Quick First Impressions on Instructors - Spring 2025
This is just a quick first impressions post on professors for this semester. Not in any order:
Professor Rebecca Smith-Terry: my second time having her. Highly recommend taking any class she teaches. She's on top of things, runs the assignments herself to verify things work in the lab, and is always a quick responder to emails.
Dr. George Efi Agbor: my second time with him. He's slightly different in his teaching approach - he seems to favor papers and discussions. He takes his time making quizzes that require you to think. So far the quizzes have been open book. But you must pay attention to the question. I would have no problem taking another class from him.
Professor Matthew Hansel: my first time with him. I think he's on par with my favorite professor (Dr. El Gbouri). Professor Hansel has gone above and beyond in helping students in a subject I really didn't want to take (Python Cybersecurity). He makes it bearable and he's willing to adjust his schedule to help students out.
Professor Jason Pell: my first time with him as a professor. Initial impressions are that he's engaging and also reviews the online material for accuracy. His fairly quick in responding and engages with the class throughout the week. So far I recommend this professor.
UPDATE 5/7/2025:
Just wanted to update saying this was an overall good semester with great professors. My initial impressions proved accurate.
I think Dr. Efi Gabor's Discussion Board questions were some of the best I've seen during my academic journey so far at LRCC. I wish some of the other students had chosen to engage more with the questions, but overall a great job by Dr. Efi Agbor.
Professor Pell's class was fun learning about digital forensics and getting our feet wet on the topic and I liked how a lot of his weekly lessons started off with a video showing digital forensics in action. Also, a lot of his assignments required verbatim answers from the book - something I prefer.
Python class - the bane of existence for all non-programmers. And yet, Professor Hansel made it bearable and do-able. Kudos to him and the extra time he took out of his teacher availability time in the evening to conduct Zoom meetings going over how to get everything done.
Professor Smith-Terry is one of the most efficient professors I've had. One of the best things I liked about her teaching method was she got things graded quickly and responded fast to emails. I find that really helpful if I'm struggling on something - quick feedback is nice.
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