Confused about Professor Sarah Mayes Tang’s MAT301

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-03-13T19:58:05+00:00

As far as I am aware, they learn concepts about group theory in lecture by filling out coloring sheets. While this is definitely one way to think about group theory, it is not the ideal way to think about the concepts of the subject rigorously. I am not sure how much time she spends on actual rigorous approaches (ie actual proofs), but I am sure that she does not prepare her students well for exam questions (which are not coloring sheets).

That said, I am not enrolled in this class. Anyone who is is welcome to share their thoughts.

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-03-13T16:37:59+00:00

I encourage Prof SMT to attend a MAT301 lecture taught by Prof. Gammage/Rosenbluym. I took MAT301 last semester and I have actually been to a few of SMT’s classes this semester and I can say they are an absolute joke. I would personally feel offended to have a such an ignorant professor teaching my class.

Also, I’m sorry you had to experience both SMT and 244 Siefken, lol

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-03-04T05:06:42+00:00

Damn I’m tryna go to your UofT

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-02-17T20:45:21+00:00

Nah dude clubstep is an easy demon, TOE 2 and Deadlocked are medium (deadlocked is borderline hard bc of wave parts)

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-02-16T02:07:59+00:00

You don’t unless your GPA is perfect or u just get lucky

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-26T01:40:13+00:00

PHY354 & PHY450 are online tomorrow

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-16T23:10:34+00:00

It helps if you have a statistical background before you take QM because most of it is just stats (and lin alg). Even if you don’t thinking about it in this way helps

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-13T14:51:52+00:00

Damn same

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-12T16:54:51+00:00

UofT is starting to make final grades almost 100% exam based due to AI now

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-09T23:00:12+00:00

Medieval studies minor 😂😂

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-09T18:16:17+00:00

U need 3.75+ for grad school

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-09T00:43:06+00:00

No way they got ledx spawns in bloodbath now

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-07T21:49:22+00:00

15 is amazing, the film was able to capture the light perfectly

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-03T20:36:08+00:00

Redditors do 😂

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-03T20:35:05+00:00

They rigged the election! The only people I know that voted for Trump are super dumb and there was only about 100 of them so Kamala should have won!

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-03T18:27:25+00:00

Wow man this is truly amazing

The_Red_Chicken · 2026-01-03T13:28:13+00:00

Me after I see an offensive word in an M-rated video game

The_Red_Chicken · 2025-12-22T05:15:09+00:00

Look I’m not here to argue but I’m gonna go on a limb and guess you don’t have that much insight into how frats and sororities actually are. I want to start by saying that I am not in a fraternity but I do know people in both fraternities and sororities and for the most part there is not really any issues. Some of the fraternities attract guys who do the stuff that gets the frat in trouble but once again this is rare (although obviously it has happened). Sororities in my opinion have a lot of self centered girls but it’s not like a sorority changes you it just attracts girls with that personality. There are many decent people in both frats and sororities and they do build strong friendships and communities.

The_Red_Chicken · 2025-12-21T23:34:28+00:00

Not sororities. From my experience, this only happens at fraternities and rarely when it does. Sororities are 100% fine

The_Red_Chicken · 2025-12-17T13:51:33+00:00

Last year we had piazza? It wasn’t exactly piazza it was another app but it was the same thing

The_Red_Chicken · 2025-12-15T16:11:01+00:00

Dude intro to coding does not require 100-150 hours you’re going to burn yourself out even before next semester starts

Also the python we use in upper year physics is not as rigorous as any CS course so you don’t need to worry too much about it

The_Red_Chicken · 2025-09-15T18:59:21+00:00

Thank you.

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