I never took Calculus in high school and this was my first time and I was so lost in the class. His test was extremely hard for me especially the midterm. For the second midterm, he went over and focused on things that were not even on the midterm. He is a nice guy but he doesn't know how to teach and I went to his office hours too but I just didn't understand the way he explained things.

Wink is terrible at teaching. The lecture material never transferred to the exams or homework. I really relied on reading the textbook and going to TA office hours to learn anything. Material isn't crazy hard, but because he doesn't explain it well it makes the class so much harder than it needs to be.

This one of his first quarters (?) teaching, so Wink constantly tried to make the workload and overall grading easier for students. However, as someone who is horrible at math, the tests proved extremely difficult for me due to the lack of a calculator and the overall explanation of the problems. Practice homework problems mimic the exam format but are much easier. Learning objectives were not very clear aside from a summary of the general topics being covered.

I didn't really go to lectures because I found them to be extremely useless and boring. I learned most of the material through Youtube or the textbook but ended up not doing badly in class. I like his grading where he lets you drop one of the midterms because I slept through the second midterm and got a 0. Mostly I would take this class again anyways because I think there are worse professors out there. Also, he's extremely helpful during office hours for some reason, despite being all over the place in lectures. Bonus points because he is FINE. You get distracted during lectures because you can't take your eyes off of how HANDSOME he is.

I avoided literally everything else in my life through all of winter quarter because: “I had a math test in two weeks.”

This is one of, if not THE, hardest class I’ve taken so far. My performance in 31A was already subpar and when that first midterm came, I ended up crying all the way to my dorm after the test, packing my bags, going back to an empty house for the weekend and just staring at the wall for three days. The average was 50 (my 60-sth was still disappointing) and I had to pick myself up and use every little resource available to finish the class with an okay grade. It is hard, he is not familiar with teaching it’s his first year in the states, and the lectures contain a ridiculous amount of material.
Bright side: he is a strangely charming person and makes the hell of a class a calming experience while he’s there. I don’t want to give his character a bad review, he’s great, but don’t take the class with him if you can (take it with conely, he doesn’t test or cover some of the super convoluted subjects wink does), but if you do, take the review sessions very seriously. If your TA talks about any weird little thing, chances are it’s gonna be on the test and it’s going to be hard.

115A was my first upper div Math class at UCLA, and I felt very lucky taking it with Dr. Wink. He gives detailed explanations to the proofs and really tries to make students understand the content. Sometimes he goes over the materials a little bit fast, but he is very helpful after class/ during office hours and would explain a long proof all over again until you feel okay about it. Quizzes are easy and you get full points for the homework/ quiz section as long as you get 75%+ in homework and quizzes combined. Homework problems are short (compared to 115A with other professors). Midterms and the final are pretty straightforward and similar to the practice problems (he has a very generous curve (A for 85+). One suggestion would be to take good use of his office hours and really try to understand the concepts and proofs.

Wink was an okay professor. Exams were definitely tough, and required a lot of studying. For comparison, I found 31B with Wink a lot harder than 32A and studied close to 3x more for this class compared to the latter. Be prepared for theoretical, proof heavy lectures and a lot of self studying. Wink, however, is really good at office hours so if you utilize your resources wisely and do the extra problems (literally ever single one of them) on the problem sets he gives, the class should be okay as he tends to structure some midterm problems after the provided questions. This was something I only realized towards the end of the course, and definitely regret not doing.

On a side note, if you can get Timothy Smits as your TA for this class, definitely do. Transfer to his section if you can because he is absolutely amazing and I don't think I've ever had a TA as good as Timothy. He explains and simplifies concepts thoroughly and is probably one of the most patient and dedicated TAs at UCLA. I definitely would not have gotten through the class without his help so definitely try to sign up for his discussion if you can.

Professor Wink was honestly delightful. This class wasn't too hard other than the exams, specifically the final exam. He drops the lowest homework grade and the lowest quiz grade. Most of the topics discussed here were fairly easy to grasp, but this does require a good amount of knowledge on graphs and their behaviors!! The quizzes are very easy, he gives you 30 minutes on gradescope but honestly each probably took me ten minutes or less. Homework was a little difficult at times but he was always willing to help!! It also helped that my TA went over simiar problems which btw if you can take it with Thierry as TA do it!!! I enjoyed diff eqs in 33B and this class was very enjoyable as well so I highly recommend!!

Despite all his lower ratings, I think Professor Wink was great. MATH 135 is a very computational class and his lectures talk about the theory behind the equations more so than examples, which is my biggest complaint about Professor Wink. Even worse, the textbook is not the best and there are very few practice problems (especially when talking about Boundary Conditions and Calculus of Variation). I added this course in the end of week 3 so I had to play catch up. However, if you took 33B from a different institution, you might've already learned a good chunk of this course. The first six weeks are about Laplace Transforms, Existence and Uniqueness and Fourier Series, so if your 33B course already discussed this, then you should be set. His homework was a combination of textbook problems and problems he wrote. Professor and our TA, Ryan Wallace who is the GOAT, practically did the homework with us during discussion and office hours. We had four quizzes throughout the quarter which were essentially basic questions from material covered. They were 30 minutes each but could be done in 10-15. The midterms were fairly easy; the first midterm median was a 92% and the second midterm median was a 88%. However, the final was no joke. The Median was a 77% and was a difficult but fair exam. With that being said, the grading is VERY lenient. Their sole grading scheme was 30% Final, 20% Midterm 1, 20% Midterm 2, 10% Quizzes (Lowest Dropped), 19% HW (Lowest Dropped), 1% Professor Evaluation. Specifically, for the HW category, after the lowest was dropped, and 85% overall in the category constituted an 100% in that category (no extra credit for above 85% raw). The homework was also fairly easy, if you understand the material. At the beginning with Laplace Transforms it can be a bit tedious with annoying partial fraction decompositions and integration by parts but towards the end, it only took maybe 2 hours a week. Each homework was also maybe 5-10 questions which I feel is pretty standard. PROFESSOR DOES CURVE! I have no idea what the curve is, I had a 92.8% overall by the end of the quarter and got an A so there might've been anywhere from a slight curve to a larger one. Overall, the MATH 135 material is fun and engaging and I would definitely take another class with Professor Wink again.

This professor is great! Especially 134, take it if u have a chance