This was the most confusing and worthless class i have ever taken at USU. The lectures were to complex and did nothing to prepare you for the test. he did give a nice test prep that shows everything on the test, but not much help was given with it.

This class was easily the worst class I have taken at USU. He is a terrible professor. He teaches you close to nothing, and if you want to do well you have to teach yourself. Also, he's not willing to work with you at all. He refused to meet with me outside of office hours. Tests are awful, and partial credit is not given. Worst professor I've had!

Worst professor ever! i love math, but he has made me hate it now. His tests are way way hard, i went to the math tutors and they didn't even know how to do some of the questions he gave us on the study guide. Tried to turn in extra credit and he said it wasn't unique enough. When the whole class failed the test he still wouldn't give a curve.

Heavlin teaches math like it's a philosophy and expects you to know a lot more than you should going into the class. Doesn't give a straightforward answer. Exams are impossible. Avoid him like leprosy. Find another teacher.

Had some good lectures, he is very entertaining. However, he's really smart (obviously, at least at math) and expects everyone to be at the same level. I never felt like he cared much about our success as students; no partial credit, you have to work hard and long if you want a good grade.

I wish I hadnt taken this class from Heavilin. It ruined my 4.0 gpa and I didnt learn a thing. He may be entertaining at first but the lectures didnt match the homework or the tests. He also has a really large ego and this class caused several breakdowns throughout the semester. Will not recommend this professor to anyone.

Justin Heavilin at first comes across as a good professor. There's a heavy homework load, but he assures you that everything will be alright. However, as the semester goes on, it becomes clear he doesn't care about those that struggle, as we were frequently rebuked for not being smart. He's unorganized, but holds us responsible for his mistakes.

doesn't care about students. multiple choice quizzes simply have wrong answers. He is unorganized, makes mistakes, blames canvas, but doesn't account for any of it. It is up to you to make up the difference. Blows off concerns After the final, I was passing the class. When it went on my transcript, I failed. When I emailed, no answer.

THE WORST. His lectures were more of a show than anything else. His ego gets in the way of learning the material, and I consistently left lecture with more questions than answers. He had the WORST exams. Wrong answers, questions w/ typos, etc. I'm a math major, 4.0 student, got an A, and can say that he's the worst professor I've ever had.

Sometimes, I don't hate him for trying to get us killed during the "active shooter" code blue. Maybe he was actually just trying to do us a service by ending our suffering from his awful class. Bit of an extreme decision on his part... next time he should just try providing his students with resources and feed back so they can actually learn.

Dr. Heavilin has typos on his quizzes (frequently rendering his answers wrong or problems unsolvable), but he refuses to open the quizzes to student scrutiny so we can correct it. If they're brought to his attention, he says "don't worry, I adjust quiz scores," but adjustments seem more random than accurate. Doesn't care about students.

No idea where the positive reviews are coming from (maybe he's pulling a Kevin Durant?) A teacher's core job is to help students understand material; instead Heavilin helps you understand why he is a veritable math god by teaching at a level that doesn't actually help students learn, but inflates his sense of self instead. Pompous egotist.

See, here you are, looking at "Rate my Professor" wondering if this professor is worth your while and your tuition. Its not in the slightest. Do yourself a favor, for the sake of your GPA and wallet, don't take Heavilin. I am certain that this is the worst three credits anybody in the United States can have the opportunity to take. You're warned.

Tends to waste lectures on material that is not relevant to the exams. Expect him to go off on a tangent. Does not want students to know what they got right or wrong on tests. The worst Professor I have ever had.

He loves to just go over esoteric theory in lecture, give somewhat easy homework, and then make up the hardest questions he can for the quizzes and tests. Avoid this guy.

Heavilin does not care about individual students. He is lazy, and relies on his TA's to teach. He is a poor lecturer and cannot convey mathematical information to save his life. He wastes time trying to fit tons of information into 50 min lectures. He avoids answering questions. He thinks it is funny that he is known as a notoriously bad teacher.

Dr Heavilin is by far the worst mathematics professor I've ever had. Makes fun of students with questions, wastes time on long-winded proofs of simple concepts, ignores hard parts in lectures but puts them on the quiz. Horrible teacher.

Professor Heavilin does not care about his students. I sent him 9 emails throughout the semester. He only replied to 2 with terribly unhelpful answers. His lack of availability is unacceptable for an online class. Lectures were hard to follow and sometimes he "didn't get around" to recording lectures so we had to rely on recitations and essays.

So I took this class during Fall 2020 during Covid-19 so the course was mostly online. The TA I had was awesome she was the reason I managed to pass the class. As for Dr. Heavilin, the homework assignments are very tricky and he tries to confuse you. You don't have tests but you have sorta quizzes where you get 2 attempts usually but are very hard.

Justin Heavilin is extremely unprofessional. I took him online and the whole course is just watching videos of an MIT professor instead of him, and he has his own videos where he rambles and gets off topic and theorizes. Doesn't provide adequate example problems. His course is setup in an extremely stressful way. Avoid him at all costs.

Dr. Heavilin picks and chooses which emails to respond to and when. He doesn't work with concerned students. His current HW policy is both unfair and needs to be revised (you can only miss 1 point on each HW to UNLOCK the next one) Don't understand one concept? Say goodbye to your GPA. This man is smart, but needs to see eye to eye with students.

The environment that Dr. Heavilin creates in his classroom is not one of compassion. I went to his office hours the first week with a few questions and was told that if I didn't already understand the things I had questions about I needed to change my major. I also sent over 25 emails and got responses back for 3 of them.

I have had Dr. Heavilin two semesters in a row now and I hope I never have to take a course from him again. The courses have been online but half the time he does not even post lectures for the homework assignments. Most of the homework assignments either have typos or just straight up wrong answers. He rarely responds to emails as well.

If you think you can succeed by relying solely on Dr. Heavilin or the recitation instructors for effective teaching and help, good luck with that. The provided notes are often cryptic or incomplete. You will be writing weekly essays as well. If you want to succeed in this class, you will have to already Discrete math beforehand.

The notes for this class were okay for the first little while of the class, then there were just no videos to explain what was going on. There were papers due every week. His HW policy is trash, he claims that when canvas makes an error its not the students fault, but when it happens to me it was my fault that it didnt work.

All of the homework problems were wrong and the emphasis on tests is way too high. Blistering course pace as if the material wasn't already hard. Lecture and recitation spend all of the time deriving formulas and explaining the math, leaving you helpless on the large amount of homework due.

Lectures are pointless and don't cover needed material. Tests are extremely difficult.

Dr Heavilin is very knowledgeable about mathematics. Although, he doesnt know how to teach that to a student. His lectures are interesting if you love proofs, if you want to learn how to do the problems he quizzes on youre on your own. His homework has has a lot of errors without showing the correct answer. Very difficult to learn from mistakes.

Worst experience Ive had in a math class during college so far. Dr. Heavilin rambles and goes on tangents during lectures making it hard to follow him. Oh btw there is 9 exams in the class which account for a total of 90% of your grade. The class is set up so you really wont remember anything if you are trying to pass.

I wouldn't wish Heavilin on my worst enemy. If you have any other options, take them. The homework had more uncorrected mistakes than correct answers, so you cant rely on that for practice. The applications are the same. If you take a class from Heavilin, be prepared to be your own professor bc he certainly isn't one, nor will he ever email back.

To understand the lectures you need to read the book and do your homework before class, which is very backwards. What angered me most is the homework was often bugged, so you never knew if you did it wrong or if the problem was messed up. Worst thing was he added a question onto one of the applications the night it was due without even notifying us

Just dont take any of his classes. Trust.

Doctor Heavilin is the Grinch who stole my scholarship. Needed a 3.5 gpa and he doesnt give a minuses or b pluses so the last week of the semester my grade dropped from an a to a b. Hes horrible at explaining the material as well. I didnt learn a thing from him, only from the tutoring center. Avoid at all costs.

6 non cumulative test based on hw given 2-3 times a week. His homework is flawed way to often. He give out extra credit if you find them and punished if you can't. His lectures tend to be quite esoteric in nature. Is quite a poor teacher, he knows his stuff but doesn't know how to teach it. The book gives examples but they are to generic.

Rude and impatient

Teaches without shoes or any desire to educate. Instead of fixing his bugged homework he sits in his rocking chair thinking of the medieval torture method to use for the next lecture.The speed of the chapters is almost as fast as my will to live is disappearing.10/10 would rather walk on Legos barefoot than have to see this barefoot buffoon again.

Professor Heavilin spends hours on a proof and then tell you the formula or equation you need and won't explain how to use it on homework or tests, the textbook gives more help than he does. His homework has countless errors so you can't tell if you do anything correct. I went to take the final on the first day of finals, the test was locked.

The worst professor, he does not explain how to do the homeworks and expects us to be able to use the textbook that is beyond confusing. His lectures are completely useless, the recitation is slightly helpful but my TA was unable to solve most of his problems in the homework. When I went to him to ask for help his response was tough luck.

His lectures are awful more often than not he would not teach you how to do the math or homework. The structure of the class is nice, with unlimited attempts on homework, and two attempts on tests except the final. To pass his class I would recommend skipping the lectures, reading the textbook, and attending the recitation.

Heavilin is lazy and unempathetic. Homework has frequent mistakes. Until taking this class, the worst grade I had ever gotten on any math test was an 87 percent. My test average in this class is 61 percent. Tests have wildly unreasonable numbers and no calculators. I had to cube 24 once by hand, unavoidably. Not cool.

Dr. Heavilin assigns an unbelievable amount of homework and doesn't actually lecture on anything that is on the homework or tests.

Terrible materials, be prepared to self teach

Math was enjoyable untill I took this class

If you take ANY of his classes be prepared to attend every recitation and be in the textbooks for notes. The exams don't allow calculators, but you are allowed 2 attempts. This professor only writes on the whiteboard and it's often just rambling. Go for any other math teacher.

Worst professor I've had in college. He gives hard tests and gives questions that he's never discussed in class. If I can help it, I will never take a class from him again

Dont do it guys. This is your warning. I have always been ahead in math. Always. His lectures are based on the conceptual theories around multivariable calculus. However the homework and tests are straight math. Also, the tests are with 80% of your grade. If you want your gpa to survive, please, take Calc 3 from literally anyone else!!!!!

DONT take Heavilin for Calc 3. His class is of 80% tests, and the tests are DIFFICULT; he gives you two hours to complete 32 questions. All he teaches are concepts, so his lectures do NOT help with the homework. I was less confused when I didn't show up to class. I had to teach myself this entire semester by going to the AMLC and using ChatGPT.

He won't let you look at tests AFTER they have closed to see what you got wrong. Preaches learning and not to look at grades, but then wont let you look at what you did wrong. Makes fun of students when they ask questions. Take ANY other teacher, please, I beg you.

His lectures are difficult to follow and the tests are worth so much of your grade. I also wish he let us use a calculator. If you want to think hard, take his class, if you want to pass the class, don't take his class.

Heavilin goes through material very quickly in lectures. He only offers one hour of office hours a week, so I had to rely on the Aggie Math Learning Center, recitations, and review nights to study. Exams are heavily weighted and include conceptual questions you can't really prepare for. Be ready to teach yourself a lot.

This professor likes to spend every in class lecture teaching about material that is not on the homework or the exams. You will have to teach yourself the material for the homework. Do yourself a favor and don't take any classes from him. Only positive to this class is every once in a while the professor might say something that causes you to smirk

His tests are very unfair and unnecessarily difficult. You will spend all your time studying how to do well on his test rather than the actual material.

Heavilin fails to teach in a manner that is understandable. When I heard of a new mathematical concept, it was, at times, abstract -- then, Heavilin would explain and it became impossible to understand. I have found that lecture time is better spent in the library. He has been notorious for years, suffering through his classes is a rite of passage.

Heavilin is an abomination to the math program. Every math professor I have ever had at Utah State was incredible; however, he is the exception. His exams are a timed trial that in no way reflect your knowledge of the course. The exam averages for both my classes with him have NEVER exceeded a failing grade. Bad teacher. Shouldn't have a job.

After taking Calculus three and Linear Differential Equations from this Professor I can confidently say that this is the worst math professor I have had in my entire education. Exams are not realistic to what is taught on homework and it is nearly impossible to finish every question in the short time that is assigned during class.

Had Heavilin for Calc III. Tests are unreasonably hard, mainly for the time constraint. Normally a teacher TEACHES you, but he will yap for an hour about random stuff and then give you an MCAT equivalent exam. This is probably why he is just considered a "Senior Lecturer" and not a professor, because he has no business teaching this course, or any.

This class was one of the hardest I have taken. The lectures are a stream of consciousness that's hard to follow, and you need to do a lot of extra work outside class to understand the material/pass the tests because the test material is not really taught in class. The TA said that he was teaching Calc 2 and 3 concepts even though it was Calc 1.

If you want to hate you life for the next 15 weeks, take Dr. Heavlin. He doesn't teach any of the exam material, rather he focuses on theory and other topics irrelevant to the course. In-class assignments are heavily weighted and nearly impossible to understand. I quit looking both ways before crossing the street on my way to his class.

Dr. Heavilin has been the worst professor I've had. I took him for Calc 3 and Linear Diff. He assigns huge amounts of homework but doesn't show how to do it, focusing only on theory. Exams are random homework problems: 3 tests, 45 minutes, 30% each. The class feels set up for failure and destroyed my confidence in math.

Hard subject. Lectures are not mandatory when I took it, but he was talking about changing that. Tips to pass the class: -AMLC help and go to the TA office hours -Look through the book for bold and boxed equations -do homework religiously -memorize the little tricks he mentions in class