221 2023W1 was…..if you know you know. Trauma. I think about it every day and sob.

Legit nothing taught in class helped on exams. It was like the person writing them thought the class was an advanced abstract linear algebra class. Course content will fool you into thinking the exams will be manageable.

Out of 200 people only 20 showed up consistently. I don’t think I heard him finish a single thought of his. He also mumbled and just couldn’t teach (probably because he thought the course material was too easy).

Just don’t take it!

Very hard course by Macdonald. No help on piazza. The lectures are only him reading off a textbook. No practical examples. Very little practice material given. Exams had to be picked up in person. The only way to get an A is to read the textbook for hours straight and to salvage old canvas pages for practice material.

Basis, dimension, orthogonality, eigenvalues, eigenvectors. Lots of proofs

Doesn’t help on piazza. Doesn’t give practice material. Doesn’t explain concepts well. Doesn’t hand back exams unless you go in person

There are helpful YouTube videos (3blueand1brown)