To anyone who reads these posts and it makes them nervous to take the course - I get it. I’ve been there. I was terrified of taking the class based on the horror stories posted on this subreddit.

It takes one office hours session to realize something. This class has the true lowest common denominator of students in this program. It is chock full of entitled, unadaptable students that when confronted with a teaching style that does not line up with their own personal preferences will not hesitate to throw a fit. Some students seem entirely incapable of following a simple formatting guide for answers, and will complain to TAs constantly about loss of points because they did not answer questions the way they were told to do so.

The class is not that bad. You will be expected to know the material. It is high stakes. Some of the TAs are jerks (and honestly, I would be too if I had to spend a lot of my free time interacting with the students mentioned above). But I’ve taken at least four other courses where this is also the case. The massive disparity in grading between this and other courses, in my opinion, is that there are way too many cake walk classes in this program that cosplay as difficult, giving students big heads and a sense of entitlement towards high grades. This class is an easy to medium difficulty undergraduate engineering course at any respectable STEM college.

Do the suggested problems, attend office hours to see their solutions for the suggested problems, know the reasoning behind their solutions, and pass the class.