# Allison Mahvi — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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## instructor

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### name

Allison Mahvi

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    "comment": "Professor Mahvi is one of the best professors in the mech E department. She is super nice, really cares about student success, and does amazing hand written lectures. Exams are a tad difficult, I'd say so be ready for those. But still would highly recommend Professor Mahvi. ",
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    "comment": "Heat transfer is a hard class but Mahvi does an amazing job making it as accessible as possible. Exams are difficult but fairly graded. Be prepared to spend a lot of time on homework. Handwritten notes for lectures are definitely a breath of fresh air from professors who just use slides.",
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    "comment": "Worst class I've ever taken. Lectures are just rapid-fire equations with zero explanation. Mandatory discussions spent debugging EES while learning nothing. Work graded like trash, points lost for stuff we were never even taught. Missing equations, unclear expectations&#8212;just a complete disaster. Total waste of time and a useless degree requirement.",
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