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Morris, Jacob

Cumulative GPA: 3.33/4.00 with 9 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 3.00
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 2.67

Physics Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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PHYS 223 Junior Grade Earned: A General Ed 1:48 pm, Apr 8, 2003 Report Evaluation		morris rocks! very informative! i love his lectures...

PHYS 132 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		Dr. Morris is brilliant. The course material must be so basic to him that he sometimes forgets how difficult it could be to someone who is being introduced to it for the first time. This is his only weakness. His tests are very hard and very curved. His test are all conceptual, no number crunching at all. He is very helpful in office hours and also very receptive of your opinions of his class. I really enjoyed Morris' energetic and sometimes spontaneous lectures. I'm very glad I took Morris, and definitely recommend him if your up for a challenge.

PHYS 121 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		I believe Dr. Morris is an excellent teacher. He is very informative about physics and his lectures are quite interesting. His midterms, however, are extremely difficult but luckily he curves them alot. I would recommend taking him to anyone.

PHYS 133 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		This guy's tests are hard. He's really big on theory and not on calculating numbers. He can be really condescendings sometimes. He would often criticize our class telling us how we would do really bad on tests and last quarter's class would be better and there's were easier. He's kinda funny sometimes, makes him interesting to watch. Personally, I thought the class was very hard and I didn't enjoy it, except when he'd make jokes or act really weird.

PHYS 133 Junior Grade Earned: D Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		This was a hard class. If you're used to the physics class where you're given formulas, and you come into tests and plug numbers into them, you're going to get hurt. This guy does NOT use numbers. Calculators are absolutely useless. His tests are REALLY rough, but he curves accordingly. My best recommendation: go to his review sessions before tests. In every one I went to, he gave us at least one of the test questions. His sense of humor is really out there, kind of geeky, but he's a physicist, so I'll forgive him that one.

PHYS 133 Sophomore Grade Earned: D Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		He is a great professor, but not for those who have trouble with conceptualizing everything. I Got a D+ but I deserved it, he was willing to help me I just never took him up on the offer. I wouldn't take him again because he is just too hard for me. His exams are killer and you better know the material inside and out or else. I am retaking 133 now and am seeing everything presented more thoroughly than morris presented it and it makes much more sense. Morris just layed out the theory and didn't bother giving a real-life example compared to something we've experienced before. He also never uses numbers, which I liked, but it was hard keeping track of all the variables.

PHYS 132 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		Very immature. Lacks abilitiy to recognize needs of students. Exams are extremely hard and unlike homework. Always making excuses for not being prepared or being able to offer help on topics. Not a teacher I would reccomend to even the best students



PHYS 131 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 3:26 pm, Aug 9, 1999 Report Evaluation		This was his first quarter teaching studio, which he hates. He told us that he has little say in the cirriculum/HW assignments/test which frustrates him a great deal. He's a funny guy, but not everyone likes that. Good use of class time. Not very helpful in class as far as individual help, but he's very good in office hours. I would've liked to see what he would've done had it not been studio.

PHYS 133 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 5:48 pm, Jun 28, 1999 Report Evaluation		Morris knows a lot about the subject that he teaches, but has problems getting the material across sometimes. He goes into an insane amount of detail about topics that are only partially relavent to the course, then he's behind all the other classes. He invents incredibly difficult questions for the exams, then curves the heck out of them (which is a terribly innacurate way to grade, i think). This is the kind of guy I would like to sit around with and shoot the breeze about Physics, but not to have as an instructor.

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