pefect time to sleep..

YOUNG BUT NOT HOT! She TRIES to make technical english interesting for engineers.... stop trying! Find a good TA like McGill.

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She was very helpful and very approachable. Probably the best prof I had this year.

Most boring class I've ever attended. Had to pry my eyes open in order to stay awake and absorb the material. Though, I wouldn't say that it's her fault that this course is so damn boring.

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Very boring (mandatory) course. I think I attended like 3 lectures ... Anyhow, I think she's very good looking but she seems shy.

genuinely cares for students...great prof!

It's not the teachers fault I hate this course... I just hate english courses in general. She seems like a nice prof, but english is evil in my eyes. If you like english, she'd probably be a good prof to have.

Very approachable prof who knows her material, and knows how to teach it too. :)

At first i didnt find the class useful, but then she began teaching on how to write memos. I feel that this is very important and useful material that we will need to know in the future.. she did a great job teaching the work.. i didnt have to read text.

nice prof, actually cares about her job, but the course material is boring as hell, they think engineers have no english skills whatsoever...!!

Boring material. She tries her best to get the students interest in the material (paper airplanes) and will go out of her way to help students (lab reports)

Willing to provide individual assistance to students who desire it. Overall an effective professor.

very helpful prof and very approachable

Helps improve English as evidenced by what I write now here

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A Very helpful Prof. for anyone who finds themselves very "scattered" in their writings. An all around great English professor! Thanks Prof. Flynn

She's a very scattered lady. Sometimes, I just want to tell her to BREATHE. But overall, the class is an easy A!

I think she is a good teacher. People take her for granted. I think she is always in a hurry because she gets to class late and tries to catch up but she still manages to have some fun,especially the paper airplane contest. Keep up the great work!

SHE CARES!!! ENGLISH IS EASY AND FUN!!! I think we need more english training as engineers, we can't even argue on the course bullitin without resorting to threats and personal insults. SHE IS HOT (MUAHAHAHAHAHA)!! ENGLISH IS MY FAVOURATE SUBJECT

I'm not sure why people have been such jerks to her in the past- Maybe I'm biased, being a writer in my spare time, but seriously- She's better and cares more than most all of our other profs. If you hate English, that's your own problem.

I hope she has tears of joy after reading all the good comments for her. She basically told us in hidden messages to come here, and rate her. Flynn, Screw the faculty and give us a Higher Average than you are supposed to.

Boring course!

Makes you want to learn to impress her. Looking at her pretty face makes class worth every minute. My one and only sweetheart.

It is obvious she cares, doesnt stand up for herself when the class gets too rowdy....shes too nice. Gotta love her though.

Great prof, who cares about her students !!!

great lady.

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I think this teacher is one of the best english teachers that I've ever met. She is very caring once you get to know her. She is always willing to bargain deadlines and she wants her students to do well. Being in her class made me like writing.

No idea why everyone gives her such a hard time.

She likes to spend 15-20 mins each class chichating with students, and tends to lose track of the time very easily. She writes disorganized notes too. However, she is really a caring prof and quite a lenient marker. Trust me, you'll love her...especially her lovely face and voice. She is soo hot.

Tough prof, but then again I'm a science student and I don't have to write much.

The course is a waste of time. The teacher is not bad though. You yourself try to explain something like the stuff she teaches. The good news is that ENG182 isn't mandatory anymore. Me feels good knowing that the next generation of engineers won't feel sorry for the wasted time as me does.

Unlike other ENG100 classes that are a seminar format, my class was lecture+tutorial format. Prof Flynn honestly wants students to do well & will spend a lot of time helping students. Unfortunately, she also spends way too much time answering questions, so she easily losses track of time. Assigned readings are unnecessary if you listen in class.

Just from reading some of the comments on this site, it's completely evident why ENG182 should've stayed mandatory. She can't speak in complete sentences? Most people here can't even write full sentences in a comprehensible manner. While Prof. Flynn may not have been the best lecturer, she at least showed an effort to help us.

she is a fair teacher and did everything she said she would (making sure we'd get the highest mark possible)

I had a fairly good impression of this professor. She is very helpful if you speak to her one-on-one after class -- those talks can seriously raise the marks of your essays! Classes are admittedly pretty boring, but I still thought that this was a good university introductory course.

I highly recommend Prof.Flynns course to any undergrad. It teaches you to write! Prof is extremely helpful and even gets to know students of a first name basis. Even if you're not an English major (I'm going into nursing) this course is a must!

great prof, one of the best I had during my time at uoft

Decent teacher and she cared about helping us. This was her first time teaching as a class of 200 almost, may explain some lack of feedback. Overall a nice woman, talks in short fragments, but its because she seems to be composing her thoughts. The class was alot of work, and the book was absolutely useless. She was cool though.

I loved professor Flynn. She was so nice, helpful and very approachable. Her lectures are very interesting and her organization is unparalleled. Her tests and essays are very fair. One of my favourite profs at U of T by far.

Great professor. Engaging, enthusiastic, and a quirky sense of humor. She's very approachable and encouraging. Lectures are bit dry sometimes, but not always her fault. Take her in your undergrad, you won't regret it.

When it comes to teaching Modern Literature, she is perfect. One of my favorite profs. from U. of T., and one of the most helpful courses in understanding how to read, analyze and approach literature. An incredibly efficient, fair and capable teacher.

Prof. Flynn is such an amazing lecturer. She's engaging, knows her subject so well, and really wants her students to learn, understand, and become interested in the material. I took ENG214 with her in first term and liked it enough to also take ENG213 in second term. I'd definitely recommend her. The marking's not hard either!

Solid reading list. Gives interesting modernist interpretations. Easy to get a high grade. Genuinely nice individual as well.

Good but not what I expected in the class. Sometimes very off topic and not the kind of writing I wanted.

Brilliant slow readings of all the topics and works we covered. She's a hell of a professor with a huge capacity for caring about her students.

She sometimes goes off topic, but is very helpful and cares a lot about her students. She will take time outside of class to clarify anything. I found that the fill-in the blank-type questions on the exams were very difficult and unneeded.

Really thorough, helpful Prof. Lectures sometimes feel a little slow, but only because Prof. Flynn tries to ensure everyone understands the material, and is benefitting from the content. She really seems to care that students do well, and happily interacts/helps with anything.

One of the best professors I have ever met.

Although it is mandatory to attend in order to get in class papers, she is great with providing instructions for completing work outside of lectures. Also gives helpful feedback in order to improve. Lectures over all are long but still helpful and and interesting, plus shes got a great sense of humour.

Well spoken, interesting lectures. However easy her outline sheets make her tests appear to be, don't slack. Short answer sections can get very specific. Even if it says the q's will only focus on plot, get familiar with the films + discussion topics from lectures. The course can be enjoyable, but don't take it lightly.

She genuinely cares about the students and ensures that instructions are clearly posted on blackboard. She was even nice enough to let us go early when we had a midterm for another course later that day. I would love to have another class with her

I am a bit impartial, as I had a highly great experience with Professor Flynn. I went to practically every office hours she had, and she worked a great deal with me on my paper. She has an unbelievable ability to articulate the English language, and it was a pleasure to work with her. She also provided me with a great reference letter upon exit.

She's nice and all but her lectures are a bit philosophical. For this course, I kinda felt lost most of the time because her lectures are a bit straying from the readings that we had to do. Lots of writing but she's a fair grader.

Deirdre Flynn greatly emphasizes the importance of critical writing and its applications to my other courses. Without her expectations and criterias, I wouldn't have succeeded efficiently throughout my university studies. Thanks for the preparation that this professor has helped me guide to build a stepping stone to my future writing career.

Prof. Flynn is very disorganized and makes concepts and assignments way more complicated than they need to be. I did not enjoy her class and she did not enjoy teaching it because of the big class size. That being said, for some reason I really liked her as a person and when talking one on one, was really helpful. I learned a lot despite everything.

Her course has changed the way I write. I'm deadass going to write a novel bc of this course.

Super nice prof! Weekly assignment, two/three papers, no final this term. TA will grade 40-50 papers per week, so get ready to write grade appeals. No need to attend lectures.

my fav prof so far. she's a bit disorganized, but I dont rlly think our marks suffer cuz of it (if anything, she gives us extra time/extra leniency when something goes wrong on her part). she doesn't care if you hand things in late, and the process writing assignments literally build up to our bigger essays, so everything we work on is helpful. <3

Never understood why people complain so much about this course. Sure, prof is disorganized, but she offers lots of extra credit opportunities, literally does the homework with students after the lecture, and is super nice. All the assignments/ exercise sets built up on each other, easy marks, never took me more than 30 mins to do. Bird course tbh

Interesting course and I learned a lot from this prof. My TA gave detailed feedbacks. Office hours with TAs and Prof are both super helpful-- they basically help you structure! Sometimes going through the lectures, weekly sets, process writings, Quercus posts are a bit tedious, but I mean they are easy marks! Nice and informative prof overall!

I liked her course.