STAT 2120

I love Justin Weinstock. He is a great lecturer, explaining every concept throughly and pausing often to allow students the opportunity to ask questions. Justin is very personable and approachable, so I always enjoyed sharing my questions with him. The weekly quizzes serve as good review material from the lectures, and the labs are designed to be completed in groups. My only complaint would be the homework. Although it is optional, I wish the problems were most similar to what we would see on the exams. However, the homework questions are actually more advanced than the exam questions, so there should be no cause for alarm.
Overall, a great class because of Professor Weinstock.

Professor Weinstock is one of the best professors I've had for sure. He does a wonderful job of keeping you engaged during lecture (although he flies through the material super quick). He drops the lowest 3 quizzes and the lowest 6 labs, so very very generous! The 3 exams are each worth 20% and are not cumulative. The exams weren't too difficult (averaged B's for all of them) and the quiz and lab grades definitely boost. I would definitely recommend taking STAT 2120 with Justin, you won't be disappointed! #tCFfall22

Professor Weinstock is the man. Super cool and chill dude. My friends who took this class with another professor warned me that it was very hard but Weinstock makes it easy. 6 labs got dropped, 3 quizzes got dropped, and there are three exams with no cumulative final. Very good lecturer and all the resources he provided were very helpful. No weekly homework to submit other than the labs (which are done during lab section - and are not challenging. Lab is also optional but HIGHLY recommend you go because the TAs will help you) and the weekly quizzes (took me less than 5 minutes to complete usually). If you need to take this class as a pre-req definitely take it with Weinstock.

Our Friend, Justin Weinstock.

To begin, Justin Weinstock is like 29 years old, wears a Baltimore Ravens sweatshirt to 80% of his lectures, and is built like Bol Bol. He feels like a really helpful fourth year student more than a professor, in a good way. For reference, I went to his office hours two days before the third & final exam, and my man was just running around showing the first question on the exam to people on his laptop. Super cool guy, clearly very passionate about the course material. That course material however.... ranges from boringly meh to mind numbingly incomprehensible.

It. Just. Moves. So. Fast.

There are two lectures a week, and in these, you can expect Justin Weinstock to absolutely BLAST through 25-40 slides at a speed that will either a.) demolish your hand you're taking notes so fast or b.) leave you in the dust questioning every single concept that was covered. You will absolutely need to put in extra time OUTSIDE of the lectures to understand concepts, because the EXAMS ARE HEAVILY CONCEPTUAL. (GO TO OFFICE HOURS). There are three exams, each noncumulative, so the 'final exam' is really just exam 3. You're also allowed to bring a full 8.5x11 page of notes to each exam, because, to quote Justin; "Statisticians don't like to memorize". Okay.

Here's Justin's grading breakdown
25% labs (2x week)
15% weekly online collab quizzes (5 questions each, open note, and pretty easy to land 5/5s every time)
20% Exam 1 (Easiest content in the course, I landed a 95)
20% Exam 2 (I thought it'd be easy again and bombed this one... way harder)
20% Exam 3 (Difficulty somewhere between the first and second exam)

Here's the thing: There are 30 total labs and 12ish total quizzes, but Justin DROPS THE LOWEST SIX LAB GRADES AND LOWEST THREE QUIZ GRADES. I landed a perfect score on both labs and quizzes pretty easily. The easiest way to do this is to GO TO LAB. That may sound crazy, but because labs are simply online gradescope assignments, tons of people just... don't go to lab? If you go to lab, the TAs there will guide you through everything, and you can ace every single one, without fail. That's 25% of the class, right there.

Overall, while the concepts in Stat 2120 are pretty difficult at times, Justin makes it more than possible to attain an A- if you put in like 4 hours a week. Don't be afraid of this class.

The best statistics professor by far. I was worried that STAT would be hard, however Justin gave possible the most fair and balanced workload for a 4 credit course. The labs truly were just information you learned straight from the lecture the day prior, but they taught you how to apply some of the skills you learned in different ways. The exams were very similar to the labs and you get a page of notes front and back to help you with the formulas. They were very fair with the averages being in the high 80s. Take this class with Justin, as he is incredibly knowledgeable about statistics and genuinely wants his students to succeed, and this is evident by the fairness of the class. The last few weeks of the class the topics were very obscure and much harder than the first couple months, but with the page of notes you get on the final, it should be manageable to get an A- in the class at least. #tCFfall22