Horrible teacher. Mean to her students.

not flexible and makes a lot of mistakes marking papers.

This professor is sarcastic and mean. Her grading is either ridiculously easy or completely unrelated to any sort of known grading system. This means she'll fail everyone for the first couple quizzes. Go to office hours to be browbeaten....it's not fun

By far, the WORST professor. She is arrogant, condescending, mean, and unfair. Going to her office hours is like going to a war--you'll come out feeling like you've been blown up from the way she talks to you. Horrible grader, and classes are unbearable.

she is absolutely dreadful. She is most likely one of the worst professors at BU. She's arrogant and rude and thinks she's smarter than she really is. She should be fired.

This has to be the worst class I have every taken! The content would not be so bad if it weren't for her!!! Honestly, if there is any way to avoid taking Vigil I would HIGHLY recommend it. I agree with the people before me, she is dreadful, condescending, annoying B***! Don't think it will be any different from you...

Belittling and confrontational.

Horrible, she is very insecure of herself and vents through being harsh to her students. She needs a man.

Easily the worst Professor I have ever had, her exam was ridiculous and she threatened an entire class of academic suspension for plagerism because we didnt site sources her way... It would help if she told us her method before the paper was due. Should be fired, just a horrible teacher in general.

Some people are meant to teach some are not. Professor Vigil is a clear case of someone who should not be teaching. I am also fairly sure she is Satan. Be afraid be very afraid.

Extremely condescending, rude, and not helpful. Does not know how to teach effectively or communicate to her students. Insists on being called "Dr." and says "is this making sense?" upwards of 60 times per class. Uses threats to scare students and tests on subjects that she doesn't teach in class. Does not accommodate full-time professionals.

Horrible

This teacher is absolutely HORRIBLE. She is a rude ****, and I pity every student that will have her in the future. She should have her job taken away from her. Boston University is supposed to be a reknown university. Tammy Vigil is nothing more than a flaw to the university and should be rid of immediatley. She makes the University look aweful.

witch!!!

this professor has made my experience in the school of communications the worst thing so far in my young life. how does such a prestigious university, such as BU, hire such a cold hearted egotistical maniac Dr. Vigil, as she demands to be called should not be allowed to call herself an educator BEWARE OF THIS SICK PERSON,GET OUT BEFORE IT'S TOO LAT

Increasing the amount of theories covered during the semester does not automaticallly increase the quality of the class. 33% of your score comes from interpreting com theories not yet covered in class!

she really is a disappointment as a person and a teacher.

Take a look around she's one of the few that has 43 ratings...and they are true!!!! She should be FIRED!!! She's the worst professor I have ever had!! She gives professors a bad bad name. Please somebody FIRE HER!!! She made my life miserable! Run for your life!!!

She doesn't care if you really understand or get anything useful out of her class. She loves pushing theories down your throat, no matter what. And guess what you get graded on how well you swallowed it.. doesn't matter if you digested it or fell sick! Someone please fire her. She is EVIL !

Worst professor I've encountered in COM. She is awful. Her attendence policy is unfair (she gave me crap for missing class for my friend's funeral). Her voice makes you want to gouge your eyes out with a pencil. And you're not going to get an A. Her class is pointless. She treats her students like kindergardeners. Don't put yourself through it.

She is one of the worst profs. of all time. Condescending, rude and she somehow avoids teaching by making this grad.-level class do kindergarten-style activities. Oh, and she says "Is this making sense to you guys" verbatim an average of 30 times per hour. I keep track every class. It's the only way I stay sane.

This professor is an embarrassment to Boston University. She is rude, condescending and simply does not know how to teach. Observe the sheer number of posts on this site, and read them all. Notice a pattern? It's almost as repetitious as her "Is this making sense to you guys?" (which she really does say 238749237654 times per class).

And I quote her, "Most of us stopped using encyclopedia's in the 5th grade." This is merely one example of how condescending and pompus she is. She makes you feel stupid for asking questions. What's worst is she tells you to come in and ask questions but then she refuses to help you and just makes fun of you for asking. STAY AWAY FROM VIGIL!

She made a lot of students miserable.

Doesn't actually do anything in COM101 besides introduce speakers and ask them questions. Her voice is like poison. You can only have two absences per semester before your grade is lowered. You have to swipe in to class, so she is clearly very strict about it. Overall, you learn nothing in this class and Vigil only makes this bas experience worse.

yeah, she doesn't teach. she just introduces the class. this woman is awful, i had correspondences with her and she was unnecessarily rude. she speaks to students in an extremely condescending tone. don't know how she was ever hired

While I sit in this class and literally hear her talk while I write this I cannot explain my discomfort. Her voice hurts my ears, and her comments which are an attempt to make her seem intelligent fail, miserably. She is possibly the worst professor I have ever come across...is this making sense? No Professor, Vigil, not even in the slightest...

Shes an absolute idiot. She asked what kind of person you woud want to be stuck on an island with. I guarantee if i were lost on an island and she was one of the people with me she would be the first to go. Whoever hired this lady should be fired NOW!!! her voice is honestly nails on a chalk board

why is she teaching the intro class???? they will lose COM majors by having her teach this course. she is mean, condescending, and doesn't know how to teach! i actually think she hates students in general.

She is condescending, unhelpful, and almost rude. Her lecture is absolutely pointless, but she puts arbitrary things from it into the exams. You have to teach yourself 100% to the textbook for COM 101 (she edited it, but it's so flawed).

I don't even know where to begin with Prof. Vigil, or excuse me, DR. VIGIL(yeah you'll definitely learn about her phD very soon if you take this class).Vigil is just the wrong person to be lecturing to students. Kind of ironic how a COM professor teaches about proper communication, yet fails to do so herself and is condescending toward her students

Worst teacher I have ever had in my entire life. Made me decide not to major in communication - if you have any interest in this career, stay away from her. By far the weakest link in all of Boston University's faculty, really disappointing. I regret spending one cent on her class.

She's not very understanding to any of her students and it is very clear that she shows no interest in her student's futures and aspirations. She should not have that much power over students, especially since her class dictates whether you can be in the College of Communications or not. Also her class is a bore and she tries to be funny but isnt

worst ever! don't take!

Professor Vigil's textbook is poorly written, riddled with typos, difficult to understand and ridiculously wordy. You could summarize her horrible lectures and textbook into a 10 minute PowerPoint taught by a capable professor in COM201. In fact, that is exactly how I learned the material she was supposed to teach me. Don't bother going to class

Most boring professor with the most irritating voice. If COM101 wasn't required NOBODY would take her class.

So I decided to comment here because I thought her average on this site was FAR too high. She is condescending and spends a good amount of time lecturing you, not about the subject matter, but about what students are doing wrong. That high school mentality where if one person misbehaved, that suddenly meant the whole class needed to be punished.

SUPREMELY CONDESCENDING.

Do yourself a favor and do everything to NOT take this class. I have never had such a rude, unhelpful, and condescending teacher in my life. In the case of TAs-- let's hope you get a good one because the TA apples do not fall far from the Tammy Tree. Mine was just as rude as the queen bee herself. Good. Luck.

She is a nightmare. This class made me want to drop out of school. Thinking of her voice still sends chills up my spine. Extremely condescending in her lectures. It's horrible that this class is required and is the introduction class to COM. The school gets a lot better after you finish this class.

She is so annoying. Her textbook is also terrible. I did really well in the class and never went to lecture. But I did get the lecture notes from friends and read the textbook.

CO101 is the stupidest class I've ever taken. The paper assignments were less complex than things I wrote freshman year of high school.

She is the worst professor I ever had in BU. The reason Vigil exists in this world is because school wants to "balance" grades and lower the average gpa of you folks. After you just got in COM and survived her CM101 and later on you just found out this evil shiiiitty hard grader still teach other courses. She jst pretend to know what she is teachin

She is an extremely tough grader even when you clearly tried. She isn't very clear when it comes to what she's looking for in an assignment. Overall, just not a pleasurable experience.

Professor Vigil is probably the most cold-hearted human I have ever met. She is the type of person who makes me question why some people go into education at all. She clearly does NOT want her students to do well and gets pleasure out of ruining GPAs. Unless you want to spend your semester having existential crises, steer away from this lady.

Condescending professor with very boring lectures. Doesn't help that the class is SO boring. I basically never went to lectures as the lecture content is basically all from the textbook. Also pointless in-class activities.

The expensive textbook wasn't necessary. She is a bad lecturer, and does not always treat students with respect.

The worst class I have taken yet. I do not understand the point of this class at all. Even worse, prof makes it a nightmare. She is so condescending and unpleasant to listen to. In a 100+ lecture class, she expects people to participate. When no one does, she makes comments that are sometimes offensive to us. She also assigns random presentations.

A nightmare. For somebody who boasts about her doctorate education, she conducts her courses like a kindergarten classroom. The course material is abhorrent for a university education, and is a repeat of her equally terrible intro class. Lectures are useless and your time is better spent playing with a rubber band. A true stain on our college.

Professor Vigil is one of my least favorite professors I've had at BU. She is extremely harsh, unreasonable and not approachable whatsoever. She also is very condescending and talks way too much about herself. When you ask her a question regarding an assignment or something you simply didn't understand she smirks at you as if you were stupid.

WORST PROFESSOR EVER. She makes learning incredibly UNPLEASANT. Most professors who teach in com are very sweet/good people. She is not. She purposely will do things to make you struggle not in a good helpful way.

Professor Vigil is hands down the worst professor I've had so far in my BU experience. Not only is she extremely condescending, she doesn't teach material, boasts about how she doesn't answer her emails, and gives extremely vague project requirements. The COM department should really re-evaluate her teaching, especially in a foundation course.

If this was her first year teaching I wouldn't be surprised, but she has taught for years and years. The projects were vague with no clear rubric, which makes them extremely subjective to grade. The lectures hold almost no information. She will start lecturing and then go off topic and by the end you don't learn anything. Students deserve better.

If her having the term PHD in her email username isn't enough of a sign for you that she's the worst, let me list out a few reasons: condescending, rude, aggressive, unclear assignments, horribly unfair grading, satan's daughter. I would rather get smashed between the BU shuttle and the T than ever be in her presence again.

Hands down the worst professor I've had at BU. Extremely unclear guidelines for assignments, dry lectures, and overall unapproachability. If this class weren't mandatory, I would suggest never taking it.

Very passive aggressive tone through emails and in lecture. Sardonic attitude, thinks she's funny sometimes when she's not. Tough grader without clear reason. Expects a lot more participation in lecture than she gets, but she is the least inspirational professor so nobody wants to participate.

No thank you, NEXT!

Vigil is the vegan that needs to let everyone know she's a vegan. For someone who boasts about their PhD degree and how she got accepted into Harvard, you'd think she'd be more organized with her class. She lacks compassion for her students and runs it like a military academy. Her feedback is brash and not helpful. Among the worst. Thank u, next.

Despite her being a communications professor she is actually a very poor communicator and sets unrealistic expectations. No wonder she boasts so much about her acceptance to a certain Ivy League university, because that pretty much sums up how she grades assignments. DO NOT take if possible.

Tammy Vigil is the worst professor you could ever imagine. If there is ANY way you can take this class over the Summer with a different professor, I would strongly recommend you do so. She is not helpful, will yell at you, grades harshly, gives impossible online exams, and will not make time to meet with you. Also, the textbooks are confusing/wordy

Vigil is the worst professor I have ever had. The workload for the class is extremely heavy and grading criteria is unclear. She does not give rubrics because we "would not get one in the real world". Lectures are not mandatory and not worth it, she talks about herself for 85% of the class. The most frustrating class I've ever taken.

Her expectations for paper is really high but the grading criteria is very unclear. She assigns too many people in a group, makes it even harder to cooperate. She does not try to understand what people actually feel about her project, and even said she doesnt care about her grade on rate my professor. Why does BU make CM180 unavoidable?

The only word that comes to mind when I think of Professor Vigils CM180 class is terrible. She created a hostile and unproductive learning environment. Her lectures were incredibly difficult to follow and grading was entirely random and not based on actual knowledge or writing ability. If anyone asked a question she made fun of them. Truly awful!

The worst professor I've ever met. She ruined my semester.

Absolutely TERRIBLE Professor. She speaks in the most condescending tone to her students and grade this like a 400 level class. Lecture with her is completely invaluable, since she makes her exams completely based on the textbook. I sincerely hope that when she walks through the gates of Hell, she just burns. She was the worst prof I've ever had.

I'm one of those students that always goes to office hours and tries to ask for help whenever I can to get a better grade. Even when I went and asked for help, Dr. Vigil was not useful at all. She was condescending and rude whenever I asked questions and the exams were ridiculously hard for all the info being from the textbook. She's the worst.

I took this class fall 2018 and already left a rating, yet i feel as a senior i owe it to the lower class-men to warn you: DO NOT TAKE HER FOR ANYTHING. If you need her specific class for credit, see if you can find equivalent credit from a state/community school from where you're from. I'm so serious, she's a terrible teacher.

The best prof. ever if you want to ruin your entire semester! She lets you teach yourself. As the semester keeps going, she teaches less and less knowledge. Did she ever prepare for class? The way she grades is more than terrible and random. She approved your topic last week and gave you a 65 for improper topic choice. 1.0 is too much for her.

She ruins my summer session. Would give you bad grades with one little discussion missing. She just doesn't want her student to pass exams. She acts kind in classes but is such a tough geader. Waste of energy and money.

The ivory tower spares Tammy a life of serial unemployment. Whatever redeeming qualities she may have are quashed by her narcissism, deceit, and eagerness to cultivate enmity. Bad teachers have an interesting way of moving into administration. So it is with Tammy. There are few checks on her toxic behavior and its far-reaching consequences at COM.

Prof. Vigil writes that "diapering babies" is an activity beneath the dignity of educated, successful people. Tragic that she's incapable of loving and nurturing another human being so unconditionally. Someone diapered her when she was young and likely will again in old age. In a just world, future caretakers will leave her to sit in it.

Vigil fosters an intellectually cramped, creatively stunted, fear-dominated learning environment. Lectures are a poorly executed assemblage of social commentary from a true believer on the distant political left. If you care about your grade, you're conditioned to make broad statements about complex issues instead of speaking honestly and freely.

If you have the displeasure of being in one of Vigils classes for longer than one hour at a time I want you to know from the bottom of my heart, im sorry. This Harvard prof. reject does not see her students as people. Run for the hills. Please. Save yourself.

Truly such a mean, vindictive woman. I got a fine grade in this class, but I have never experienced a professor as derogatory as Vigil. It seems as if she gets pleasure from knocking 20 year olds down a peg and proving she is intellectually superior. Avoid her if you want a professor that actually treats you like a human.

literally every single negative rating on here is correct. i thought they must be exaggerating, but no. she left actual insults on my paper feedback. i don't know what causes her to act this way, but i hope she gets the help she needs. overall a vile person.

This class was a nightmare. The professor was extremely condescending and unhelpful, even in office hours. The exams were ridiculously difficult, focused solely on the textbook. I wish I had used unstuck study to help with the brutal study prep.