ECON 3010

Following this professor is both difficult and nearly useless. His lectures could not be less clear and in general he is all over the place. He just scribbles a million different formulas and equations on the board and never bothers to explain whether he is just proving a certain example or giving you a formula. Dude is useless

UPDATE POST FALL 2016 SEMESTER:
Here's the thing - this class shouldn't have been hard. The algebra and calculus involved are not incredibly difficult. But Aryal is clearly a very very smart man who shouldn't be teaching undergrads the principles of economics. Aryal is the last guy in the world who you want to teach you a concept for the first time. He taught the class as though we were graduate students who already understood the concepts he went over before he taught them. His examples really stretched the economic principles as far as they would go and he's the type of professor who is going to use the hardest numbers he can think of (Fraction exponents, etc.) in all of his examples.

Aryal's class made me a tougher human. It was a lot like being water boarded for an entire semester only to realize I didn't drown by the time final grades came out. I really do appreciate how hard Aryal made us think and the challenges that he gave us. However, being a junior double major, I didn't need Aryal to take it upon himself to assign problem sets and practice problems that I would need to spend 5 hours with a tutor just to understand the basics of. Like I said, if I was a graduate student in Economics, I really would have appreciated this class. But I'm not, I was a junior undergrad student taking 5 extremely hard courses and constantly feeling inadequate because of how lost I was in his course.

I get the feeling that Aryal is trying his best to really give us a higher level understanding of the material, but he does a poor job of conveying ideas. Lectures are just frantic note-taking sessions without a lot of understanding. He doesn't seem to like the book, which is too bad since his course is in dire need of some structure and organization. Overall, don't take Intermediate Micro with Aryal if you can avoid it.

Don't ask questions, fam. He will roast you

I don't understand all the hate Professor Aryal is getting. He is actually a good lecturer and he tries his best in class to respond to your questions. I also think he has a great mix of Powerpoint and chalkboard. He is also very helpful is office hours. Homework is easy and the exams, while not easy per se, are very fair. Grading is also very fair.

I would definitely recommend taking Econ courses with Gaurab and enjoyed my time in this class.

Prof. Aryal does care about whether you understand his materials. Ask him questions if you feel stuck. He focuses more on calculas and calculation part of Econ than theory, which makes midterms quite difficult. Overall he is not a bad professor.

Worst professor I've ever had in my life. He never actually goes through the math for any of the examples he goes over in class and then is numbers are wrong. Now that his numbers are wrong, assumptions made off of those numbers are wrong, and the entire process you just learned is wrong. It's too bad you don't have time to do the math yourself in class so you won't know until you try to work through the notes on your own later. He doesn't really answer questions during office hours, but instead will switch between "try harder, connect the dots" "you're smart I'm sure you'll do well on the next test. Just keep on doing what you're doing" and "I would upload the answer key before the test so you can study but I have to worry about my phD students."

I don't think the class is supposed to be that hard but he doesn't teach you everything you need to know. His class examples don't cover things you need to know for the problem sets and often his charts and examples done is class are just plain wrong. Careless mistakes everywhere. If you have him be prepared to teach yourself microecon. You'll need to pay a tutor $80 an hour for god knows how many hours to have a chance of passing.

AVOID.

This was very hard. You need to teach yourself a lot of the material. Make sure you do well on the homework because the exams are very difficult!!!!

informative class, yet difficult.

Terrible Professor. His lectures were poorly organized and half the time he would make multiple mistakes while poorly explaining the problem he had on the board. You would probably do better by skipping class to read the book. Do not take this class unless you can self study extremely well.

While his in class lectures are super general, the homework problems are extremely difficult and time consuming and the exams even more so. He also does not like people to ask questions, rendering him near useless. Avoid.