Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
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Sean Paul
What students say
Original student reviews · all captured dates
Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
Disorganized teaching and old-fashioned personality. It seems as though, after decades of teaching, there have only been a handful of students he could truly get along with, and he constantly brings them up repeatedly. He looks down on any student who does not meet those standards.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
Don't be misled by his outward enthusiasm. In reality, he seems to enjoy the attention more than genuinely caring about students, and he shows very little sympathy toward those who struggle.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
I should have trusted his RMP reviews and avoided taking his class. He seems to believe that whenever students struggle, it always entirely the students' own fault. I feel sorry for him.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
Final Exam was twice as long as previous exams, much more difficult, written in a new language, and we had the same amount of time. He says we have to do the exam on separate pages we dont even turn in and just transfer the answers over? no room to do the questions on the same page. just a total display of complete and utter incompetence.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
There has never been anything fair about this. Says all singularities will be simple poles on the exam and then its double pole. Says complex integral will be one of 33ish from our problem set/his own list, also a lie. Doesn't use any of the notation from the book we do the problems from so the exam is quite literally a different language.Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Sean Paul
MATH 761
Differentiable Manifolds
3 creditsMATH 761 covers differentiable manifolds, vector bundles, differential forms, and Riemannian metrics.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Sean Paul receives polarized feedback regarding his teaching organization and lecture style. One reviewer found his lectures unorganized and lacking notes, while another found them exciting and helpful for concentration. Review 2 notes his homework is difficult, while Review 1 finds exams easy.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2025Recorded teaching history
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| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2026 | MATH 761 | Differentiable Manifolds |
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