# Michael Ferris — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## instructor

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### name

Michael Ferris

### email

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    "comment": "You really need to do well on the homework, since on the project he'll take off 30-40% just because he feels like it, even if you follow the directions carefully. A bunch of people were asking him to please give any amount of justification for the final project grades, and he tells us to ask him in office hours NEXT SEMESTER, what a joke.",
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