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Ann Hirsch
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Dr. Hirsch is one of the best lecturers I've had here at UCLA. She is really super passionate about the subject and she brings the class candies and fruits when we were having lecturers related to these subjects. She even took us to a trip to the botanical gardens and the green house. Her lectures are really well organized and easy to follow. She is extremely helpful during office hours. The class is really fun in general. The only thing is that it isn't really curved. This shouldn't be a reason you should decide to miss out cause the tests aren't hard at all, although our second midterm was a little confusing cause the questions seem to be a little random. But overall, just studying the lectures for 20min a night will be a sure way to achieve success. There's no way to acquire all the info the night before. Overall, I highly recommend taking professor Hirsch cause it's really fun and it's not hard, it's more interesting. Discussions are a little frustrating sometimes cause the TA gives points for answering and basically whoever raises their hand first gets the point and honestly, some people are just not aggressive in that respect.
Dr. Hirsch is one of the best lecturers I've had here at UCLA. She is really super passionate about the subject and she brings the class candies and fruits when we were having lecturers related to these subjects. She even took us to a trip to the botanical gardens and the green house. Her lectures are really well organized and easy to follow. She is extremely helpful during office hours. The class is really fun in general. The only thing is that it isn't really curved. This shouldn't be a reason you should decide to miss out cause the tests aren't hard at all, although our second midterm was a little confusing cause the questions seem to be a little random. But overall, just studying the lectures for 20min a night will be a sure way to achieve success. There's no way to acquire all the info the night before. Overall, I highly recommend taking professor Hirsch cause it's really fun and it's not hard, it's more interesting. Discussions are a little frustrating sometimes cause the TA gives points for answering and basically whoever raises their hand first gets the point and honestly, some people are just not aggressive in that respect.
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Reply to comment below: "useless lab technique" ? Are you serious? And you complained about presentation? It was f*king free points! It's true that the papers do not appear on exams, so what? Shouldn't you be happy about having less material to study? ------------------------------ At first, I really hated Dr.Hirsch because she goes over stuff REALLY FAST (that why many people record her lectures, including me). But after the midterm I started to like her because it was EASY! Average was about 80 & 10 pt easy extra credit so basically avg was about 90. It was much easier than I thought because the material on the slides contains a lot of detail...but she only tested us on the basics.... Final was open note and THANKS GOODNESS it was open note, you can even use your laptop!!! you can practically find all the answers using spotlight in mac....
Reply to comment below: "useless lab technique" ? Are you serious? And you complained about presentation? It was f*king free points! It's true that the papers do not appear on exams, so what? Shouldn't you be happy about having less material to study? ------------------------------ At first, I really hated Dr.Hirsch because she goes over stuff REALLY FAST (that why many people record her lectures, including me). But after the midterm I started to like her because it was EASY! Average was about 80 & 10 pt easy extra credit so basically avg was about 90. It was much easier than I thought because the material on the slides contains a lot of detail...but she only tested us on the basics.... Final was open note and THANKS GOODNESS it was open note, you can even use your laptop!!! you can practically find all the answers using spotlight in mac....
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Winter 2020 - This was the first quarter the class got changed to lab and lecture together. Two days a week was lecture, and the other two days were 4 hours of lab. yes you spend the entire time in lab. You sit with people the first day and they are your group. You get assigned a plant and you write a proposal on a microbiome experiment relating to that plant. You start on that experiment and do it the entire quarter in lab, while in lecture is different material everyday about soil, plants, etc. There is a midterm week 5 and it is on lecture material. It is hard and focuses on details, chemical structures, and terms. In lab, you continue the experiments and do PCR on bacterial isolates and keep a record of it in a lab notebook. The final was cancelled due to corona, but it was suppose to be open notes and laptop. Instead, we wrote a final paper about our research (10 pages) and a poster we made on our research. Teamwork is a big part of your grade in this course. My team did not work well, so she lowered our grade. Choose your team wisely on day 1. The class is better I think then other mcdb labs. The prof is nice and very kind.
Winter 2020 - This was the first quarter the class got changed to lab and lecture together. Two days a week was lecture, and the other two days were 4 hours of lab. yes you spend the entire time in lab. You sit with people the first day and they are your group. You get assigned a plant and you write a proposal on a microbiome experiment relating to that plant. You start on that experiment and do it the entire quarter in lab, while in lecture is different material everyday about soil, plants, etc. There is a midterm week 5 and it is on lecture material. It is hard and focuses on details, chemical structures, and terms. In lab, you continue the experiments and do PCR on bacterial isolates and keep a record of it in a lab notebook. The final was cancelled due to corona, but it was suppose to be open notes and laptop. Instead, we wrote a final paper about our research (10 pages) and a poster we made on our research. Teamwork is a big part of your grade in this course. My team did not work well, so she lowered our grade. Choose your team wisely on day 1. The class is better I think then other mcdb labs. The prof is nice and very kind.
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