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 Fall 2021, I taught Making Financial Decisions, a Non-BBA level core course at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Here are some nice things my students said about this course.
| 1 | The organization of this course was phenomenal. This is the best I’ve ever seen it from any professor. The slides were very informative and understandable. The practice exams made available to the students was also a plus in this course. |
| 2 | The access to sliced videos really helped me find extensions and explanations when I would come across issues during the homework. The software to do the homework was also pretty nice because of the access to the textbook and hints there too. I enjoyed the lectures because they seemed to go at a great pace for me. If you have the time and desire, there are enough resources available on the course website to do incredibly well in this class and learn a lot. |
| 3 | Professor Qin Lei was an excellent teacher. He really does set students up for success by offering many resources that enable students to learn better. Fixed solutions, video solutions, fixed assignments, and practice exams all were very helpful. |
| 4 | Best course I ever had so far. Covered a variety of fundamental finance concepts. Had a lot of resources for learning. |
| 5 | Amazing content and one of the best professors I ever had (Qin Lei). |
| 6 | Thank you so much Professor, I learned everything I wanted about investing. Your personal stories were amusing as well!!! Also thank you for writing such good exams with straightforward questions. The book is excellent too. |
| 7 | The website was an amazing resource. I have never seen a course this well organized. this is why I can’t think of any improvement. The website had everything and helped you make the most of the resources available. |
| 8 | Qin was very clear about expectations and grading policies. He wanted the best for his students and was extremely helpful with his communication and speed of grading. Overall, an excellent course. |
| 9 | Qin Lei - he’s engaging and enthusiastic about the course material and it radiated to all students. |
| 10 | This is the most structured course I have taken in the university. |
| 11 | I think the course offers a great and thorough introduction to finance, and that it was suitable for students of every background |
| 12 | Professor Lei did an amazing job keeping the material engaging. |
| 13 | The review sessions were very nice. The one note white board was great! It was also very nice to have the sliced lectures and extra videos to better understand the course material. Thanks for a great class! |
| 14 | The course website was great. I was a little overwhelmed at first but having all the course resources on a centralized website was really convenient and made it really easy to keep track of things. I also really appreciated how many resources there were to practice for the exams. I feel like nothing was more effective for my own learning of this material than practice, and practice exercises were easily accessible. I also appreciated the speed of grading and how Qin made himself so available for students. This was overall a very well designed course. |
| 15 | It can’t be improved! Qin Lei was an awesome perspective. |
| 16 | Qin Lei has had countless years of teaching this course and has worked in every way possible to make resources available to students struggling with the material. This course is perfect as is and needs no improvements. |
| 17 | This has been a very helpful course by mathematically conceptualizing and modeling so many incredibly important topics relating to the financial decisions of companies. I will truly retain and build on techniques of valuation and capital structure in my career. |
| 18 | It was very well structured and well taught. |
| 19 | This course is well established and the information is presented in a clear way through lecture slides. The homework is also a great way to check your understanding of the material. |
| 20 | Definitely in Professor Lei’s and the TA’s passion for finance |
| 21 | I gained an understanding of finance that I didn’t have before and was able to apply that understanding in job interviews. |
| 22 | Organization. This class was very organized, specifically the course website. |
| 23 | the website!!!!! |
| 24 | Really organized course website and clear course setting. |
| 25 | Structure, great teaching, well written exams |
| 26 | We have chances to redeem ourselves throughout the course in the different aspects and grade distributions. |
| 27 | The professor was respectful to students |
| 28 | Professor Lei is always patient with students’ question. The exam outline provides a good start point for constructing cheat sheet. The video solution for homework is very helpful |
| 29 | Good organization structure |
| 30 | Strengths of this course were the extra help |
| 31 | I thought the step-by-step examples given during lecture were very helpful in my understanding of how to approach and solve the problems. |
| 32 | i think that all of the available practice problems including the homework and practice exams were helpful |
| 33 | Good balance between the lectures and discussions, they each taught their own thing. |
| 34 | Working through sample problems in class helped increase understanding. As well as having the slides and notes posted on the website, and solutions to homework problems. |
| 35 | The ability to drop one exam. It is a very stressful and high intensity course and I think the ability to drop an exam takes a lot of stress off of people who struggled on the first exam or with one subject |
| 36 | I think that the actual course information was pretty interesting and applied well to my real-world life. |
| 37 | This course was taught very well. |
| 38 | great professor |
| 39 | The amount of resources |
| 40 | everything |
| 41 | The content and the course website |
| 42 | the amount of practice problems available |
| 43 | I think the strengths were the discussion sections and the online homework for practice. |
| 44 | in person discussions |
| 45 | How organized the course is |
| 46 | amount of material we learned was great |
| 47 | sufficient materials. |
| 48 | helpful teacher. |
| 49 | great teaching |
| 50 | Practice exams, homeworks, and trivia |
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