This is a very difficult course for most first years, especially if you come with low expectations thinking it may be in similar difficulty to one of the following prerequisite courses taken earlier. The actual course load isn't heavy, but the additional time you need to take to practice problems and read from the textbook will be heavy. Try to do well here because a lot of the material covered will 100% come up in later classes.

A mess of a class. Seemed to leap around the textbook absolutely aimlessly. The first midterm was hard, but the second was absolutely BRUTAL.

Very soft-spoken and difficult to hear despite the use of his mic in the lecture hall. Also pretty disorganized in terms of his teaching.

If you don't need this course, don't take it. If you do need it, do the suggested problems and keep up with the work and make sure you understand everything