are so fascinating.

Context: at the end of every semester, we get asked to rate our courses on various scales (e.g. number of hours per week, professor's care for the students, overall feel for the course). These statistics then get compiled into one site where all CMU students can see. I find this stuff extremely interesting, and I've been going ahead and finding patterns in the data (specifically Math and CS courses) because why not.

Some of the interesting things that I've found:

• In the math department, six entries were rated a perfect 5/5; two of them were two different sections of Po's Putnam Seminar (namely Monday and Friday). In the CS department, this number increases to 11, although five of them are for the same course (15437 Web Application Development). The lowest score in the math department was 2.48 and in the CS department was 2.60; for obvious reasons, I will not state which classes these were.
• In math, the highest number of hours per week for any course belongs to 21690 Methods of Optimization at 14.33 hours per week. Sixty-one different entries from twenty-nine different courses top this in the CS department, with top honors going to 15619 Cloud Computing Section E at 26.33 hours per week. Conclusion: i need to not slack off as much next semester.
• Two classes in the mathematics department reached full 100% participation, namely 21300 Basic Logic (Dubai) and 21470 Selected Topics in Analysis. Interestingly enough, the next two classes in this order - 21632 Introduction to Differential Equations and 21235 Math Studies Analysis I - were both taught by the same professor. (These classes had overall ratings of 4.86 and 4.92 respectively. He's awesome.)
• There are a number of main courses in the CS department for which the Dubai version of the course has a higher rating than that of the Pittsburgh version. Examples of this include 15112 Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science, 15150 Principles of Functional Programming, 15213 Introduction to Computer Systems, and 15451 Algorithm Design and Analysis. Anyone familiar with CMU CS knows that these are major courses within the CS curriculum, so this is pretty strange.

On an unrelated note, CMIMC is only a month away!

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