As one might expect from a calculus course, it wasn't particularly easy or fun. That said, I don't think it was ever unreasonably difficult. The weekly homework was quite manageable with regular lecture attendance, and the quizzes associated with the homework were just questions taken from the homework, and so were also pretty easy. Both midterms and the final were very fair as long as you had some idea what was going on. Really, the course is totally fine as long as you're on top of things. I do wish we were warned in MATH 101 that series would make a brutal comeback though.

The first three weeks were a continuation of the vector calculus covered at the very end of MATH 200. I found that part to be somewhat brutal. The rest of the course was something of an introduction to differential equations, which I found, for the most part, to be significantly easier. These two parts of the course have absolutely nothing to do with each other. It was very interesting to learn more of the math behind a lot of the first year physics equations, and also to learn a bit about other applications of differential equations.

Tom was hands down my favourite math prof ever. His Brightspace had a lot of stuff, but it was pretty well-organized and very helpful. His care for our success was very evident in all the effort he put into creating extra practice problems and detailed pages about all the exams. His lectures were amazing and he would tell us what we should expect on an exam while he was covering the content. He answered questions with tons of detail during lectures, and was quite active in the course forums and so was very easy to reach pretty much whenever. He was also very communicative about homework/marking updates, or if he was going to be unavailable at certain times. If I ever had to take another math course and doing it with Tom was an option I wouldn't hesitate to sign up.

Review integration and series from MATH 101. The less time you have to spend figuring out how series work while learning new content, the better off you'll be.