liquid nitrogen freak! HORRIBLE prof!!

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avoid this teacher if possible

Great demos but exactly what have we learned since Semptember? If the scale had 0 for clarity, that is probably what I would give him. Very funny in class but mean outside of class.

thanks for failing me; i've always had over 80% in all of my courses; i really did try my best in this course; an exam being worth 70% of your final mark is REALLY unfair.

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Not a nice guy, hard to understand. Lots of demos. Likes to make a mess. Spends too much time rearranging variables and not enough on physics. Final worth 70%, not fair.

He has NO IDEA on how to teach a class. He works with the variables, and before you know it, he comes up with this huge long equation that no one has any idea of how he got it because he goes so quickly. Might as well read your book and just go tothe exams, because he is absolutely useless.

One of those goofs that know everything about physics, but probably have trouble using a bank card. He is the worst teacher i have EVER had. Coming into universtiy i had a 93 in physics, he is so bad at teaching ill be lucky if i pass.

k well lets break it down, he looks at students like lab rats. he looks, sounds and seems like the guy who built frankinstien. and finally, he can cae less about ur grades, his tests r impossible, and if u ask him for help hell gladly make fun of u or spit in ur face. if u have him, drop the course nd take it in the summer

I've seen some bad profs in my day but this guy takes the cake. You can tell that he really doesn't care. He zooms through the material and tells you how it easy it is. Regardless, he teaches a first year course so you have to work around him.

One of the worst profs I've ever seen in my entire life. I have seen bad Profs. but this guys is one of a kind!

This guy seems like he would be a pretty good guy if the relationship wasn't him with a mic, and you in a chair. He flys through the material, making it incomprehensible, and just so much harder than it actually is; followed by him stating that everything is easy. He really could care less about his class. Avoid this prof if at all possible.

I've seen some pretty bad profs in my day but this guy takes the cake. He reflects really poorly on the university.

His class will kill your gpa, and even if you attend every lecture and DGD it can't prepare you for the final because it has little to do with the course. The class average must have been an F and this is with about 20% of students dropping the course. Only take this class if you must.

Awful, awful professor. His lectures are hilarious, but don't really teach you anything. He also seems to hate his students with a passion and tries his hardest to avoid helping them. The Final was completely ridiculous, and all multiple choice. The labs and assignments got me through the course. Avoid him at all costs!

go download the instructor solution manual, and do every single question.

He's a fun professor..mainly because if doesn't make the lectures entertaining there would be absolutely no reason to attend his class or even take a course with him. BRUTALLY HARD and its not caused its physics, it how he teaches physics. He's not an unfair guy, he just fails everyone. Try his class out within the first two weeks and you find out!

Absolutely HORRIBLE! His lectures are just him reading off of his hand written projector slides and he won't explain anything at all! His exams are ridiculous, long multiple choice and open book, so you better hope you're a good guesser. If you want to understand physics DO NOT TAKE HIM AS A PROF!!

My final for this class is in two weeks and I have learnt nothing. The labs and the quizzes will save your mark. His experiments are funny but overall i feel like he has taught me nothing.

I am only here to help first year students coming to the university. DO NOT take Stadnik if you care about your grades. I can't emphasize this enough... Physics was my best subject in high school, and the hardest and my worst subject here because of one horrible professor. His exams are from other schools and are not meant for first years.

Stadnik is an awful professor and I DO NOT recommend taking this course with him. Labs and assignments will save your mark. FInal and Midterm are killer. Also reading off slides doesn't help students learn... doesn't do any examples in class and is just not good at teaching. Luckily exam is multiple choice is MC so if you get lucky you can pass...

Textbook useless, course notes essential. Buy them asap. Study is by putting post it notes to organize his course notes. Exams are open bookopen notes & multiple choice. He has a VERY thick russian accent and does not explain stuff well. If you can pick a different professor, do it because he will ruin your love for physics. Class average: D

Goes too fast for the vast course material and doesn't care about whether the students understand or not. Has unnecessary quiz every lecture that requires you to read(about 10-27 pages) a day before it, assignments were unhelpful and the midterm and final exam was extremely painful(still wondering how I passed). AVOID HIM, IF YOU CAN'T GOODLUCK!!!

Horrible! Run! Do this course at Carleton during the summer and for PHY1122 make sure you take Rogers

RUN AWAY LIKE A BAT OUTTA HELL. He has a couple in-class cool demos, but it DOES NOT make up for the fact that he still uses messy projector sheets with handwritten notes and makes ZERO sense in class. He did accomplish the impossible though, very impressively: he made me despise physics more than I already did.

Avoid this prof at all times. Does not care about student success or teaching. He thinks he can get away with his awful teaching with demos that fail more than half the time. Worst prof I've ever had.

DO NOT TAKE HIS COURSE. Coming from someone who works really hard DO NOT DO IT. HIs exams are not fair and you will suffer. YOUR CGPA WILL SUFFER. LEAVE WHILE YOU CAN. He his not helpful and doesnt care about his students. (If you do have no choice,I suggest practicing textbooks questions everyday. But this is hard to do).1011

He does not convey the material properly and only cares about getting through the material quickly. Make sure you read before coming to class, the quizzes saved me as letter grade. Also, make sure you study literally months in advance for the final. It is the hardest test I've ever written. Class average for the final was 42%.

Get ready for the biggest hit your GPA is likely to take. That is all.

Prepare to derive 3 or 4 equations out of 100s of given equations to solve a single question. from his lecture notes, textbook is useless. his teaching style sucks, doesnt go into depth, prepare to read 40 pages before every class

Textbook is useless, exams are taking from second year physics from other universities, he uses his own lecture notes which are confusing. to solve his questions u pretty much need 3 questions to solve for one variable which u then plug into 2 other equations to find another variable which u plug into 3 more equations to get the answer. he is haram

This man will make you re-think your life choices.

An absolutely awful professor. Does not remotely care about the students, nor if they succeed. Goes on and on about theory and derives millions of occasions, and hardly ever goes through problems. Ask a question that has been covered before, and he will tear you to pieces. Tests are all multiple choice, so things go downhill quickly.

Idk why I gotta take this stupid class; Stadnik made me hate physics more than I ever thought I could. He moves too quickly, his English sucks, and to top it off he derives equations for the majority of his lectures instead of providing practice problems. Best of luck learning off of Mastering Physics.

swtich out of his class

The worst prof I have ever had. Rude and thinks integration is for Kindergartens. His tests are open book and multiple choice and yet it is extremely difficult. No amount of studying can prepare you for him. Don't skip class, do all the assignments and labs to help you pass.

If I were you I would do all I can to find another prof for this course. Doesn't offer many resources for you to succeed, mostly all up to you and teaching yourself.

Expected you to learn all the material from the textbook before class and barely taught anything during the lectures. Lecture time was taken up by mandatory quizzes and elaborate demos, although he did provide good notes online.

PRINT THE COURSE NOTES HE GIVES YOU IN DOCUCENTER AND MAKE IT INTO A SPIRAL BOOK. The lectures are super boring and what is important is what's in his lecture notes, do the homework, understand it and find past midterms. If you have his notes printed into a book, the two textbooks and past midterms you have a good chance to have an A. Open book exam

Worst class I've had so far

What he teaches in class has nothing to do with his midterms or finals, and you'd still have to go his classes because of the quizzes. Never taking him again.

Avoid at all cost.

Stadnik's teaching style is horrible. His exam and midterms are open book thus making them extremely hard. You also have to read about 22 pages before every class in order to succeed on his quizzes everyday. AVOID HIM at all cost and your GPA will thank you.

Simplest solution to taking this class is honestly just to take a different prof. It isnt worth taking this class with him. The labs, quizzes and the assignments count for 38.4% so you can probably easily pass the course, but his exams are very hard. e.g. It is an open book exam so i brought in previous exam and not a single one was even close.

worst prof

Didn't love this guy at all. His lectures aren't helpful (demonstrations are funny) but you have to go because there is a content quiz every day. Readings are really long and hard to finish for every class. I just read his lecture notes (no txtbk) and was fine. Don't let "openbook" fool you: tests are VERY difficult. Threatens to sue students.

Professor Stadnik is the toughest prof I've had. It's impossible to understand the materials he teaches during lectures (which is already very difficult). His evaluations are all multiple choice and quite difficult. He's a poor communicator in and outside the classroom who I would avoid at all costs.

Awful professor, inaccessible outside of the classroom, does not share the recordings of the classes or his slides, very much uncaring, exams and midterms are extremely difficult, you need to do all the work on your own in order to actually learn something.

Dr. Stadnik is the toughest prof I've ever had. Pre-class readings were huge, lectures weren't helpful and no questions allowed, and the exams are the hardest tests I've ever written, because he goes out of his way to find the hardest possible questions that you technically know how to solve. If you have him, RIP to your GPA.

Prof stadnik starting his lec with a quiz , which requires huge work for preview. He kept talking and ignored question in class.

He's funny, but doesn't seem to care much about his students. Takes a long time to respond to emails, and doesn't help out much. His lectures are interesting and he's entertaining but again he doesn't help out much with questions and makes his exams tough.

RUN!!!!!!!

He wants his student to participate in his lecture but do not answer questions that much, he is funny but do not really prepare for his students to succeed. In terms of replying to emails, sometimes he replies with irrelevant answers that do not even answer the questions. Miniquizzes takes place in every lecture, which increases the workload for us

The exams are so difficult. Labs are so unusual

This prof has no care in the world about his students. You are not allowed to ask questions in class which is super important to understand concepts in physics. He refused to answer questions about the midterm bc he says that its all included in his tiny email. You spend most of the class deriving equations rather than learning how to use them.

Very old-fashioned. Expectations of students are way too high. Not sympathetic at all. He never posted slides and tells us to refer to the recorded zoom lecture if we want to see the slides. Would not let us collaborate with other students in the class by restricting chat. Makes everything for inconvenient for students.

Worst Professor I ever had. Can this guy please just retire for student's sake. First time ever I hated a professor personally. Just don't take this guy's courses, period.

If you like to your Prof to teach you, this guy isn't for you. He'll read things off of Slides, expect you to know the concept before the class starts (and quiz you on it). You'd be better off learning from YouTube than attend his class. In all seriousness, his class are a waste of time.

One of the worst first-year professors in the university. His tone is condescending, he hates answering questions, and the workload he gives you is just unreasonable for engineering students. Midterms are on weekends and classes are early in the morning, so you can wake up to the sound of him shouting at you to go to lecture zero. Avoid this guy!!!

Rude, refuses to answer student questions, tests are really hard. Pray for your GPA.

Everything is multiple choice which makes the average grades very low. Very difficult assignments and exams.

the lecture notes that is up on brightspace is in no way helpful since its all over the place and hand written, and the powerpoint slides he goes through in class aren't up on brightspace which makes it harder to study and go back to lectures. the demos that are being held every class are decently demonstrated and it helps clearing concepts.

DO THE PRE-CLASS READINGS. his lectures are fast and the slides aren't posted, making it hard to review. his midterms n exams are all multiple choice, meaning no partial marks. he is rude when you ask questions. exam is worth 40%, so if u mess that up ur done. he seems sweet, but i hate his class so much. avoid at all costs. literally run.

Universities should have younger professors teaching because this old fashion teaching method that professor stank uses will only get people to hate the subject even more. Useless class for engineering students and his early morning quizzes are even more unless. I truly recommend you to take it in Carleton (profs are just better there in general)

Easily worst first year prof. No respect for his students. Lectures are useless except for the mandatory quizzes each lecture. He made a mistake telling us the wrong due date for an assignment, and when I was given a zero for late submission I asked why I had been told the wrong due date and he proceeded to berate and humiliate me over email. Run!

Very tough prof, he only post very old had written notes. He never uploads PowerPoint slides. In every lecture there is a quiz that are wroth 6% of final grade. Do not take the course with him at alllll runnnnnn

For the sake of your GPA and sanity do not take this man's class. He was the only prof teaching it so I had to. He does not post slides, he talks to you as if you have the intelligence of a brick, and he quizzes you on >30 pages of pure physics every class. The only thing he posts are notes that look like they have been written and scanned in 1873.

This prof does not teach at all. He cares about finishing the lecture more than answering students' questions. Whenever you ask him questions, he would humiliate students. REALLY NOT RECOMMENDED.

All tests are multiple-choice, and every class includes a quiz on the textbook reading. He doesn't teach but "develops on the textbook" during the lecture period. Doing the reading does not equate to getting 100% on the quizzes. The all-or-nothing evaluation style is a detriment to his students. If you can, avoid his class at all costs.

Horrible prof. Do the readings and go to the DGDs to actually learn the material. Tests are extremely hard if you don't practice with tests from previous years. Do well in the labs to salvage your grade.

This professor is one of the rudest educators I have encountered. He does not have respect for his students and only teaches in a way that makes it most convenient for him. Avoid this prof at all costs!!

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!! This class almost made me switch out of physics. Your grade is split between midterms, final, lab, homework and in-class quizzes, which SHOULD make this class doable. Lectures are impossible to follow + he only posts indecipherable handwritten garbage. Gets mad when you ask questions, and his (open book) exams are IMPOSSIBLE.

The course load is already tough, and the professor does not make it any better (if not worse). Little constructive feedback is given and concepts are poorly explained.

Worst prof in Ottawa U

Worst prof at Uottawa by far. Better off letting a highschooler teach you.

Not a good listener - does not answer questions well. You get the material or you don't mentality. When you ask for clarification, he tells you that you should know. If you're lucky, he might go on a tangent and MAYBE it's related to what you asked. Doesn't care or want you to ask vibe. Horrible. Talks to the SIDE wall and does not use a mic.

Very negative teacher, very rude and should not be able to teach

This is easy course if you read the context and do practice by assignment and questions. However this prof is rude and no respect on any one of the student. He will humiliate you in public and even telling TA “ignore this guy” when you turns to ask TA on the side. he can even be said to have no idea what basic respect is.

Terrible prof, a lot of readings ahead of every class. No attendance is required but have quizzes every class so attendance is kinda of necessary to get marks. Shows no respect and as others say, he would humiliate you in public when you have questions to ask (bro thinks he's the best lecturer). pretty much a self-learning course.

Lectures are borderline incomprehensible and rely on the heavy textbook readings he gives you before each class, and during class he straight-up ridicules you if you ask a question. Tests are long and exclusively multiple choice with some answers 1 decimal apart. If you want to survive physics, RUN from this guy. In-class demos are fun though 👍

Never again please :(

This is a self-taught class. He is the only professor for some of these courses (different years) so you either pass or you have to retake with him. It is not enough for you to have a general concept. You need to spend the time to understand your material well because compared to other professor's exams, his requires a very good understanding. GL.