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 A 2014, I taught Options and Futures in Corporate Decision Making, an MBA level elective course at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Here are some nice things my students said about this course.
| 1 | This course is really awesome. Professor Qin Lei is excellent and always willing to help. I really appreciate this learning experience. |
| 2 | This is the class with the most prepared professor I have had. It is great to see this type of involvement from a professor. Definitively makes the learning easier. Love the class. |
| 3 | Never seen a prof. more prepared for the course than prof. Lei. |
| 4 | The class is very structured and professor is very good at teaching. Provides a lot time outside class with office-hours and review sessions. |
| 5 | The professor is really well-prepared and organized in lecture. He provided a lot of materials to learn. |
| 6 | It was a great course! After it I became even more interested in finance! |
| 7 | Mathematical models were highly emphasized and explained very clearly |
| 8 | You did outstanding job teaching a dry subject in a very entertaining way. Thank you for the class! |
| 9 | I think the homework assignment and the project are quite helpful for further understanding the topics in classes. And the Virtual Trade platform is more than a gift! |
| 10 | the prof cares about students so much!! helpful and warmhearted |
| 11 | I think the course was very good overall. It’s a bit rigorous but was good. |
| 12 | This is the only class i have given all 5’s to. Very well done! |
| 13 | great lecture with clear explanations. Thanks |
| 14 | The instructor was genuinely enthusiastic about the topic and it showed in his teaching. He was really prompt in helping students and made the topics interesting and easy to follow. |
| 15 | I think everything went well in this course: the professor is incredibly well-prepared and he is really good at making complicated concepts straightforward. For me, additional materials he gave us (including articles, excel files, and videos) helped me to enjoy learning as well. |
| 16 | I learnt a lot in this course. Professor Lei was amazing and taught at a pace which allowed everyone to grasp the material effectively. |
| 17 | Well-designed course, selected homework problems relevant to learning objectives, identified pertinent textbook sections rather than entire chapters, in-class trivia motivated students to prepare for class, class did not include too much material |
| 18 | Instructor was very energetic, engaging, and very passionate about class. The course readings, hw, trivia, and practical projects all helped reinforce the material. Instructor was very well organized and his website is a very effective course management/learning tool. A+! |
| 19 | 1) Adequate student-instructor meetings to clear doubts 2) Practical project was helpful in tying everything together |
| 20 | I found the lectures very interesting and challenging. I don’t have a lot of background on the subject but I felt like I could still follow along and then work at my own pace outside of class on the questions. I liked that the trivia questions counted towards our grade and weren’t too easy, I think it was good motivation to pay attention in class and I was always very proud when I checked back and realized that I got a trivia question correct! |
| 21 | Ample resources to practice the futures and options. Ability to try out buying futures and options on the virtual trading platform was great. |
| 22 | The teaching style and approach kept me interested. The addition of the trading application to test theories learned in class was a help accommodating those with learning styles that suit action. Overall very good. |
| 23 | Professor Qin was extremely helpful and willing to meet outside of office hours to discuss any topic from the class. The custom website was actually much better than CTools.The layout was easy to navigate and made finding needed resources easy. |
| 24 | I appreciated the breadth and variety of resources the instructor used for this course. The online trivia, the class readings, the excel model tools, all were very helpful. Also, the professor was very easy to access outside of class. |
| 25 | Website for the course was very helpful. And all the course materials were really helpful. |
| 26 | Professor Lei clearly cares about his students and cares about his teaching obligations. |
| 27 | - Very structure class - Lots of resources to prepare the class and study - Great professor! |
| 28 | Great course. Highly recommend anyone interested in options and futures to take it up. |
| 29 | Impressed with prof’s preparation for the course. |
| 30 | instructor is energetic |
| 31 | Excellent course. Taught very well! |
| 32 | Everything is beyond my expectation. |
| 33 | Maybe make the HW a graded portion of the class. Not much else needs improment |
| 34 | Great course, great professor. |
| 35 | Great course notes! |
| 36 | Well rounded class |
| 37 | Overall a great class. Very interesting with takeaways for future work and personal finance uses. |
| 38 | Excellent course, will recommend others to take it. |
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