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Not a bad lecturer, sometimes rushes but there's also just a lot of content to get through. Do NOT go to office hours, very very unhelpful, just says look at your notes from lecture and acts like everything is very obvious. Very unapproachable so if you have questions just ask your TA or someone else, not him.Rate My Professors ↗
The teaching was decent and fairly standard, but the professor was difficult to get along with.Rate My Professors ↗
He is super funny but his lectures are sometimes a bit advanced or hard to followRate My Professors ↗
Heavy writing in lecture and lack of respect for students.Rate My Professors ↗
Prof. Waldron did excellent emphasizing the conceptual part with the math (helped me understand theorems better) in Math 234. He's also pretty accessible with office hours, where he observes your thought process to problems before helping you tweak it, correcting misunderstandings memorably. If you have him, try to understand the math conceptually.Rate My Professors ↗
Professor Waldron was always incredibly rushed during lectures, always claiming that he "didnt have enough time" to explain concepts, and genuinely did not teach me or any of my classmates anything. If you have him as your professor be prepared to have to teach yourself everything in this class.Rate My Professors ↗
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A graduate seminar covering selected topics in Topology.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleMATH 990 offers independent reading and research opportunities across all areas of Mathematics.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
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