# AKI HASHIMOTO — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## instructor

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### name

AKI HASHIMOTO

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## reviews

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    "comment": "Prof. Aki's lectures often seemed very poorly planned. He made very frequent mistakes during lectures, went on unrelated tangents, and did not effectively relay the important parts of the material.  Most egregiously, Prof. Aki had no scheduled office hours.  He said that we may ask questions after class, but he often seemed irritated by them.",
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    "comment": "Goes on tangents in lectures and studying out of the book is really how you will learn the content. Hard to learn from his lectures but if you read the book and learn from it the lectures add on an additional layer of interest to electrodynamics. Grades pretty easily but seriously, read Griffiths. ",
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    "review_date": "2025-05-14 16:45:53 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "Worst professor I've had. If you can take a class with anyone else, do it. If not, Aki's lectures only make sense if you already know the material&#8212;his analogies/tangents are otherwise completely useless. To get anything out of the lectures, read the book beforehand or ask ChatGPT during class. They'll teach you much more than Aki can or ever will.",
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    "comment": "He is the worst lecturer... if you're taking a class with him, expect to be teaching yourself out of the book. He wrote in faded marker on a whiteboard in a huge lecture hall and he mumbled when he talked. However, his homeworks were easy and his tests were basically just homeworks, but reworded. So study the homeworks and its honestly an easy A.",
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    "comment": "The worst prof ever. Just talk things he wants randomly. No structure at all.",
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