He is incredibly determined to be not helpful. He makes up nonsensical policies about the class with no basis and hides behind some internal numbers he won't disclose. He completely made up the grading scale at the end and most people including me got curved down. Avoid at all cost.

Not a difficult class and his lectures are thorough. You can expect to get a good grade if you put in the work, but at the cost of a professor who is not approachable and does not respect his students

As long as you are on top of your work, the class is not too difficult and the content is understandable. However, the professor gets frustrated easily and is not approachable. He sometimes takes out his frustration on his students and is not easy to deal with.

Although not an extremely difficult class and the content is quite interesting, Professor Balkind does not respect his students and clearly remains stubborn in his ways. He does not help the students and often seems frustrated.

Class was overall super easy. The weekly quizzes were easy and the final was exactly like the quizzes. The labs were okay for the most part. Even if you didn't get full points they would often give you a lot of extra partial. His lectures were not very helpful for the labs or quizzes. They were just boring and unnecessary. He does seem pretty nice.

Doesn't cares about his students. Easily irritated and set off when asking questions.