Student Comments

Many students have provided very encouraging comments at the end-of-term evaluations, and here is a collection of comments. Listed below are student comments for just one course.

In Winter B 2021, I taught Financial Modeling, a BBA level elective course at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Here are some nice things my students said about this course.

1 Online actually helped this course a lot by allowing us to see Qin walk through the model and visualize the equation in context.
2 Professor Lei was great! He was extremely accessible to students, and I really appreciated how he had office hours EVERY day for students! I also really liked how he mentioned he was part of the Ross family and understood what we were going through.
3 Amazing teacher was ready to teach!!
4 I thought Qin was very well organized, and everything done was structured which was nice.
5 Small group work was amazing!
6 I liked that lectures were recorded. This made it more manageable for me because I have trouble paying attention for the full class. I also liked working with my team in breakout rooms.
7 Honestly it was a very well put together course all around.
8 Great teacher and class.
9 Extremely insightful course had a great experience
10 The students were held at a high standard and the professor ensured that the students had ample resources outside of the classroom (office hours, etc) to get help
11 The teacher was very prepared and organized on his website.
12 The website has rich resources from recording to extra readings. It was very helpful.
13 Thought the course was great! Gave me a much better understanding and improvement in financial modeling.
14 Professor and his team of TAs are very willing to help during office hours, and that made it a lot easier for us students to follow and understand class material.
15 small group work was great
16 Office hours are super helpful!
17 All the resources available
18 Qin actually cared about his students.
19 Interesting information. Engaging modeling exercises. Having lectures recorded.
20 Ton of modeling exercises.
21 Thought the team structure worked great for the course
22 Professor Lei was extremely knowledgeable and willing to help at any moment. I enjoyed the in class trivia and final project.
23 Strong focus on hands–on knowledge, really practical, loved that.
24 Really enjoyed the team structure of the course and real-world scenarios of the models.
25 Very intense and helpful for modeling in finance
26 This course was very difficult but very helpful. Strengths were the amount learned in a short time.
27 I enjoyed how the class was taught. I liked going into breakout rooms with my team to work on problems.
28 Lecture recordings helped me review the materials.
29 The overall coverage of financial modeling. It gave me a pretty good idea what financial modeling was about
30 lots of material
31 being able to access lecture recordings was very helpful
32 The in-class exercises worked best for me
33 The break out rooms were helpful to be able to try to work together and figure out some of the more difficult problems.
34 It did a great job of having actionable steps to learning the material
35 The lectures were very thorough
36 Teacher answered emails outside of class, breakout rooms in class were good.
37 The trivia was a great way to recap learning!
38 The asynchronous mode was great!
39 The example questions helped with the trivia questions

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