Sara Strey

4 reviews

Average rating: 4.00

This professor has taught: FIRE120, FIRE198, FIRE298, FIRE398, OURS199, OURS309

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Sara Strey OURS309 Expecting an A+ admin 02/16/2026	Dr. Strey is a very great professor. I have taken her for every FIRE course and can confidently say she's an amazing person who is always willing to help anyone. I will emphasize that finding a good group is very important for these FIRE courses. The most you have to do in her classes is respond to her questions or engage in class. My big advice for the FIRE courses is to find people who are going to do their part of the work consistently. While the course itself is quite easy, its about how much effort you put in to get a meaningful experience.
Sara Strey FIRE120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/30/2025	The class is a very easy class. You are guaranteed an A+ if you do all the work and submit everything. However, this professor is somewhat annoying when people don't participate in class or are unfocused. She requires attendance and makes you go to class. She will be passive aggresive to the class if no one participates or listens to her and she will make it know that she is annoyed. Your team depends on ur whole semester because this class is project based where you do your own research and present it at the end of the semester. Good luck if u get a bad team.
Sara Strey FIRE198 Expecting an A- Anonymous 07/26/2025	I had Professor Strey (she insists you pronounce it like the word "try" with an S at the beginning) for both FIRE120 and FIRE198, and I'm taking her for FIRE298 next semester. I'd recommend her simply due to how easy her class is. FIRE120 was the easiest class to skate by in that I took in my first year; 120 was definitely easier than 198. Professor Strey is very nice and easy to talk to, and very willing to help you out if you ask her. My least favorite thing was that she tends to cold call, but to be fair to her, not a soul wanted to raise their hand all year. I kinda felt bad for her because participation was super low, but she had no idea how to get people to participate besides cold calling. Honestly, her class is really easy and low effort, especially FIRE120, so I would recommend taking her for that. For climate computing, if you don't know what you're doing and get a bad group you could be screwed, because at least somebody needs to understand how to do everything. She tries to cram a lot of the legit climate computing into the last 4-6 weeks, including 2 separate group projects, so beware of that. That caused time pressure and some stress from a class that should probably not be your first priority. Didn't mind Professor Strey overall.
Sara Strey FIRE120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/12/2023	she's nice, but honestly a little too nice at times. the grading in fire120 is set up in a way that you can get greatly penalized for having incompetent teammates (the "team assignments", which comprise a good chunk of your grade, are designed so that each person does a part and then you all submit together and all receive the same grade when almost every part of the assignments are meant to be done independently), and dr. strey is a bit of an enabler when it comes to bad teammates. she's refused to intervene when teammates don't pull their weight, stating that "receiving an email can be jarring" or that "some students don't come into college ready to fly". the teams in fire120 are randomly assigned, so if you get placed in a bad team, good luck. if not, then the class will be a breeze.