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Baltimore, Craig

Cumulative GPA: 1.83/4.00 with 24 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 2.00
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 1.83

Architectural Engineering Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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ARCE 212 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 12:03 am, Sep 10, 2010		I don\'t know - It seemed like a LOT of work, but when I was willing to put the work in, it showed in the grade. Baltimore has an odd sense of humor, it\'s true - but he\'s not the worst prof I\'ve had by a long shot - maybe I\'ve had really bad luck?! Maybe too much studying for the units, maybe too much time for what the class offered, but the class and the prof weren\'t nearly so bad as I feared after reading previous reviews! But I took it in the 09-10 year. Is he getting better? Who knows?

ARCE 212 Sophomore Grade Earned: F General Ed 3:38 pm, Jun 8, 2010		Man. Baltimore was simply the most amazing teacher I have ever had. I mean seriously, not only is he handsome but incredibly intelligent. Seriously,he was so smart I couldn\'t grasp anything he was talking about. But nonetheless, it enlightened my life despite feeling utterly stupid when in his presence. Doing his homework was also amazing because it reflected his glory. I mean, some people would say that it was the lamp shining light off of it...but nay! I saw it was his awesomeness. Mind you, I failed everything...but that was because I was enamored with his very being...I was paralyzed out of fear of being so unworthy. Take him, you won\'t regret it. I didn\'t...and I failed. He makes unicorns look like Obama\'s health care reform. yeah, try to make sense out of that. He is the Chuck Norris of all ARCE professors.

ARCE 211 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 12:59 pm, Apr 30, 2009		Baltimore has such a limited grasp on English grammar (despite it being his native language) that he tends to communicate one thing while meaning something entirely different, often making it difficult to follow his lectures. If your homework was not graded fairly, he will side with the grader except in the most extreme cases. As sour as his class may be, he is a great guy. That doesn't make up for his class, but it's true nonetheless.

ARCE 212 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 4:40 pm, Mar 3, 2009		Reading the comment below, it appears Craig is writing his own reviews.

ARCE 212 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:40 pm, Feb 14, 2008		Baltimore is a very good professor. Regardless of what other ratings say, his lectures are very clear and understandable. He gives you many opportunities to improve your grade and always helps you if you go to office hours. Just make sure you know what to ask (dont just go and say you are lost) He encourages effort. Make sure you read all the readings assigned for they are very helpful for understanding the material covered in class.

ARCE 451 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 6:23 pm, Oct 31, 2007		he succeeds at being ambiguous and ultimately teaching you nothing. he is the biggest and most arrogant jerk i have ever met in my life. avoid him at all costs. ass hole who ruined my life....i'll hate him forever

ARCE 315 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 9:30 pm, Jul 25, 2007		Craig Baltimore...what can I say...at first I was very apprehensive, but to give him credit, he wasn't as bad as everyone predicted! This was a summer course, so that of course changes things, but it really wasn't overly challenging. The HW wasn't too hard, but often missing essential parts and / or numbers which obviously makes it impossible to do. The tests were mostly conceptual multichoice / fill-in / definitions with a few straight-forward calculations towards the end. He gave a lot of extra credit too. We built shear walls and knocked them down with sledgehammers... best ARCE moment I have had (maybe the first). A lot of people have a hard time getting used to him, myself included. His hw format is a little anal and you get marked off randomly and w/o explanation... a little frustrating... and he has an odd sense of humor, which ironically turns out to be pretty hilarious. Teaching ability... somewhere in the middle, he has a lot to offer for real world applicability and some useful rules of thumb. All in all, rather enjoyable at times and at othertimes, you will want to gouge your eyeballs out. It is a rollercoaster ride, but he isn't the worst arce teacher just yet..... give him a try...who knows...

ARCE 211 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 10:44 pm, Feb 12, 2007		arce is an important class to establish a foundation for all other arce classes.... DONT TAKE BALTIMORE TO ESTABLISH THIS FOUNDATION...... he does not describe HOW to do problems.... he skips steps and jumps from easy to really hard problems.... he makes u feel like a dumbass if u try and ask questions for help. over 2/3's of my class had to ask older people for help.... he doesn't do example problems or go over homework. his graders are inconsistant and take off points for really dumb things like putting the page number in the wrong corner. seriously, if u want to learn arce, this is not the teacher to take.

ARCE 315 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 11:54 pm, Jul 24, 2006		Craig is the biggest jackass I've ever had as a teacher. Basically he spends half the class teaching and the other half talking about Craig Baltimore. I swear this guy thinks he saved california through is engineering or something. Anyways his HWs aren't to bad sometimes they can be long and very tedious. His test aren't bad either but you dont really know what to expect. All the HW's are math problems and it seemed like most of his exams consisted of conceptual questions. Overall I have to say hes one of the worst teachers ive ever had and he might be next years winner for deutsch bag of the universe.

ARCE 212 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 11:47 am, Jul 3, 2006		Overall, a decent teacher. true he did tell alot of stories, and his homework assignments werent all that clear, but he always went over stuff that we didnt understand, IF it was brought up in class. his grading scheme is beyond me, as the homeworks WERE graded inconsistently, but if you did the homework and asked questions, you should be ok on the exam. the exam definetly was not what i had expected, given previous homework assignments, but i still did well. The final was stupid because it was cumulative and taken as a group final with ALL other arce 212 classes, where each professor was assigned to write and grade 1 problem...some topics which may have been covered in other 212 classes were on the final, so.. it was a bad final.. stupid cal poly.

ARCE 212 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 5:19 pm, Mar 29, 2006		His class is worthless to go to because his lectures don't help you at all on the hw. He does absolutely no example problems so the only way i finished the hw was doing it all in the tutoring on campus. one midterm which wasnt bad and a final which they made into a common final with all the 212 sections so it was a lot harder than it should have been. he also has a serious grudge against cm majors.

ARCE 212 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:25 am, Mar 16, 2006		Good professor. His lectures are really straightforward. The midterm was not too difficult and the homework is pretty reasonable. Lot of opportunities to do well in his class.

ARCE 212 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 9:56 am, Jan 26, 2006		Despite his corny jokes, Baltimore is a pretty good teacher. For those of you who don't understand the material, it is probably because you don't put in any effort. The reading he provides us is optional, but definitely do it...it will only help you further understand the lectures. Baltimore is a good guy, and you should utilize his office hours when you can...he can explain stuff better there.

ARCE 322 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 9:51 am, Aug 9, 2005		As a teacher he is so scattered & unorganized and his teaching methods distract from learning (as in he tells personal stories in the middle of example problems). Exam questions didn't clearly represent our homework assignmnets and he taught as if we were all ARCEs, not CM & arch. The homework load was decent (it tapered off over the term), but seemed to be out of pure laziness to grade. a very unprofessional professor!

ARCE 321 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 1:07 pm, Jul 27, 2005		My worst teacher at Poly!! He is very inconsistent & full of himself - the majority of class time he spends telling stories, yet still expects us to learn the scheduled material. The homework load was reasonable, but grading was hard to follow and VERY inconstent between students' work. He is very unorganized and often forgets to bring his lectures & material to class; it's so bad that he'll even test us on concetps he taught in a different class.

ARCE 211 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 11:29 pm, Jun 12, 2005		i'm sorry but this guy was a complete joke. i went to every class and paid attention, yet when it came to homework and test i was so lost. his teaching methods are horrible, and he knows it too (he tried to change his methods for one day when an evaluater was observing the class... so sad) anyways try to avoid at all cost.

ARCE 223 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:06 am, Oct 28, 2004		since 223 is an ARCE only class I felt he really got into the material and presented it rather well. All the homework was from the book, and he teaches right out of the book, taking what the book says and turning it into what he thinks is English, which some people get it, some don't. At the time, I thought he gave lots of homework, but after taking 302 I've changed my mind. That shit was way easier. I highly recommened you do your homework in pairs or groups. Especially if you don't make it to class all the time, it'll help you understand the concepts.

ARCE 305 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 4:18 pm, Jun 5, 2004		Craig was really not a good teacher and even worse joke teller. He pretends to "teach" but all he does is make things really difficult and more confusing than they should be. Hopefully you ARCEs to follow will not have to take him. Masonry, according to him, is simple; but he has no way of conveying it to the students.

ARCE 222 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 8:11 am, Mar 29, 2004		prof. baltimore really isn't such a bad guy. yes, there are corny jokes. yes, sometimes the lectures can be a little over your head. however, if you put in time to understand the material, the class should not be overly difficult. go to office hours: they help.

ARCE 222 Sophomore Grade Earned: F Required (Support) 11:14 pm, Mar 28, 2004		Dont be fooled by his silly jokes, and happy deminer, Baltimore will teach the class like there are only arce's in there, and take whole class periods to go over things that are not going to be on the tests. I could only recomend him if you are an arce. Oh, the book is also really bad.

ARCE 222 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 6:41 pm, Feb 23, 2004		Some of his homeworks are hard as hell. Others are not bad at all. His quizes are an easy extra points as long as you go to class and pay attention and skim the book. No trouble to that. His homework graders are kind of ridiculous when it comes to grading homework but all in all it's not that bad. He is very helpful in his office hours, and very friendly. His tests are pretty straight forward, and his last problem there is a trick. But if you know your material you can easily get a B I think but at least a C. If you pay attention and actually learn the material not just how to do problems, then you will get that last problem. He is a pretty good teacher, and ya he makes some dumb jokes. But he's not as bad as everyone says

ARCE 222 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 6:49 pm, Nov 6, 2003		Craig comes off really biased to Arce majors, so if you are Arce this is good, not if you area Arch or Cm though. He is on the unapproachable side and tends to make tests fairly hard, throughing a trick in the test usually. All in all, if you have to take him, grit your teeth, its only one quarter.

ARCE 222 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 6:51 pm, Aug 13, 2003		Craig's class was terrible! The tests were difficult, there was always a catch and he was not generous with the partial credit. I don't know how I got an A, I felt lost the entire quarter and got a D on the midterm. He expects you to read the sections of your mechanics book before coming to class, and if you can make sense of that book then I dont recommend going. Craig is somewhere between a math geek and a frat jock and the combo makes for some really bad jokes, I guarantee at least one day.

ARCE 222 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 3:00 pm, Mar 24, 2003		Craig fills his class with useless lectures and dumb jokes, if you find yourself confused about a point he made in lecture or stuck on a hw problem basically youre fucked. he is the biggest dick in office hours, especially if he is under pressure to get the tests done or graded. he is not fit to be a teacher because his extreme lack of people skills. his homework load is fair, but his tests dont really represent what we covered in class (even though he says he takes the test questions from the homework). i missed 2 points out of all the homeworks and i got an F on the midterm. watch out for those wicked curves he throws at you for the tests.

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