do yourself a favor and don't take this class with this professor. after giving us extremely easy homework assignments and a very reasonable midterm, he gave a 10x more difficult final that was half of our grade. he literally ramped up the difficulty after we already didn't have TAs in the course because of the strike, and they explained the concepts so much better than he did. he literally talks in circles and half of his lectures consist of "um". he was also extremely unaccommodating, and ignored all piazza questions and emails after final grades were released.

Thought this class was gonna be chill after easy homework and a chill midterm (the average was around 90), then my boy Pedro thinks the average was too high and bumped up the difficulty of the final, worth 50% of your grade, with the absence of TA's help in discussion sections due to the strike. The final consists of questions that rarely occur in past homework and looked nothing like the practice final. Actually pissed because it's so unfair literally every professor chose to make the final more accommodating because of the strike but he chose to make his teaching look tough by giving us a hard final.