Very confusing!!

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Exam from hell...beware children

His exams are impossible and assoholic

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What the hell are you talking about? Lectures -good...are you him or something?

It owuld help if you didn't speak in monotone, for starters.

This is such a terribly boring course, if it wasnt mandatory I would have dropped it. It is such a waste of time. The prof is dull and puts you to sleep and the notes explain nothing! The labs are even more useless.

I found Prof Aarsen unapproachable, full of himself and downright rude. His courses are dull and he has little concern for students. I will avoid any further courses taught by him at all costs.

This class is a joke and a waste of time. Aarson just rambles on and on with no evidence. It should be in the arts department, this is not science!!

Terrible. Just terrible. It's almost like he doesn't want his students to do well. He is very rigid in his opinions, and a lot of the content of this course was very one-sided from his perspective. Went to ask him a question, incredibly rude.

One of the most laidback course I've ever taken at Queen's. Used the lectures to nap between 2-engineering classes (and got my friend to use my iClicker for me). Spent maybe 4 hours total doing work for the class (quizzes and discussion posts), spent about 4 hours studying for the final. Final was pure memorization.

The worst professor I have ever encountered. Very condescending and teaches you his own opinions rather than actual facts. Also a very rude person who is unsympathetic to student's needs.

Literally the worst. I don't have anymore more to say.

First time course offered online. Stupid group projects can hurt your mark. Can prepare your final exam answers ahead and I spent days studying and preparing excellent answers. But marking rubric is so ridiculous that what should have been an easy A+ for me did not turn out this way. Loved actual course material. But stay away from this prof!

The most non-compassionate and unsympathetic professor I've ever had at Queen's.

Rudest Prof I've ever had at this University. His grading scheme for the final exam is absolutely ridiculous. All through the year he says ' don't worry too much about specific details, as long as you pay attention in class you're fine', but then his grading scheme for exam has the most specific things on it such as the exact percentage..

Professor Aarrsen teaches some important material without a doubt. Which is what makes his absolute failure to communicate respectfully to his students and address questions so surprising. There's a difference between just being a "tough prof" and failing to meet the standards of being a professor at an institution like Queen's.

He was inconsiderate and lacked compassion for students. While most courses made helpful changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, he made few adjustments and lacked communication. We knew nothing about our exam format until one week prior and other details until the day of. He was also often unhelpful and unaccommodating to students' questions.

Dr. Aarssen is unaccommodating and has no compassion for his students. He ignored questions from students in the discussion forum that he did not want to answer and made our exam much harder than in previous years since we were writing it online during the pandemic. Do not expect to get any helpful feedback from the teaching staff in this course.

I enjoyed the assignments and the class leading up to the final - I hadn't gotten a mark below an A. I prepared extremely hard for the exam using the literal questions he provided us in guides ahead of time, and somehow got a C+. He doesn't answer questions and doesn't care about students.

Not available outside class, horrible communicator, and marks VERY unfairly. Would not reccommend this class.

-exam info given one week before the date -answering questions with verbatim course content resulted in a C -ignoring student emails all semester -not answering content questions in forum -ignoring emails requesting to see marking rubric and graded final -outdated course content in a course where time is a major theme -disregard for students

BIOL 350 was an absolute gong show. The professor was very difficult to reach through email and unaccommodating during the pandemic. I really questioned some of his course content, as it was heavily skewed towards his personal opinions and backed by very few academically credible sources. Who at Queen's approved this class?

After finishing my degree at Queens I can safely say this was the worst prof I've ever had. His lack of compassion is clear when responding to students online during this pandemic. The exam is the worst, even if you think you answered every question right you'll still get an awful mark. The course content is also outdated and boring.

I had an A+ going into exam and studied very hard, but ended up with a D. I emailed to ask him for feedback and he was extremely dismissive and rude, refusing to give me any reason for the grade. I had to appeal his decision and was told that so many people are appealing that they refunded my money. Worst experience with a prof at Queens.

The most condescending and uncaring professor I've ever had the displeasure to know. When asked questions about assessments or the course, would reply by asking students to refer to the instructions, as if the students would not know to do that beforehand.

When I requested to review my exam, Lonnie failed to respond. 9 months later, I received an email from Lonnie stating that he might be able to squeeze in a meeting in a month or two. Things you can expect to happen more quickly than a Lonnie email response include carrying a pregnancy to term or building a house. Wouldn't survive outside academia.

Absolutely, by far, the least caring prof I have ever had. He does the very bare minimum for this course. Furthermore, he cherry picks statistics to support his views, then tests us on his opinion on very complex and nuanced topics. Does not take into consideration anything the students think.

I requested a regrade, and the professor said everyone got 20 extra points due to TA errors. After the regrade, he admitted I did better but refused to adjust my grade since the improvement was under the "20-point error space." He was dismissive and rude, saying, "TAs are human," and claimed he didn't keep track of my new score and shut down convo

Guy thinks he is a genius, if you want to stroke his ego have at it. Waste of time here.

Just very unkind and self absorbed.

Rude and really boring.

Don't understand how this guy has spent so much of his life developing into such a boring, inconsiderate, waste of time. Do not take this course.