CS 2102

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH Kevin motherfucking Sullivan! Okay, full disclosure: Love the dude, hate his teaching. He is the nicest professor I have had at UVA but UVA needs to fire him. I am not kidding. Discrete Math is such an important class since the concepts follow CS Majors for rest of their careers but this dude fuck the foundations up. Going in, I knew how bad the class was and so I paid more attention in this class than absolutely any other one. I ended up with an A but I barely understood anything that was going on, how to write proofs etc... He needs to abandon using Lean and teach kids how to write everything by hand

Oh where do I began. The weeks leading up to the class, we heard nothing from Sullivan. Wednesday was supposed to be our first day of class, and still not a single email from him. Eventually he emailed us, but he didn't end up posting a lecture until a month or so into the semester. Keep in mind the syllabus states we are supposed to have 2 midterms, 1 final, and 8-10 homeworks to comprise of our grade. We were waiting for our first final that was scheduled for Sep 25, but we still hadn't learned anything. Finally during round 2 of midterms he posted videos! We had our first midterm at the end of October. We also had 1 homework assignment at this point. Then November 6th he finally sent an email saying he would post new lectures, but he did not. We waited and waited, sending email after email. We genuinely were concerned for the wellbeing of Sullivan at this point since he hasn't responded to any of us. On the last day of classes on Tuesday at 4pm, he sends an email saying he will post new lectures that day and release a final exam on Friday (Thursday was Thanksgiving - we were pretty upset). At this point we should have seen this coming, but he of course did NOT post any lectures. We waited the whole week, and heard nothing. On Saturday, he sends an email saying he will post that day - and of course nothing. We finally got the first video on Wednesday of the second week of finals. We had to watch 4 hours worth of videos and complete a final exam by Friday at 5pm - he did give us an extension till Sunday 12pm. Overall, I honestly felt like I only took 13 credits this semester instead of 16. I learned nothing about Disrete Math. Sullivan is a very sweet man when you talk to him, and he does want to help you but that doesn't justify how he has organized this class. I understand Covid has made everything harder for professors to be virtual, but this was just unacceptable. I have heard stories about Sullivan in the past, and I really don't understand how he is a professor at UVA.

#tCF2020

Prof. Sullivan is so disorganized, it's unbelievable. The semester before mine, he apparently forgot to book the room in Nau hall for the final exam, so everyone had to sit outside on tables and across the floor while taking their final. I barely paid attention, half-did the homeworks, understood next to nothing, and didn't study for the final exam. I ended up with an A, so who am I to complain.