Wanlin Li
2 courses · 17 reviews
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I really enjoyed taking her class, she explained the topics in a very detailed way and always answered all my questions.
2/22/2025
TBH, she's not the best lecturer. I've left her class feeling more confused than when I walked in. I usually study on my own outside of class since the material itself isn't difficult, but her teaching style tends to make it harder to grasp.She's nice and not a bad professor, just not great at explaining concepts.
1/6/2025
Li isn't an awful teacher, but she can be hard to understand at times and her teaching quality isn't ideal to achieve maximum benefits. I managed to scrape an A out of the class by going to her lectures most of the time, but try to go to Schaefer's class at least once per week. Don't be intimidated by her low rating. You can still do well.
12/25/2024
She is soo overhated. Lectures can be a bit confusing and she sometimes fails to explain hard concepts. But trust me, stick with her, pay attention to her lectures, and attend her help sessions and you will do great in her class. She is also rlly sweet.
12/25/2024
Gives straightforward explanations followed by useful examples step by step but sometimes skips over steps she assumes students already know. Available during office hours or right after lecture to answer questions. Super enthusiastic about math. Not many students attend her lectures so students who do have more opportunities to ask questions.
12/11/2024
She is so sweet and enthusiastic about teaching. The beginning of the year was tough but once she got into the groove of things she was incredibly wonderful. Attendance was not mandatory, but I attended because her lectures are not recorded and after watching recordings, I prefer her style.
12/9/2024
Very difficult to understand what she is saying as she struggles to translate high-level math concepts into something you can understand. She does not do a good job of answering questions and she just jumps right into examples and does not provide any steps to follow or easy ways to understand. TAKE SCHAEFER
11/18/2024
Goes too fast (would be between 6-10 classes ahead of other teachers), doesn't give any useful practice exams and won't give any idea the breakdown just the format, makes in-class midterms have too many questions (acknowledged it and laughed about it), and is just a terrible lecturer who makes the class content more difficult than necessary.
12/18/2023
Wanlin is very sweet but her lectures are proof-heavy and sometimes difficult to keep up with. Homework is difficult and takes a while but is helpful. She posts lecture notes with no examples so they aren't very helpful. Matrix Algebra doesn't have difficult concepts but she often makes them confusing.
12/14/2023
After taking Matrix Algebra with Prof. Li, the experience was ok all things considered. She made mistakes during lectures and didn't even know how to help on some of the WebWork questions (this is a WebWork heavy class). However, she was very helpful during office hours which I really recommend in order to do ok in the class.
1/23/2023
This class was, unequivocally, the worst experience I have had in academia. She made a Piazza and told us she wouldn't be checking it, had extremely harsh grading for homework, and had inconvenient and inaccessible office hours (so you couldn't get help). She is a very, very poor lecturer, and assumed that we knew things we didn't. I felt hopeless.
12/26/2022
going to lectures made me more confused and felt so useless. she set up a piazza and told us she wouldn't be contributing to it, has super inconvenient office hours and no TAs so it's impossible to get help. the homework hasnt been graded since fall break and the final is next week - grading is super inconsistent and way too harsh for weekly hw. :(
12/17/2022
She doesn't really teach very well. She quite literally will solely say what's on the worksheet and the few times that she does explain stuff it's not clear. Additionally, she only grades a few answers out of all the homework problems so if you get one or two wrong you can kiss your grade goodbye. Very awful experience
10/3/2022