Prof. McGee is the easiest Econometrics professor that you can find at the University of Virginia. People talk about Prof. Fisher (bye-bye, he is now at Google). People talk about Prof. Ruediger (difficult project, pretty nice professor, I've heard). But Prof. McGee, who usually only teaches in the summer, came out of the woodwork and taught the class for us in Fall 2025 (I know I am leaving the review as Summer 2025, but TheCourseForum is bugged and I cannot select Fall 2025).

Prof. McGee is a very, very nice and polite professor. He is a rather boring lecturer, especially considering needing to teach at the time of 9 AM or so. He references Beavis and Butthead and vaccines causing autism as a way to keep his teaching a little bit more fun. However, the way he teaches is simply walking through the question more or less, and you kinda have to just memorize the process. I am writing this review a semester after taking the class, and I cannot tell you how to do most of the tests and regressions. I got an A- in the class, making me kinda dumb, actually. He gives out a lot of fair game questions and a cheat sheet. He posts these fair game questions' answers up before the test, and a lot of the time, the answers are exactly the same as the fair game questions.

Nonetheless, Prof. McGee explains the importance of Econometrics to us and teaches in an alright format. But if you wanna learn it well, you would be better off taking it with Prof. Ruediger, probably.

I took the course in Fall 2025, DO NOT TAKE WITH MCGEE! I left the lecture feeling dumber... which I didn't think was possible. Teaching math concepts through PowerPoint slides is not an effective method for teaching econometrics. I seldom saw him actually do any practice problems in real time, which are crucial to understanding the steps required to solve the various types of problems we'd be presented with. Instead, he would show problems that he already solved (I use the term "solved" very loosely). And then while trying to describe how he solved the problem, he would tend to wander off on these 5-10 minute tangents about random topics that had nothing to do with econometrics whatsoever. About halfway through the course, I just stopped going to lectures and resorted to teaching myself through the textbook.