COMS W4901

The emphasis in this course is put on learning and developing your idea, not completing some worksheets. The workload is centered around your startup idea and growing it. With that being said, you will be graded on your final presentation, midterm presentation, and participation.

Best class you can take at Columbia and that is not a joke. Didn't think I would learn so much in such a short amount of time. Every lecture is interesting as you have very accomplished guest speakers giving you trade secrets. You will walk out of the class with a smile every day.

More than 20 hours a week for 3 credits.

This review is for the course project COMS E6901. Apoorv Agarwal is the most unprofessional person to work with. He has absolutely no proper schedules when it comes to working with project students, and is very demanding and inconsiderate towards other priorities such as coursework. His goals kept shifting during the project and was different from what he discussed at the start. He is very disrespectful and rude. He is quick to blame without proof and sends impolite emails without giving you a chance to get back and reply. The meetings that are scheduled, usually left me waiting. He would change deadlines as per convenience and would expect you to work through vacations, and entire nights. In spite of communicating results, etc through emails and documentations, he ignores those and continues to ask for the same multiple times, which is annoying for the other person. He keeps shooting work giving short notices and when asked for some time due to other coursework conflict, he would intimidate saying grades would be affected. He asked for writeup, other questions about the work I did after the semester ended. These are not clarifications but those which had been explained during the semester. Though my deliverables were timely and documentation to support it, he still had many questions, often asked with sarcasm and insults. He gets a lot of his work done from students for his P…