost in his own work, and does proofs that don't matter for tests. His tests are graded very hard, and he'll take forever, if at all, to get them back. Take someone else!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• 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:

Every time I go to the class, I see two kinds of people: one with question mark on their head, and the other with fingers scrolling on the screen of smartphones... even though I tried to understand his lectures, he screws everything up by writing LOTS of equations he fails to explain... IF YOU CAN'T AVOID HIM THEN DONT TAKE THE CLASS!!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• 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:

This guy shows up consistently late to his own class, sometimes not even showing up at all. His "teaching" method looks more like he is trying to prove that he knows a subject than actually explain it. Does not prepare problems for lecture and usually screws up when making them up on the fly.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• 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:

Just brutal. Fumbles around the entire lecture on the board, and manages somehow to neither teach the basics of diff eq nor give useful examples. Midterms were too lengthy and tedious. Avoid avoid avoid

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH285
• 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:

This dude is a joke. There are 4 questions on the second midterm, and he found 6 mistakes while we were doing it. I rated interest to attending classes as 2 points simply because I am a person who like to see jokes

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MTH415
• 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:

I came into this class quite familiar with Linear Algebra and walked out possibly worse off than I entered. Haboush is a brilliant man, however he could not teach even if his very life depended on it. I read the reviews on here before taking the class and just shrugged them off thinking "can't be that bad..." Let me just say.. I was very very wrong

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH415
• 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:

This class just makes me laugh. Pretty much the worst case scenario here when it comes to a math teacher anywhere. Always does proofs, NEVER examples, and never makes anything relevant to the audience he's trying to teach. Grading system is bad, you compete with others for grades. Tests literally seem like they were written 5 minutes before class.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH415
• 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: N/A

Comment:

Worst math professor I've ever had. He taught as though the class already knew the material, he spent all his time on proofs that weren't on any exam, and he never seemed to have prepared anything before class: he was always wasting time making algebra mistakes. And on the final, he said that sigma wouldn't be zero, but it was: 1/0. Just great.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH415
• 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:

Haboush is obviously an intelligent guy, but not a good teacher by any means. Spends class time doing proofs that won't help you in the class. I still thought it wasn't hard to get a good grade considering the class before an exam he tells you exactly what kind of problems will be on it. I taught myself from the book and got an A in the class.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH415
• 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. If you are reading this, then you obviously care somewhat about your grades. Go out of your way to not take Haboush. By far the worst teacher I have ever had. Consider yourself warned.