Don't take statistics with Kevin Packard. Go with the other professor. Lecture notes are a bit hard to follow, his handwriting is hard to read, and he talks about formulas that are never needed. You never feel ready for the tests. Ever. If you want a B- or B, take this class. If you want an A or A+, take the other professor.

DO NOT take ILRST2100 with Packard. He cares little about the well-being of his students and made the class unnecessarily hard. The other professor is much better, and her class average was an A, while ours was a C. His tests were impossible and his office hours didn't help at all. If you value your GPA and mental health, avoid at all costs.

RUN. His first semester teaching this course, and when talking to friends who took it with the other prof they are horrified by the difficulty of what we are doing. Majority of the class is hopelessly lost. Did not provide enough practice materials like a practice exam for the midterm. People keep dropping.

I dropped this class if you don't love calculus then avoid this class if you are ILR

Kevin cares for his students, but is an awful professor. He is overly wordy with is explanations and is helplessly unclear. I took this class in S21 and learnt nothing from the live lectures because he is very hard to follow. I sat in the class lost every Mon&Wed, was lost doing the homeworks and failed weekly quizzes regularly. DO NOT TAKE W HIM.

Seems like a decent guy but the difficulty of the class is way above what it should be. The pre-req was basic calc and he goes into double integration which I did not even know existed. There is also only 2 tests, so if you botch one good luck.

Every time I join the Zoom lecture I feel genuine anger and frustration in my body. This class literally needs a trigger warning. It's currently the second to last week of school and I am considering dropping this class rn and taking it again next semester with a different prof because I have genuinely learnt nothing. RUN!!!

I wish they would've just not offered ECON 3110 in SP21 rather than make students take it with Kevin teaching it for the first time. It's a core requirement for the Econ major, and I am now genuinely concerned about my cohesive knowledge for the major on a whole because this class was so poorly taught. Do not take with him. Do yourself a favor.

Packard is a really nice guy, but I have never been so lost in a class before. It's impossible to follow his lectures (especially since he insists on projecting himself writing over Zoom instead of using slides...) I'm genuinely terrified for the final, especially since statistics doesn't come easily to me :/

Doesn't do the bare minimum to help us out during the covid semester, when cornell was telling all the professors to go easy. we ask for a practice prelim, he's too lazy to make one and just says he doesn't have any since it's his first time teaching 3110. we ask for quizzes to be easier, he says his definition of easy is different from ours. run.

Probably one of the worst taught classes I've had to sit through. Nearly everyone in the class is lost and confused to some degree and there are not enough materials given to know what to expect on reading quizzes or exams. Most people in the class are struggling. If you can, take this class with a professor who actually knows what they're doing.

Our final's in 1.5 hrs and we're all scared. Packard rambles on about stuff we don't need to know for this course and obviously runs out of time to cover what we actually do need to know. He was behind on lectures from the start but his solution was to just teach the content at an insanely fast pace. Definitely not enough practice for the exams.

Nice person, terrible professor for online classes. Lectures were hard to follow, completed notes not posted, included content outside of course scope.

I regret dropping this class with every fibre of my being. In a semester in which multiple of our peers passed away, he was so not accommodating, not flexible, not responsive to feedback. The class asked for a practice prelim or more guidance with review and he couldnt do that for literally no reason. Avoid him.

This class made me reconsider majoring in economics because he taught the content so poorly I didnt think Id survive the rest of the major if I had to understand the course content. Turns out my friends in other upper level Econ classes say you need to know NONE of this and the other professor did not even dip into this level or difficulty. RUNNN

Nice guy, terrible professor. I legitimately feel cheated when people tell me ECON 3110 is an 'easy' class but never had to take it with Packard. Let's just say there's a reason he doesn't have a single good review for ECON 3110!

Avoid Packard and take Econ 3110 with DiCiccio. I dropped Packard's class in the spring and am taking it with DiCiccio now and the difference is night and day. Best decision I've made at Cornell. Packard honestly seems like a nice person but made the class way more confusing and difficult than it needed to be. Just go with DiCiccio.

tagged as "hilarious" because it's hilarious how awful this class is. If you're in ILR or looking to fulfill a stats requirement, DO NOT TAKE ILRST 2100 with Kevin Packard. weekly homework assignments that are never-ending (returned a month late no less!) half the TAs don't know what they're talking about. By far the most bothersome class of my sem

Do NOT Take ILRST 2100 with Packard. Packard is a kind person, but is a terrible lecturer. He talks way too fast in lectures and he over complicates literally everything. Everyone I would talk to after class, including myself, always said they had no idea what was going on, and this is an intro stats class. Its not supposed to be this confusing.

Homework is a few hours each week past the first month. Topics not well explained, but exams are pretty straight forward based off the practice exam. Overall, not a super tough class but a professor who means well but falls short.

A kind person does not equate to a good lecturer. Packard is horrible at explaining stats to beginners; he talks WAY TOO FAST (not exaggerated) and has SO MUCH HOMEWORK and Quizzes. I spent more than 10 hours just for this class. Good luck if you are stuck with him. LSC will be your best friend :)(

Kevin Packard made me dread coming to class everyday. What should be an easy class was made purposefully difficult but him. He seems to enjoy our misery and outright hopes we do poorly. Do not reccomend

Cannot explain how horrible a professor he is. Made this class hard on purpose. Wants you to fail

Teaching is nothing short of confusing. He will ramble for 45+ minutes on end about material without explaining why it is important to understand. Prelim/Final review material does not reflect the actual exam. Late on uploading review content, so you can't even study efficiently. When I asked when he'd upload review material, he just shrugged.

Every lecture someone has to ask him to slow down because he runs through concepts at 3x speed. My TAs are the only reason I'm able to pass this course. Kind person, awful professor. Considerate of my feelings -- Yes, but not enough to adjust the course material to make it more understandable for his students. I wish I dropped this course.

As a person, he's great, but as a professor, he really lacked the proper skills to teach this class. This is known for being one of the easiest statistics classes at Cornell, yet he couldn't have made it more complicated. Homework was multiple times a week and took forever, he also took attendance the tuesday before thanksgiving on purpose.

He is awful. 3 homework assignments a week, will take hours. Hard tests that are never anything like the practice. If you do well he will not give you as much partial credit as the previous tests because he wants you to fail. Lectures are lengthy, confusing, and awful. Not accessible, TAs are useless. Screw you Packard you made me hate stats.

Tedious homeworks, Boring lectures, tests that are in no way the same as the review material. This is a historically easy class, he made it the exact opposite.

Awful, and often rambling. Long homework that try to trick you + quiz on the weekend. Difficult, lengthy tests that are not like the practice. Seems nice on surface, but is actually mean and very distrusting of students.

Made ILR stats go from one of the easiest classes at Cornell to a hard class. His lecture notes are very vague, he rambles during lectures and overcomplicates everything. Tests are much more difficult than what he presents in class. Barely any study materials offered other than his surface level notes that barely cover everything you need to know.

Horrible prof. Makes exams extremely difficult and is very nitpicky over content that is barely covered in lectures. Incredibly rude to students. His notes are terribly disorganized and even his TAs disagree with his methods. Try arguing for points back on your exam and he won't give you anything, even when the TAs tell you you deserved them.

I wish I could go back and not take this class. I have never been a part of a class where I feel like a professor is literally out to get me and doesn't want me to succeed until I took this class. Confusing lectures, odd grading criteria, and awful exams. Beware.

Packard's lectures are very confusing and he moves way to fast through the material. After the first month, I became lost and found it hard to get back on track. TAs were not helpful either.

This class made me question every choice I have ever made. Someone got up and left the room on the first day. I should have done the same.

packard is an embarrassment to cornell and ilr. he is a terrible professor, makes students uncomfortable and unwilling to go to office hours, and is condescending when students ask questions. avoid him at all costs, it's worth jumping through hoops to not be in his class.

Professor Packard is not a nice person and is generally a very bad lecturer. He expects you to memorize everything he said in lecture, even if it was just briefly mentioned in passing, and is very passive aggressive to students for no reason. His lecturing style is also not great to follow, so usually the textbook is more helpful.

He is a very nice teacher and is also understanding during office hours. However, this class is beyond impossible. The material is way too much, goes too fast, and nothing makes sense. I got lost after a month into the class. Packard should not be teaching undergraduate students and instead teach PhD students. Not sure what the curve will look like

Professor Packard is the worst professor I have had at Cornell. He overcomplicates content to the extreme. He did not have a single review session all semester before the prelim or final (despite promising one). Exam content is not at all similar to homework or class material. The median on the final was a 58% for context. Avoid at all costs.

Very nice guy, probably acoustic. hosted 0 review sessions, tests nothing like hw no way to practice. TA is useless/ notunderstandable. Unless you are a math/quantitative leaning Econ/Math/Stats/Eng major, you will slog in this class, and even then it will be a struggle. U need well above average math intuition to comfotably get A-/A

Without a doubt the worse professor for econ stats. This guy is literally out to get you. Doesn't post lecture notes, overcomplicates simple concepts. Exams are way harder than homeworks and completely different from the practice exam. Overall, if you're an econ major, try to take 3110 with Diccicio! Don't make the same mistake as me.

This man is utterly awful. The class average for the prelim was a 58% and has been for years. I talked to my friends last year, their class average was in the low 50s. Instead of changing his exams, teaching methodology, or grading - Packard allows students to continuously struggle and fend for themselves. Take a diff ILR stats path & save your GPA

Worst professor ever at Cornell, do not take unless you want to be confused the entire time. Failling grades throughout the whole semester, everyone was lost. Would go to office hours and he would continuously state "this class is supposed to be hard" don't expect things to be easy. Attendance was randomly taken at different points, not fair.

Just took the final. Im so cooked. Bro puts stuff on the test that he mentioned for one nanosecond in class. Super advanced math knowledge required, way more than Calc 1 as the course reccomends.

No review sessions, learning content the week of the test, material that has been mentioned briefly being tested, this class has it all. Although I enjoy the content of the course, it took a lot of effort and studying in order to make sense of what was going on during lectures and overall not a good experience in general.

exams were not reflective of past prelims or homeworks. literally cannot understand what is going on every single class as he speaks so fast and rambles. need to spend lots of time understanding material outside of class.

Like what other comments said, the professor tends to ramble during lectures, and then the tests end up focusing on things that don't feel like the main point of the course. There are no review sessions or after-class notes, so it's hard to keep up or know what to focus on.

Between the quizzes that are based on readings that test niche details, the lecture notes that aren't posted, and the exams that aren't reflective of homeworks quizzes or readings, avoid him at all costs. As other people have said, it feels like he is intentionally out to get you. As a mechanical engineer, this class is bringing down my gpa…

Lectures are overcomplicated making content way harder than it should be. TA's are undergrads that are also lost. For this class get ready to fend for yourself and use a useless software that makes the class all the more annoying. I enjoyed statistics before this class and now I just don't.

Listening to a lecture is just a string of jokes and half-explanations of actual material. Less comedy, more teaching

very very bad