He never explains anything. He insults you in front of the whole class if you don't do well on something. He's rude.

What a jerk (a fitting phrase would be censored). This guy is the worst teacher ever, is rude, has horrible writing and is just plain a jerk.

he is the worst professor EVER. He is like a giant 50 year old wedge rat, but atleast wedge rats are NICE. He ISN'T. If you see him in your class at the beginning of the term, do yourself a favor and turn around and walk right back out of the room.

Servious lectures are very unclear,no body in the class understand a thing he said. I basicly learn cal 2 myself by reading thruough every single page in the book. But his test were pretty easy if you understand the materials.

Horrible.Like all other math teachers at this school,doesn't know how to explain or use logic.prerequisite:calc4 :)Just quickly goes through examples with the word "obviously" understood throughout the explantions."i won't give trick questions on tests",yet nothing on tests are relative to homework.

what a miserable, boring, disgusting class. i learn more by reading the book myself. his tests are on absolutely nothing that was done in class, which is really frustrating because the homeworks that he assigns are all easy.

very booring class, doesnt teach well, test s are hard

just a HORRIBLE professor. RUDE, UNHELPFUL and BORING

Worst teacher ever. I felt like I studied the wrong material when I looked at his tests.

This guy is the worst teacher at wpi. Do not take a class with him ever and if you get stuck with him enjoy doing all your work on your own... he does nothing to help you. Good Luck.

This gut is the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. He goes way too fast through lecture and mubles to himself the entire time. He stands in the way so you can't see wat he is writing. He writes faster than he can talk so there is no way to keep up with him while trying to learn the material at the same time. Don't enroll in his classes!!!

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His lectures do not cover much, and you essentially have to learn the material yourself. The course is not too challenging, but he likes to test you with "True" or "False" questions, and not on actual computations.

Such an awful professor. I've had him twice now, for linear algebra and differential equations. Try to avoid him at all costs.

Worst Professor I've ever had. Definitely one to avoid. Ridicules students for asking questions and constantly makes mistakes.

Servatius was a horrible teacher. First of all his handwriting is awful. I had to sit very close to the front to read it. His quizzes are difficult. The worst part was he would do examples with deliberate mistakes, but not tell us the mistakes so we would learn it wrong then have to relearn it. And he is bad at explaining examples.

Worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Do everything you can to avoid taking his class. Not helpful at all in any way. Quizzes are much more difficult than assigned homework problems. Overall, terrible teacher.

Do not take a class with him. He is not helpful at all. You can ask him questions but he will not give you a useful answer and when prompted for something more helpful he makes no attempt to help. Doesn't respond to emails. If you can't figure the class out on your own or with your TA you will feel pretty hopeless.

Worst math teacher I've ever had in my life. Lectures are useless because he doesn't teach anything useful for the quizzes. He spends all his time proving formula without showing how to apply. Avoid him if you can.

Awful teacher. Avoid at all costs

Grading system is weird. Great lectures but often about things not relevant to what will be asked on quizzes. Quiz questions often have nothing to do with what is talked about in class. Be able to teach yourself.

He spends most of the time explaining proofs on the whiteboard however a good amount of it is illegible. Often makes mistakes that students point out.

Weird grading system. Probably the most confusing lecturer in this school. His lecture is like he brainstorms and talk it out loud, maybe he follows his own logic but extremely hard to follow for students. His handwriting is just illegible.

Set up exactly the same as his undergraduate courses: final exam being 30% of final grade (cumulative of entire semester), and quizzes each week making the other 70% of the grade. Look at past quizzes online to know what to expect for all his tests, no matter what course. Awful at teaching. CS503 still would have been better and probably easier.

Servatius has possibly the worst student communication of any professor I've taken. Homework collection is never made clear (despite it not counting for credit; he uses homework to decide how much to curve up border grades at the end). Quizzes were short, full of trick questions, and involved mind games as to whether you chose to submit them.

He is not a good professor and doesn't care about how much we are struggling in his class he just leaves that part to the TAs and they are actually way more helpful than he is and they should be the professor instead because they can actually explain concepts and answer questions and actually care about the students.

I have never and will never have another professor as bad as Herman Servatious. The thought that he makes a six figure salary as a professor makes me sick. He does not teach things in a way most people can comprehend. He writes tiny and messily and no one can read it. He makes tests of very small quantity worth tons and obscenely difficult.

Over complicates material. Lecture style makes taking notes very difficult.

Just reuses recorded lectures (many of which have mistakes that he doesn't catch, leading to a lot of confusion among students and he never lets us know anywhere about them). Bad at scheduling (has quizzes on days off and doesn't change it until midnight on the quiz day). Not easily reachable, not flexible. He is knowledgeable about the subject

Professor Servatius is very hard to follow and although clearly has a good understanding of the topic material, doesn't do a good job at explaining it

The whole class is graded on 100 points overall. I went to his office hours, told me that I must not be trying hard enough yet I spend 10+ hours a week studying. Doesn't give answers to questions, instead will say things like "This is easy I learned it in third grade you don't need me to tell the answer" to something no one has ever seen before.

The slides are incorrect. makes changes in the slides during the lectures. Like fi your slides before the class please.

Notes are poorly designed. Textbook is a scam and shouldn't be advertised to buy. Gives examples but never the solutions. Exercises are given weekly to be used as practice for the quiz, but the exercise solutions aren't given until after the quiz so how are they supposed to help? Poorest teacher I've had here by far.

Really hard class for no reason. Syllabus is confusing and you are only graded by few things. No homework. Does not explain anything. My grandma was literally dying before the final and he wouldn't let me take it at home so I could go see her. Do not recommend.

horrible. textbook has wrong answers, exercises have wrong answers. tas have no chill taking off points and 90/100 points of the whole class is quizzes. prof is hard to follow, is not helpful, did not even bother to show up for his office hours on the day of the final. if you get a total of 10 points off, youre automatically at a 90. dont take it.

Absolutely awful. Lectures were confusing and poorly explained, and he refused to clarify anything and would point to the textbook when asked. Exercises often had wrong answers, and sometimes remarks instead of answers stating that if you got it wrong it was your fault. TAs weren't much help either, didn't seem confident in the course material.

Doesn't care about students

Herman Servatius is clearly intelligent. This, unfortunately, manifests as a boiling witch's cauldron of laziness, lack of clarity, overestimation, and terrible accommodation. He is a poor professor that cannot share the meaning of Discrete Mathematics with his students and commonly writes wrong answers. Self-study or take it with someone else.

The professor is very clearly knowledgeable of the subject matter taught. HOWEVER, don't be fooled because the way he teaches lectures is horrendous. There is no clear line of reasoning as he writes jumbled material on the board. He constantly writes a ton of material on the board with no organization. If you can, skip this class.