he thinks he is teaching Ph.D students in MIT. this is the last time i'm taking physics class with him. too much work for a simple course. i could get an A grade with another teacher but knowi must look forward for a C or something worse. this course grade gonna drop my 3.9 GPA to 3.0

This teacher is INCREDIBLY tough, probably the toughest teacher on campus! No one scores about the 60s on his tests, and the average grade is a D+!

This teacher is a total jerk! He says he writes in clear English but the questions on his tests no one understands. Everyone struggles in his class, even if they are an expert in Physics.

This class is not well organized. It seems to be more concerned with "group dynamics" than with learning physics. I may not stay in this class. It is too hard trying to get the lazy people in my group to do the simple HW problems - prof won't let the rest of the group just do the work the lazy ones are not doing, so our group work is incomplete.

One of the worst classes you will ever have, if you are taking an intro to physics class DO NOT TAKE IT WITH THIS PROF. The amount of work you do is not worth it, he DOES NOT know how to teach in any sort of way. If you care about your grade dont take him ever! One of the worst careless profs i have ever seen.

Professor Hobbs is a really nice guy and really seems to enjoy physics, however he is so excited about it he doesn't teach it very well. His lectures don't follow the book or pertain to the investigations he assigns. It's painful watching him try to explain things and watching everyone just get more and more confused. His website is awful.

Although Mr Hobbs seems to a nice man, he is not a teacher of much. He tries to get a class average on his tests at 60% and does this with trick questions and wasted time. If you can avoid this class... do so.

Mr. hobbs is a nice person but he is not helpful in class and never hands back assingments.He posts things the day before they are due and expects groups to have had ample time to get them done. He assignes three investigations the week before the finals. He has to many toys so watch out. He is late to class and keeps the class past class time.

Terrible! The class meets only 3 times a week He never does practice problems He makes us have group investigations every week and its difficult to meet with members and do group lab work every week OUTSIDE OF CLASS He never goes over homework practice problems or hand back any labs or homework His test have nothing to do with his lectures

The worst teacher i have ever seen.Do not take any class with him.

Homework is on topics he never discusses. I wasn't aware I paid for a class that would be 90% self taught.

he is a nice guy but do not take this class you will learn nothing and feel like you did so much busy work!!!

First off, Hobbs is a nice man who is great one on one. That is where the good ends. This is by far the most stressful course I have ever taken. The workload is insane (10-20 assignments due each week), his tests are difficult (no curve, average 50%), and his lectures/class time are poorly used. I cannot recommend anyonbody take this prof.

Horrible. He expects you to be a physicist in a 100 class. He isn't organized. I am only 3 weeks into this quarter and he already assigned 6 things due for one day. Prior to that he had 4 things due, in which 2 he didn't even remember assigning. He then said the assignment was done wrong, even though it clearly stated the instructions. Don't bother

Taught myself. Wasted my money. There's a difference in teaching students and getting the concepts to stick with them versus expecting a 0hysics class for ENGINEERS to be conceptual physicists. He tests you on things he hasnt taught yet, because he is slow at teaching. Yet wants you to read the next chapter.

Doesn't keep track of his own class assignments, and it is too hard for students to keep track of. Since the dates are all messed up on HIS OWN CUSTOM website. He doesn't utilize Canvas. If he does, it's for reading quizzes that he doesn't even post but expects you to do?? The amount of work he expects is outrageous.

If you are out to learn Hobbs is a great teacher, but for a score he simply doesn't communicate enough to match the level of difficulty. He is the only prof at BC iv'e had that doesn't post your grade on canvas, instead waiting to the end of the quarter for your score. This combined with the prof never communicating makes this a bad experience.

Doesn't use canvas like most professors at the college. Instead uses his own website which is difficult to navigate. Based on the website alone, I often had no ideas when assignments were due. The workload is insane and the information is often redundant.

worst professor I've ever had. Incredibly unorganized and uses his own website instead of canvas which is a giant mess and he randomly updates it whenever he wants. It's full of broken links and impossible to know when things are due. He assigns 4-8 homework assignments every week on top of weekly quizes and formal labs. DO NOT TAKE!

Please, for the sake of your sanity, don't take Hobbs. Never in my life have I struggled so hard in a class. I physically do not understand anything he says, he is all over the place. You won't know if you're failing until final grades get pulled. Does not answer emails. Very egotistical. He thinks class averaging 60% on tests is normal. Just no.

After taking this course I feel like I have learned nothing. His class time he spends rambling on and goes overtime frequently. The way that he explains assignments is long winded and all over the place, it's on canvas and his other website. He set up group projects with groups that often cannot find a meeting time. Overall, it is very scattered.

Horrible course. Very unorganized, blames students / his other courses and rarely takes responsibility for his own faults. Doesn't put anything into gradebook so you have no idea where you stand in the class. No study guides, class lectures are rarely useful for exams. Uses his own website which is hard to navigate over canvas. Condescending.

This instructor was horribly unprepared. Rarely returns Grades. Has unreasonable and unrealistic expectations. Assignments are thrown together. Exams barely resemble assignments and in class work. Hasn't taught a class since 2014. Barely uses Canvas. Uses a book to "Teach" but no points help. Be ready to pray you passed this terrible class. BAD.

RUN! You will regret taking a class with him. Your grade will regret it too. The first test scores had a median grade of 32/100, high was 50/100, low was 8/100. The students in this class are trying to get into some highly competitive science programs, 4.0 type-A students here. People are writing letters to the dean. Could write A LOT more. RUN!

He’s a good human being but this man cannot teach. He’s intelligent, it’s clear that he is but again he CANNOT teach. He is unprepared for class. Does not grade hw and won’t give it back. Doesn’t use canvas so you never know what your grade is. Test are extremely hard. Hard grader. My entire class failed the first exam. Do not take him.

Poorly prepared to teach. Wrote own lab manual and notebook =[. Gives absolutely no support for homework, lecture does not cover homework in any way. NO technology skills. Doesn't use Canvas- made his own website that took over 1 hour of lecture over 2-3 days explaining how to use. Long useless tangents in lecture. 2/3 students dropped. Is rude.

He uses his own website so you don't know where to find your homework because it isn't laid out well. He puts you in front of the class and doesn't care if you are scared he will blame you. This guy was so hard that I had to drop my other courses just to do this guy's work, and those were an easy course that was going to help me graduate.

This guy is bad at homework. He uses his own website, and require you to look for the HW there, and there are a lot of exam and labs(which are almost every day) and you can't miss any. He upload hw at the last minute, I remember doing 6 pages of hw, and refreshing another additional 4 assignments that were due the next day.

Going to his office hours would be helpful if he wouldn't rant for hours while in them. He's a really smart guy, genuinely, but he cares more about creating these "perfect" physicists rather than his student's success which makes him a genius scientist, but not a very good teacher. Imagine the worst workload ever, times it by 30. Save yourself.

Please do not take him. He uses his own grading system instead of canvas and doesn't give you your grade until the last day of the quarter, when it's too late to do anything about it. You're paying tuition to be blue balled for 3 months straight. Homework instructions make no sense. Class made me feel like I had the mental aptitude of Joe Biden.

Don't take this class. last week of the quarter and he still hasn't posted grades. he assigns mandatory groups to do every assignment with. my entire group dropped the class after the first test, so I do all group projects on my own, even after asking to be put in another group. also makes rules without telling anyone and expects people to know.

Do not recommend taking this class at all, overload of HW with no feedback if what you're doing is even right at all. Low grades on the first test and nobody and I mean absolutely no one passed, the exam had nothing to do with what we learned and somehow had the audacity to blame us for failing. If you are a beginner, do not take this teacher.

Don't take this class. The class is incredibly slow moving and low level. This would be fine, but the professor doesn't treat this class as being low level at all. The tests are so heavily scrutinized that absolutely no one passed, and the highest grade was a 50/100. The class is extremely confusingly set up, and the teacher doesn't use canvas.

He's a nice guy, but this class is absolutely terrible. Tests are insanely hard (average ~50/100), and homework and labs are vague and confusing. The workload is way too heavy—expect to sacrifice weekends and holidays. I had 4 classes and I spent more than half of my time in this. I got A's in all my other classes but am only hoping for a B+ here.

Unfathomable amount of work, only take this class if you want to suffer. The class did not pass the first test, the highest was an F, I managed to escape the class last minute. Do not take this class by ANY means, it'll blow your GPA to smithereens.

Highest grade on the first test was 50%. The class is structured in such a way that you cannot prepare. Prof was surprised by what had happened, but reading the reviews here this is clearly not the first time. Two hour classes could have been covered in 20 minutes. Also he makes you buy his textbook and workbook that he wrote in 1999 for $60.

Unnecessary use of class time, doesn't explain very well. Lack of structure. Most common score was for exam 1 was 19% ish. Teacher provided no study guide, no one knew what the answers were supposed to look like. Asked students for feedback then rejected everything they said. If you take this class your GPA will drop and you'll be up all night.

Your mind will be a ticking bomb from the amount of work he gives you. This guy give some much work on the first day, he make his class more important then all other courses, he expects you to drop everything else to focus on him. An even if you are he will make you think he always right, your always wrong, and take your person thing for himself.

He waited until after the quarter ended to grade the majority of work. Always disorganized and when he fell behind on his schedule he assigned multiple lab reports due the same day as the final (Normal reports are given a week timeline, he gave 3 reports due in a single week). His feedback on exams and reports is lacking, with little information.

His exam, assignments, hw are no where related to each other. He makes up lies about students. No partial creidt allowed. Lots of groups and individuals work, uncoordinated, out dated material, group assign bad, doesn't care about other courses that may conflict in with hslis he will blame/put you on the spot for no focus on him. Dont take him!!!

This guy is serious messed up, he think he always right. And blame his student for asking questions generally. Dont bring up anything personal, he will try to get into your personal. Test dont match what he explain they only match his lab, which afe outdated and unorganized. He racist, biased on religion beliefs, really discriminated, an confusing.

Not in his class, but I hate the textbooks he makes for the physics series. So confusing

When he says he is available outside of class, what he really means is that he's going to sit in the same room as you and ignore you for most of the one hour that he has and help everyone else that show up for calculus/another physics class. When he says you can follow him to his office he gets annoyed when you ask him questions because he's busy.

VERY INCOMPETENT in conceptual teaching. Only reason I am doing well is because I learned mechanics in high school. Doesn't release grades until the end of the quarter. Canvas structure is VERY sloppy and unorganized. Almost as if he doesn't know how to use Canvas. You are basically self studying mechanics in his class, whilst doing rigorous labs.