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arrogant ****

i think i genuinely hate this man. he cant teach, he uses stupid australian terms for every concept, and his final was OBSCENELY hard. i had an A going into it (just because i had calc last year) and might of blown it just cause he wrote the test. he has a crooked mouth and its alot of fun to watch him talk. probably the only positive he has.

pleaaaseeee people. dont take this guy i beg you. i made the mistake and i am now regreting in. this guy hates answering questions at the end of lectures, very unhelpful, veeerrryy haaard final. i mean, i think i am doomed when my results come in. no curve, again,,,.. HARRD final. worth 200 points. please i am on my knees people,, dont take this

This guy is completely rediculous. He taught things that weren't on the syllabus and not even in our text. Wouldn't help the students if they needed help and both the TA and Prof. Hamilton made you feel like you were a complete idiot!

should not be allowed to set foot in a classroom. i dont care if he knows his material, bc hes horrible at teaching. he puts his decimal points halfway up so you dont know if its supposed to be 2.5 or 2 times 5. if i didnt take calc in high school i wouldnt know a damn thing. the tests are pretty easy but the final was impossible. stay away!

Definitely don't take his class. Avoid him if possible.

He is full of himself and thinks he walks on water. He can't teach and he doesn't even bother trying to help you learn. Expect to teach yourself. He is of no help at all. I swear I only passed because he thought I was cute. He hit on me when I saw him once for help....and he spent the rest of the time talking about how great he is. Arrogance!

STAY AWAY from this teacher. If you get confused he will not help you... or he'll give you an answer not related to your problem. So essentially, your grade is dependent upon the TA that you get. Thankfully my TA was awesome. Go to math tutoring if needed. The work is ok; the time frame to understand the material is short. (Tests every 2 weeks.)

Dr. Hamilton is arrogant and unpleasant. His explanations are confused and not useful. His grading is haphazard and inconsistent. His tests include stuff he hasn't covered in class or assigned as homework. Stay away from his classes or you will have lots of regrets!

This is the worst professor I have ever had. He explains nothing, talks to the blackboard, expects the class to know everything about everything. He is not accessible outside of class and brushes you off as quickly as possible. He's lazy and makes mistakes all the time, leaving his students more confused than before even entering the classroom.

Not a people person. I've seen him be very rude to students (one person introduced himself to Hamilton and he told him "why bother", refuses to answer questions.) I would never recommend him to anyone. As a teacher- great if you can teach yourself.

He is the biggest jerk ever. I had a family emergency and had to miss a test... Instead of being compassionate he told me his life story and basically said get over it cause my life is worse that yours. Take someone else if you have the option!

Handwriting is terrible. Lectures are extremely abstract and of little help. He is extremely boring to listen to as well. Pray for a good TA if you have to take him. Otherwise, avoid.

I've had some bad math teachers before, but nothing on the level of Dr. Hamilton. He's very smart, but he should not be teaching intro calculus- he belongs in the higher level courses. In addition, I've seen him skip people's questions, he's called me and others "dumb" in office hours, and has straight up lied about material on a test. Avoid him.

DO NOT TAKE HAMILTON! He expects you to know calculus like the back of your hand, but won't teach it to you. We had 4 lectures with him and he got removed as the teacher for Calc 1. He's a smart guy, but he shouldn't be teaching MATH140. He's really rude, as well. He'll never answer your questions, but will tell you irrelevant information.

He is horrible. That should be enough. Do not take if you don't every single part of calculus 1 and truly understand the content.

I took 241H- don't repeat my mistake-- The HW he assigns, the lectures, and the tests do not line up at all. If you want to pass the tests you have to self-study. His lectures make little to no sense and hes rude when you ask questions (has refused to answer). The HW was ridiculously hard MATLAB assignments that had nothing to do with the course.

Reasons why you don't want to take him: - He teaches Diffeq using overcomplicated jargon, Youtube is way more helpful than he is. - Matlab projects are long and complicated. - He is the stereotypical brilliant smug that everyone hates. - Cares more about showing how smart he is than teaching. - Lacks charisma, which makes lectures very boring.

Cannot follow along during lectures, as he doesn't explain while he writes. Homework is awful, as MATLAB literally doesn't help you in the class and doesn't relate to anything you do in class. Pray you have a good TA to help you understand.

His lectures are extremely hard to follow, as he teaches very abstractly and basically assumes you already understand everything. If I didn't have a good TA, this class would have been way harder than it already was, and even then I still had to heavily rely on self-studying. The MATLAB assignments were also very confusing and time consuming.

His lectures are nearly impossible to follow. He always finds the most confusing ways to explain things and does the most confusing/hardest examples in class. So overall his lectures are useless. Homework is decent, usually odd problems from each section. The only positive in my opinion is his tests are fair. Waste of time, would not take again.

Does not teach. Instead, he just does problems at his own pace during lecture as he talks to himself. Very hard to keep up with. And matlab was completely pointless and difficult. Also doesn't use Elms, which is very frustrating because you never know your exact grade in the class. Do not take

This professor is the worst teacher of math I have ever seen. He begins lectures and goes on his own pace in whichever route he wants and has no regard for the understanding of his students. Spends WAYYYYY too much time on theory and basically no time on doing problems. Gives extremely hard exams for no reason with no curve. DO NOT TAKE HAMILTON!

Took Hamilton for Math 246 Spring 2020 semester. His lectures are very fast and he rarely stops to take questions. If you miss one step it is impossible to catch up. It did not help when we switched to online classes because of the virus. Not sure how other professors are, but would not recommend his 246 class.

Worst Professor Ever

Do NOT under any circumstance take this professor. His lectures are equally extremely boring and impossible to follow. His tests are way more difficult than necessary and he doesnt prepare students for them. The TAs hardly understand how to the matlab hw. I believe that currently the class scale with be everything above 60 is a C.

If you're reading this bc you have this professor next semester, DROP THIS CLASS. This dude made me want to chug hand sanitizer. He has no idea how to use ELMS, and takes great pride in making his exams harder than anyone else in the math department. MF wrote his own final exam instead of using the MATH241 exam bc the standard exam was "too easy."

AWFUL. Looking to teach yourself differential equations? Sign up for Professor Hamilton. If not, save yourself the immense amount of stress, frustration, and anger that you will experience if you take this class with him. His notes are next to impossible to understand, offers little help when students ask questions and was VERY unfair with midterms

Not a good teacher. Period. Avoid at all costs. Dr. Hamilton is a very smart researcher but conveys new material and topics poorly. Furthermore, he often displays a disregard for students and commonly ridicules them in class or indirectly in his very informal emails. In the end you will probably pass, but not understand what you were meant to learn

This dude is clearly smart but explaining math concepts cannot be for him. He does not recognize himself as a professor but rather as a freaking mathematician. The class is challenging and not your regular math class with support. The Matlab assignments are really hard since they don't teach it to you but in all fairness no one can teach Matlab.

NEVER take this professor. He has awful lecture material, is extremely rude to students, and clearly has no passion or ability for teaching. I recommend you take literally any other professor, regardless of their ratings, before you take ANY course with David Hamilton. Prepare to learn diff. eq. completely on your own with no help from a professor.

Don't take this prof. You will not end up going to lectures, they are useless. He does not know how to teach even the most basic and fundamental concepts. Then, his exams are ridiculously hard. However, most everyone passes because of the insane curve. He is very disrespectful both in class and through informal mass emails.

The fact that Hamilton is a COLLEGE PROFESSOR makes me question college all together. I've never hated a professor more than I do Hamilton. I had to drop this class because of the lack of teaching Hamilton provided. Not once did I leave class knowing what was just went over. He doesn't care about you and arguably doesn't care about his job. AWFUL!!

Horrible is just an understatement to describe how bad a professor this guy is. I'm just curious how this guy is still a math professor, despite all these bad ratings His lectures are very fast-paced and difficult to follow along, and his notes are almost impossible to understand. Worst professor of all-time PERIOD, take ANY instructor but this guy

His lectures are fast paced in sub par handwriting and while doing examples of problems, he stops halfway through and does something else instead. The TA saved my life since the professor's lectures are hard to stay focused on. His grading policy is very generous, which is the only reason I'm not failing. I'd advise against taking this man

If you are deciding if you can get through a semester of Prof. Hamilton, you can, but it will be with online lectures and a good amount of self motivation. He uses complex mathematical notation nobody can understand. Do attend review sessions, he tells you exactly what's on the exams. Also be prepared to do complex Matlab with no help. Good luck.