Mike Olinick
MATH
Elementary topology was an extremely heavy in proof writing course: most if not every class followed the structure of we would write a proof in our house and bring it to class where we could present it. The professor then evaluated you based off of the correctness and efficiency of the proofs you chose to present.
Olinick is a very nice person, but as a professor he does not teach very well. Most of the material we were expected to learn on our own from the textbook (which did not make sense and did not correlate with online resources) and in class all we did were examples. I learned most of the material in this class from the internet and the solutions to the homework problems.
Great professor but the exams and the content were extremely difficult. The workload is reasonable, and the professor and TAs were helpful, but again the content itself is just hard to grasp and some of the exams were really hard.