I don't think Killip could have been much better at lecturing about math. He actually gave us a narrative for the logic behind each new concept so that there was always some background for us to understand it with. My notes always seemed to make sense when I read them, unlike the notes I have taken from other math professors who seem to scribble a bunch of things on the board incoherently. Tests were fair to challenging; the 2nd midterm was too easy, (average 90%) so he made the final kind of hard. But if you can grasp that all the concepts are pretty much analogs to each other, you'll like the class, as it is intellectually satisfying and kinda fun (well at least for me). Also, he made us become familiar with hyperbolic sine and cosine, which was annoying.

At first I didn't like him, maybe because he comes off as kind of a jerk, but he's a really good professor. Maybe I just really liked the material, but this was my favorite math class. The problems on the midterms are fair, and if you understand integration, they are actually pretty fun.

Although somewhat of an asshole in lecture, it's hilarious, and Killip is a very effective professor. His lectures moved pretty fast in the beginning through double and triple integrals, and then slowed down once we got into Green's theorem and curl and divergence. His lectures are worthwhile (I only missed one, unwillingly) so I don't know how well you can do without going to class..but they are relevant for the homework, he gives a lot of clarity. Homework was worth like 20% and he always gives about one or two problems that he creates, and they ALWAYS grade it, and its always hella hard! But luckily I had a TA who would do the hard hw problem every week (so I always went to section as well). The first midterm was a bitch, did a tad above average though. Luckily, he realized this and the second midterm was EXTREMELY fair, almost easy! I got like 15% above avg (29th/184). The final was hard, but still doable. It covered pretty much everything, and luckily not much of Stokes' theorem. He did not really tell us what to study for the final, so you go in there somewhat blindly, but using your own discretion you can decide what not to study. Overall, the material is lame, but its nothing but integration, and its not that bad. I got an A- :)

I personally thought Killip was a GREAT professor. He's really entertaining in class and would make jokes here and there that are actually funny. There's no way you would fall asleep unless you haven't been sleeping for the pass 5 days. As far as grading goes, he's really fair about it. His test and doable, he just expects you to know and understand the material, never gives out any hard problems to do, just tricky. His homework aren't bad, some of the problems that he assigns were actually quite fun! Take him if you can!