ECON 3010

Peter Troyan is a great teacher for this difficult course. His problem sets are difficult, but they do help you understand the material. The book is not as helpful as it should be, but if you do not understand it then it is a good resource. His slides do help and are the most important resource. This is a class that you have to go because he gives helpful tips in class.

This class is going to be hard regardless of who you take it with, so know that. However, I believe that Professor Troyan offers a young energy and excitement to the course that may make it a better experience. He truly cares about the subject and seems to care about our understanding of it. He also has an incredible knowledge of it and his slides are pretty good at explaining the topics.

His homework is good at applying the concepts and a great practice for exams. You can also work in groups on it and I highly recommend that. Overall, Pete is a good guy for the job. (Also, Bill Johnson is a dope TA.)

Worst Professor

This is a notorious weed-out class in the econ department and is noticeably more difficult and math-heavy than intro to micro. I thought Troyan did a pretty good job teaching the class. I didn't look at the textbook all semester -- lecture and discussion give you all the info you'll need. Troyan looks like he's fresh out of grad school, which I think helped out. 3010 is not as interesting as the intro courses or more advanced courses, but is necessary to go further in econ, and I'm glad I took it with him.

Overall I thought this class was really interesting and am glad I took it. Pete does a good job explaining stuff although he is a little awkward. You don't need the textbook as everything you need if from class/slides he puts up on collab. The tests are difficult because they are a time crunch but overall they are pretty fair if you have been doing the problem sets and not just free riding in your group. Important class for Econ majors obviously because you need it to be in the major but I would recommend it to others as well if you have interest beyond 2010/2020. I can't speak to if other teachers are better but I thought Troyan was good so would recommend him.

While intermediate micro has a reputation as a hard class no matter who you take it with, I would strongly recommend taking it with Troyan if he is an option. Although his lectures were non-stop with essential information, and sometimes it was hard to see how everything connected, I don't think there would be a better way of taking the class. He gives you all you need to know through lecture notes, problem sets, and practice tests making the tests very doable as there is no excuse to be underprepared. Yes, the tests have a time crunch component, and with any econ course it is easy to make silly mistakes, but Troyan's tests are extremely fair, and at the end of the day, not only can you do well in the class, but you can know the material very well. Take good notes while paying attention in lecture, know the problem sets really well, and review his slides online, and you can do very well in this class.

Good professor. The problem sets are helpful in preparing you for the exams. Only one poorly worded question all year, and I got credit for answering it technically correct even though it was not the answer he intended to be correct. Helpful in office hours.

Happy with Troyan as my professor

The course is difficult, specifically the material before the first exam, but Troyan is helpful in office hours and the problem sets help to prepare you for the exams. Your grade comes from 3, non-cumulative exams (each worth 30%) and the other 10% comes from problem sets and the online HW. There are office hours almost every day and that was the most helpful for me. You need to keep up with the work in order to succeed and really make sure you understand the concepts and why a problem is solved a certain way. Troyan is really heavy on the conceptual side. Again, the TAs and Troyan are great resources, so definitely use them. Make sure you look back over the lectures and understand everything from them. His lectures are dense and anything can show up on the exam.

Professor Troyan is sweet and awkward and grades fairly. There are 3 exams, no "final" during finals week, and homework due most weeks. This is a good professor to take this class with.