Horrible teacher! Unavailable outside of class. Unable to reach him. His exams are REALLY hard. Webassigns are a pain to do. TA's don't speak english so it is even harder to understand them. Pilachowski thinks he is funny but he is just a boring old man.

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL TEACHER! WORST TEACHER! you can never ask a question or he gets so mad, making you feel so dumb, his office hours are horrible, it takes him about 10 days to respond to your emails, and then you show up at the time you agree with him on time and he shows up 20 mins late, does not explain things well, or for the fact more than once

All he does is read his power points. TA is much more helpful as she actually teaches and and works through problems rather than saying that we should already know the material and if we don't we should just go to tutoring. Piachowski is always 5-10 min late for lectures. Worst professor.

Easily the laziest math teacher I've ever had. Shows up to class 10 minutes late on a daily basis, as a result he rushes through the lectures and fails to go over important material and example problems. He also refuses to help students during the discussion. I thought that was the point of discussion???

Probably the least helpful and most arrogant professors I have had. On the first day of class he told us that it was just a rumor that he shows up to class late every day, and since then he has hardly ever been to class on time. Refuses to give straight answers to questions and instead just tells you that you should have paid attention more.

Professor Tim is pretty cool. However, he moves really fast (since he comes to class late) and barely answers questions. If he does he will totally embarrass you in front of the whole class making you feel even more dumb than before. He also teaches as if everyone had took calculus in high school before and that's even worse.

This class is frustrating. Lectures consist of reading off the powerpoint slides with minimal to no explanation. WebAssign homework tends to be much more complex than examples covered in class. My TA raises his voice when students don't understand his bad explanations. Group work in every single lecture and discussion. Take it with someone else.

The class is easy to do well in, show up to discussion, do the h/w, use test bank. Easy A or B. Tim is an absolute clown. Starts class late every day. Goes way too quick thru examples. Arrogant when asked questions. Has a huge hard on for bike safety. Wastes tons of in class time. Easy in class examples, impossibly hard h/w and group assignments.

I've only had this professor for less than 2 weeks, and I'm grateful I already had my 140 credit from AP's. HE TALKS TOO FAST, you can't understand anything he says and I learned to avoid to have him as a professor if I want to actually understand and PASS math.

Worst professor I have ever taken in my college career. As a math teacher he has not picked up the chalk or a marker the whole semester. He acts like a tape recorder in classes where every lecture is the same form previous semesters. Go thought his powerpoint and not go notes on his site. Does not post powerpoint from class and moves fast.

This man cant teach. He just goes over slides quickly skips over half of his notes, and wont help you for anything. very Rude to his students.... doesn't want them to succeed

Took him for both 140 and 141. Gives all information on a powerpoint with little explanation beyond what is on the powerpoint. You will have to do a lot of teaching yourself because what is done in class will not be helpful for a lot of the online homework. But sometimes he brings in his sugar gliders so I guess its not 100% terrible

This being my first time taking calc, he was absolutely awful for math 140. He taught off of powerpoints, doesn't care about his students, and would never answer questions in class. It was an awful experience.

Tim's lectures could be okay, except for the fact that he skips through the "little stuff" that you "should be able to figure out yourself." He's often late to class, doesn't respond to student concerns (he is tenured after all), and blames you for the lost time. Tim ruined my math experience for my first year of University.

If I never took Calculus in high school I would be very lost. He teaches from a power point, and maybe picked up the chalk ONCE to write where the final was. Does not answer questions, and if he does call on you, he makes you feel very dumb for not knowing the answer. Lots of homework that is a lot harder than the examples in class.

Timmy has literally taught me nothing. He teaches from powerpoint slides, doesnt fully explain any concepts, and doesnt take questions. You have to show up to lectures because of the random lecture quizzes, but the majority of people just switch on Khan Academy while in lecture. His tests arent too hard, but RIP if youve never taken calc before

He's irritating to listen to during lectures and his powerpoints that he reads from are awful. Exams are standard for a college calc class but make sure to keep up with the large amount of online homework. Overall it's pretty easy to get at least a B. Don't bother approaching him if you want help go to your TA.

Pilachowski is an absolute nightmare for someone who has never taken a math class before. He's very irritating and listening to him lecture is like watching paint dry. He teaches directly off powerpoint slides and doesn't go into detail. He doesn't take questions and it's obvious he doesn't care if we pass. Find a better professor.

I went to every lecture and did not do well. Professor Pilachowski did not teach me anything. All the material I learnt was from out of class tutoring. The only good thing about this class is that he posts all the past tests online so if you can take those and do well, you will do well on the actual exam. Good luck

Tim is the absolute worst professor I have ever had. He does not teach at ALL, just expects you to know what is going on. He only uses powerpoints and there are daily pop quizzes that have no partial credit. Do not bother going to a review session, he gives you a test and tells you to find the answers with friends. There is a 2% curve at the end.

Only take this class if youve taken calc before and can teach yourself how to do math. He spends way too much talk repeating unnecessary information and complains way too much about bikes on the sidewalk

He is the absolute worst. Only good thing he does is putting up his lecture notes online. He is more concerned about bicycles and scooters on sidewalks than he is about teaching the course.

This class is BRUTAL and even the TAs felt bad for us. He lectures super fast and just reads. We aren't fully taught the material, and for stuff we dont get to he tells us to go home and look over it. The grading exams is unfair and the lectures do not cover everything tested.

So many weird policies and he is not helpful at all.

Awful teacher, all he does is read what his PowerPoint says, he does not take questions or perform examples on the board during class. Class is focused with 70% of your grade being exams. He puts trick questions not shown on the review, to add them to the exam so he sets you up to fail. He has around a 27% fail/drop rate to show for his teaching

If you're the type of person who needs problems to be written out during class (like most students), AVOID TIM. He survives on PowerPoint and doesn't write anything out (which is really weird for a hard math class). His note outlines are complex and wordy with very little helpful material. Also the textbook sucks so if ur confused ur screwed

If you've never taken calc before or if you struggle with math do NOT get this prof. He just reads off of his lecture slides and doesn't write out the work, and the way he presents problems is confusing. You will spend a lot of time outside of class teaching yourself the material. He also tends to go off-topic and rant about bikers, weird dude.

He is terrible at teaching. His tests are hard. I went to math tutoring and I told them I had him and they laughed and said good luck. Most of the people I used to go to tutoring with dropped out of his class. The class was full on the first day and now it is almost empty.

He basically wants you to know everything before hand and expects you to understand the material after only a few steps. He wastes a lot of time in lectures talking about his personal life and refuses to make up for it. He gives the most basic examples during lecture and then the homework looks nothing like what was taught. Avoid him if you can.

Tim wastes a lot of time during lectures talking about himself and how much he hates VEO scooters. He expects everyone to know everything and makes the homework 10 times harder than what he "teaches" in class. For his review sessions, he tells us to work with someone next to us and doesn't actually show us how to do the problems. Avoid him.

PLEASE do not take Tim. He does not lecture, he just reads off of slides, and if you are anything like me, you learn math better when math is actually performed during the lecture instead of an audiobook of the textbook. He is also not logical at all when it comes to grading matters and excused absences.

DO NOT CHOOSE TIM AS A PROFESSOR. YOU WILL FAIL THIS CLASS!! All he does is read from the slides and expects you to understand. Also if you've never taken a Calc class before this you will struggle a lot.

DO NOT TAKE HIM. I studied nearly 6 hours daily for his class and still ended up failing. He does NOT teach any content, he significantly lacks understanding when it comes to personal matters. He assigns WAY too much online homework. Like 3-4 assignments per week that took me 1-2 hours each to complete, not including studying. Do. Not. take. Him.

He was one of the worst math teacher I have had. Do not take his class. all he does is read off the slide. also he thinks everyone has taken the same math class and remembers everything from high school. He dosnt explain what his is doing well. Also he give 3 HW a week that take each a hour.

if you don't know calc coming into this course STAY AWAY. lectures are not helpful, exams are difficult, and are often on content not covered in class. The majority of my learning was teaching this material to myself and using the textbook and homework. his TA is also awful and can't explain anything. he also gets mean and yells at students 0/5

If you want to keep your sanity STAY AWAY FROM PILACHOWSKI! I took calc in highschool thinking this class would be an easy A, I was wrong. His exams were extremely difficult and had nothing to do with the homeworks or lectures. Be ready for lots of word problems. If you were like me and had/has to endure this pain I wish you great luck.

In my entire life of education at any given institution I have never had a MATH teacher or professor use a powerpoint to “teach”. Whether you go to the lectures or just use the online lectures, all he does is talk through a powerpoint. In the discussion sections the TA's are also told to not help us. This class feels like a trap, avoid at all costs

If I could rate him a 0, I would. He doesn't teach the material and often goes on unrelated rants. He's rude and yells frequently, even during tests, making it hard to focus. He gets mad when students ask questions, which makes it harder to learn. This is a required course, and he's the one making it far more difficult than it needs to be.

I'm horrified, my 1st exam: 1. Never put up a timer, which he promised 2. Raised his voice, "You're not in kindergarten anymore." 3. W/h 3 min left, he raised his voice again to clean up 4. Said "he doesn't understand why we don't listen." The room was quiet & everyone was listening The average was 50.3% for an ELEMENTARY Calc Exam.

A bad person and worse professor. Tim rarely went into great detail in lectures, expecting text to be the main resource to consult. In exams Tim was without hyperbole, abusive. Yelling at students, just being needlessly rude. For a mandatory course, Tim made it unbearable. I withdrew as I don't intend to receive a poor grade from a poor professor.

WORST CALC TEACHER EVER! How is he still employed? He's rude, he doesn't know how to teach, and isn't understanding of people's situations at all. IF YOU WANNA GET AN A, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE WITH HIS CLASS. good luck.