MATH 2310

This class was...interesting. Professor Tsai is really welcoming and patient, but just sort of plowed through the material every class. We learned around six sections of a unit in one 75 minute class towards the end of the semester because we were behind. The homework can be long 50-100 questions, but you learn a lot and its heavily weighted and you have multiple attempts to solve it. The weekly quizzes were...ok. The TA was a grad student and took his quizzes out of a textbook that wasn't accessible to us, and made some of them proof based which I bombed because Prof. Tsai only did calculation examples in class. The first two exams were fine, but the final exam (though it wasn't cumulative) was impossible and so hard because Prof Tsai hadn't gone that deep into the unit or done the harder examples bc we were short on time. However, he did curve the exam and our grades hard after we gave him our feedback after the final. #tCFfall2021

I had a relatively enjoyable time in Professor Tsai's class in comparison to what I have heard about the other Calc III professors during the fall semester. Professor Tsai was extremely patient with his students, where he would pause every now and then in the middle of his lectures to ask if everyone understood the concept being taught or if anyone had any questions regarding the content. The homework was not too terrible, it was standard CENGAGE homework based on the notes taught in class (however there were times when there would be 50+ questions, but he would sometimes extend the deadline and the midterms were modeled after the homework and notes). The weekly quizzes were the only thing that impacted my grade but that was at fault of our TA, who used his personal textbook from 1960. Overall, I'd suggest forming study groups to excel in the class.

This is the guy you want to take Calc III with. Very to-the-point about what you need to know for class and clearly knows what he's talking about. A lot of the grade is homework and quizzes handed out in the TA section, and there's only a midterm and a final, both of which he is very explicit about how to prepare for.