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Originally Posted by Red Mile Style
Thanks for the kind words...
Seriously, I almost failed Anthro 201 with him, and I'm not the only one who thinks that he's tough. My roomate dropped it and there were a lot of people in the class that did really bad. Maybe he's easier in the higher levels, but I think he curved the grades at the end, which totally saved me. I remember on his midterm I looked at my mark and it said 38, and I thought that was out of the 50 questions, but it was my percent! I didn't even find this out until a week before the final when my mark going in was WAY lower than I thought, so I had to bust my ass to pass. Lowest mark in university.
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Well I just had a look at my transcript to see what course it was I took with him, and it was in fact Anthro 201 also (so of no use to this specific thread after all), in fall 1999. I do remember the first half of the course and midterm on human evolution was taught by someone else, but Keating did the second half on primatology. And all you had to do was to sit through videos of him with monkeys. The final multiple choice exam was a breeze; I really don't know why you found it so hard. I don't even remember studying for it (I ended up with an A-). At one point in the exam I went up to clarify one of the questions with him, and he said to me "the one you've got circled is right".
I did enjoy the course though, so maybe that is why I did well. I recall before the exam started being very annoying when some ditzy girls in front of me said 'what is this guy's name again?' I felt like shouting at them, "don't you watch the Discovery channel? This is Brian fricking Keating!" So I guess I was a bit of a nerd in that regard. I was after all a zoology major. But I put no effort into that course and got a pretty good mark, and other courses I worked my ass off in and got B's.
But advising someone not to take a course with him because it was hard? Mindboggling to me.