No prof yet?

[u/Royal_Storage_378]

hi everybody, hope all is well before the fall term at uw

just wanted to ask if this is normal? I have profs for every other course except this one and wanted to know when I would know my profs for calc (especially since im not too great at calc) and want to practice a bit

thanks so much for the response, have a good day/night

[u/djao]

Sessional instructors at Waterloo recently unionized, and fall term is the first term implementing the new bargaining agreement provisions. First year math is especially impacted since so many first year math courses are taught by sessional instructors. Just be patient while they sort it out.

[u/RandomChickenWing1 → u/djao]

Came to add to this — grad students, like PhD students, have a teaching requirement and courses like this one are sometimes taught by PhD students. There’s lots of funding packages and “who gets what” to handle, so it can take a bit of time. I was an instructor for this exact course as a PhD student so. :)

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/RandomChickenWing1]

oh perfect, thanks for your response

- happy first year (for now)

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/djao]

thanks so much, I didnt know that wow!

[u/FruitAlternative7280]

Brotha it doesn’t matter, just wait till the term starts and study hard when it does. It isn’t that big of a deal the curriculum is the same regardless of the prof for these first year courses.

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/FruitAlternative7280]

your right bro, appreciate it

[u/Physical-Engineer-14]

I also dont have a prof for this course...

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/Physical-Engineer-14]

we'll get it dw

[u/Unique-Quit-9731]

Same

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/Unique-Quit-9731]

im sure their working on it

[u/Banmaster2007]

This almost definitely means it's going to be a grad student, I would suggest switching to Dan or Owen's lectures if possible (I checked and they have a couple open). I took this class with a grad student and then took 128 with Dan, it felt more then 10x easier and we could actually ask questions and get answers. I'm not saying all grad students are going to be bad I've just had a bad experience, but more than that someone like Dan or Owen have a ton of experience teaching which the grad students can't possibly have.

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/Banmaster2007]

oh okay, thank you so much for that!

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/Banmaster2007]

Update I switched to Dan, thanks for the help!

[u/Thatmemethatdies]

If you can, switch over to Dan's lecture once your instructors are announced

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/Thatmemethatdies]

will try, thank you!

[u/Royal_Storage_378 → u/Royal_Storage_378]

Update, I switched to Dan, thanks for the heads up

[u/Reasonable-MessRedux]

Coming this fall. AI profs. I told you.