Representative Sample of Qualitative Data (MAT 221 Recitation - All Sections)
Written Comments (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021):
This TA was amazing, he helped me a lot with lecture notes and even can teach you new staff if the instructor didn’t cover it yet
Nicholas was a fantastic TA. I learned far more from him than the professor for the class and cannot say enough good things.
Was always available over Email. Thought he was a much better teacher than the actual teacher.
Professor Nick was a top tier TA. He answered every question and gave good examples to practice with during recitation periods. He was also quick to respond to emails asked outside of class time.
He was the only reason I learned anything in this class.
Helped to reinforce the ideas taught initially in the lectures very effectively.
Best TA I had this semester. No complaints.
Great TA, always willing to answer questions, would recommend he be brought back
Nick is nice, Nick is great, Nick is the BEST!
Sometimes the questions I was confused about or unfamiliar with in the lecture were solved patiently and clearly by the TA in class. And, the TA is very professional and logical. So, this MAT recitation is really helpful for my MAT 221 class. Thank you.
This TA is the only reason I passed this course. He is the only reason I learned anything. The lectures were so terrible, but his recitations made it all okay. I only learned anything in his recitation. I want to thank him.
Nice guy who knows his math and is good at communicating that knowledge to others
Nick is a great TA
Nick is fantastic, whenever I didn’t understand the content from lecture, he went through it and it made sense. He was incredible and really helped me make sense of statistics. I definitely would have done a lot worse in this class if I didn’t have this recitation.
Really liked him
Great teacher
This TA did a great job of reviewing course material and helping those with questions. Explains concepts very well. He’s also very chill.
Very well prepared and enthusiastic
Nicholas was great. Even though I won’t do well in the course overall, my quiz average was about a 85 because he really helped me understand the information. Best math TA I’ve had at Syracuse.
Nick is a great TA. He is always patience and always reply my emails on time. It’s my pleasure to have him as my TA for this class. I love him a lot.
Effective TA. Willing to take time to explain things and go over them when confused.
I really like Nick. He really helped make difficult concepts clearer for me. He is very easy to understand and works thru example problems with us so we have enough practice with the concepts. I’m thankful for Nick.
Super helpful! Open to questions and actually approachable.
My recitation for only 55 minutes once a week was way more useful than the instruction given in actual class time. I usually spent the whole week somewhat confused and only needed about 20 minutes in recitation to understand. Great job with explaining material and really good teacher.
Nick was accommodating of questions and extremely thorough in his explanations. I left class with a far better understanding of material that I had struggled with.
I enjoyed having Nick as a TA and learned a lot from him in order to solidify my understanding and properly understand the content that was presented to me
Great teacher, extremely helpful!
He’s good and patient.
Loved this TA very helpful and would explain in different ways if I was confused
Very good TA
I really like this instructor and he is soooooo helpful. I can understand every concepts that I didn’t get on the class after his summary.
The TA did a great job of explaining what we went over in the lectures.
Nick is a homie
Nicholas is a very responsible and helpful teacher.
TA was very helpful and knowledgeable about the class. Easily covered all important lecture points, very helpful in preparation for exams
Thank you, Nick. I will miss you.
He’s class is very effective
He is kind of quite and comes off as unassuming, but he is very fair. He understands the material and is always asking to see if the class understands how the math works.
I learned a lot from the math discussion class, and the TA solve my all questions during the class. Thank you for the whole semester being so nice and patient.
One of the best TAs I’ve had at SU. Made stuff learned in lecture much easier to understand
The TA was extremely knowledgeable and always willing to help students. He always came to class with a plan and written out notes for the class period. The quizzes were fair and never on topics we hadn’t covered in lecture/recitation. The TA was extremely helpful