Not fun, terrible lecture, poor sense of humor, grading policy unclear

Terrible!! He doesn't tell you how hes grading, he writes all over the board in an unclear fashion. He also demeans students. Don't take him if you can avoid it.

This is by far the worst teacher I have ever had. He does not make any sense. He gets off topic so easily. He does not help you when you ask for it. He challenges on EXAMS instead of homework... Prepare to fail.

BEYOND horrle professor. Confusing, anxious, mumbles, confuses self, makes simple problems complicated and confusing, no syllabus, announces exams two days before-hand without information or study guides, spends an entire 1.5 hour class on ONE simple problem. If you have this professor, good luck.

All I can say is this professor is by far the worst one I have ever had at Westconn. He is very confusing and unorganized, unresponsive to emails, and spends the whole class asking useless questions he doesn't even know the answer to.

Awful, he's a nice guy but just awful professor. He's ll over the place with lectures, super confusing. Never got 2/3 exams back, so I have no idea how I did on them. There was stuff on the exams that we never covered. I went to talk to him about how I was concerned about my grade he told me not to worry, but then I got a C. GPA KILLER. AVOID.

Terrible teacher. Very condescending, doesn't know how to explain things to a class that's clearly just trying to fulfill their math gen ed. Homework is easy but tests are hard and ask for things you've never been taught. Lectures are more like rants, he goes off on unrelated tangents. If you're looking for an easy gen ed, avoid this one.

Be wise and listen to the majority of comments shown for Professor Lightwood. If you want to do well in your math class, RUN from this professor. We only had 2 tests when we were supposed to have 4, homework is hard, tests are even harder. He is very unclear, hard to follow, doesn't answer questions well. It is up to you to teach it to yourself.

He would stand in front of the class and ramble on about absolutely nothing. I asked for help on a problem and told me the answer or just looked at me and walked away? No one had a clue what was going on, he expects you to know this stuff when we are here to learn how to do it? He even told us i am going to quiz you on things you don't know.

Actually the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Don't even bother taking the class if you struggle with math because you will 100% fail. You ask him for help and NONE is given. The fact that he still teaches amazes me. You will no idea what he talking about mostly all of the time. worst teacher DO NOT TAKE!!!

if you ask for help he will just laugh at you

Ended up withdrawing from the class. Gives quizzes and tests before teaching the material. You are set up to get an F. Great guy and can be funny, but I don't understand why he is allowed to be a professor.

He's a pretty nice guy, but he isn't very clear. He's somewhat condescending and will make jokes that aren't even that funny. He thinks it's a good idea to cram quizzes right before an exam instead of doing one every week. He also gives quizzes on stuff we didn't even learn yet. Again,nice guy, but awful professor.

Never graded the midterm, had to go out of my way to get help because he rambles on all class about markers. Doesnt ever follow the book spent half the class on limits and rushed the rest of the chapters.

He is the worst professor ever

hate him. worst professor ive ever had. if you can pick a different teacher then do it.

I hope he stops teaching. Literally the worst teacher I ever had. Wish I checked here before taking his class. Don't even know what we are learning because he babbles on and on and just writes random crap... Stay away.

I can't believe I paid for a class where I learned more from the Internet. Likes to put things he hasn't taught on exams and expects people to know it.

He's a good person, but...I can't recommend him as a professor in good faith. His classes are highly disorganized, the lectures are ad-libbed, the homework expectations are.. what are they? I don't know either. Math courses here present a stark contrast between overly structured (MyMathLab) and virtually no structure (MAT120 to MAT17x).

He is a very nice guy. I think that he is so smart that he has no idea how to teach. If you ask him a question he never actually answers it. Says he shows up late on Exam Days so you only have an hour to do the test, and you don't get the full class time. I am pretty much teaching myself. He is not a good professor.

The absolute WORST professor I have ever had. He is a very smart man but teaching is the last thing he should be doing. He rambles on about who knows what for the entire class, sets no expectations, offers NO help when a question is asked or at office hours (if you can convince him to have it), and all assignments are near impossible. Do not take.

Easily he was one of the most intelligent people I've ever met. That being said I took his class twice as a freshman (really stupid idea) because i withdrew the first time. He rambles more than any professor. Ever. Please just take Dr. Maida instead. Stay away from this professor for your GPA's sake. Thank me later.

If you find you will have this professor, CHANGE CLASSES. He does not know what hes doing and when he does, he will take the most complicated route in explanation. Im lucky to have some prior knowledge in the subject, but if I didnt, I have no doubt that I would fail his class! He messes up often on small details making it difficult to follow.

I came into this class not knowing anything about stats and I am leaving this class not knowing anything about stats. If it wasn't for one of my classmates I don't think I would have passed this class. So if this is on your schedule please switch professors. PS you only have like 2 minutes to take quizzes.

He made stats so hard because he is trying to make you think differently but all he does is confuse you. HORRIBLE lectures, does not give extra credit, once he knows your name he will ask you 10 questions in the same class.

Laughs when you ask questions and loses his markers and cant stay on track

horrible. just run away.

He does not explain things well, gets off topic, doesn't give back any work, we have one month left and we still haven't gotten our midterm grade yet. Awkward to talk to. Overall, don't take this class with him Im so stressed out. RIP my GPA.

There's two weeks left of the semester and we just took our first exam. The week prior to that we took our first quiz. No midterm grades were given and he has just told us that we are all failing. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS!!

We told him we didn't know what we were doing and his reply was "You don't really need to know what you are doing in order to answer these question" Then he wonders why we failed the first test.

The worst professor I've ever had he answers your question with a question. He also does not teach you anything, we are in class for no reason. He says that there is no right answer yet we failed our first exam that we took two weeks ago, mind you that spring semester is about to end in a couple of days. He claims the whole class is failing.

not enough characters to even describe how bad this teacher is. HE IS SO STUPID DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS

He answers every question with some form of "in this universe and cosmos, there is no right or wrong answer..." while slowly proceeding to back away from you, leaving you even more confused.

Very rambly, unclear, seems knowledgeable but not a good teacher. Avoid if you're bad at math. And this is someone with an A in junior and senior year math.

The worst professor I've had at Westconn so far. He still has yet to post any grades and it's 2 weeks past midterm. Whenever you ask him a question he always answers it saying something about the cosmos and then he starts rambling and walks away leaving you clueless. He also takes the whole class to explain something very simple, a waste of time.

Very confused as to what I am supposed to be doing in his class, and we are in week 10 of the semester. He has yet to post any grades onto blackboard or banner web so I am not sure if I am doing well or need to step it up.

Don't take him if you're a non-math major. He's one of those people where he makes zero sense, even though he clearly knows what he's talking about. But if you're smart, or a math major, take the easy A.

Loved to talk about aliens. Loses his markers every class and rants about it the whole lecture. Everything was online including the textbook. I had to have my classmate teach me everything because he does not explain how he gets to the answer and then says there is no wrong or right answer but then fails us all. Switch out of this class of you can.

Emailed him multiple times the first few days 9f class. No response. Took about 4 weeks into the class to get a single email from him. He posted 5 assignments at once. Haven't heard/seen anything from him since. Midterm grades were due this past week. There is no midterm grade. He hasn't graded a single assignment. Theres been no exams. Wth???

Last fall, we started the course late and his communication with students was sparse. Few weeks pass with no instruction and he eventually was off the grid. Had to find a replacement which took until around the week of Thanksgiving to find, so this turned into a winter intersession course that nobody had planned for. What a waste of valuable time.

Professor Lightwood is a nice man. However, he is a horrible professor, he is unorganized, will show up to class late, and hold the class past the end time. His teaching style is very disorganized, he will fill the whiteboard with calculations and make it so messy you can't even follow along. Expect to have to teach yourself a lot of the material.

Spent the entire semester complaining about how his computer files are disappearing. admitted our midterm grades were completely random. Never got any form of test and the entire grade was based off of 8 homeworks that he never handed back, our final grades were a complete surprise as we got no feedback. I wont be surprised if they were random too.