I went to Columbia and hands down the worst class I took there was Calc I. The professor (might have been a grad student) was just absolutely incapable of explaining concepts in plain English rather than mathematical proofs.
Luckily I had already taken Calc in high school -- I was taking this class in order to get an easy A to fulfill my science requirement, which as a humanities major I was pretty cynical about. Last time I ever made that mistake. But my heart went out to the students that were learning this material for the first time, because all of them struggled due to the poor instruction.
It was absolutely inexcusable given the high tuition costs at the school.
Luckily I had already taken Calc in high school -- I was taking this class in order to get an easy A to fulfill my science requirement, which as a humanities major I was pretty cynical about. Last time I ever made that mistake. But my heart went out to the students that were learning this material for the first time, because all of them struggled due to the poor instruction.
It was absolutely inexcusable given the high tuition costs at the school.