Professor
Carla Koehler
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Winter 2020 - This is both a review, and also a survival guide for Carlas class with everything I wish I had known prior to the class. The course is not necessarily difficult but is very dense in material which is especially difficult to manage with other upper division courses. Carlas lectures are scattered and disorganized, making it very difficult to learn and apply the knowledge. Everyone failed the first midterm (average a 64) and she blamed it on our study habits, not her own INABILITY to relay the information. The way she talks is simply painful to listen to as she talks in scattered sentences. Her handwriting is far from legible, so you'll want to go back and listen to the bruin cast to take your own notes. She told our class we did not need to memorize certain concepts/pathways for the midterm (methionine pathway... just memorize it you'll thank me later) and put them on the midterm anyways (so you cant trust anything she says ). The only way to survive Carlas portion of the class is to memorize everything, even the stuff she says not to memorize. Go to office hours and try to listen through the pain, she might give away some test pointers. I am very frustrated with her as a professor and her TAs who also are disorganized. You are better off self teaching if you have the self discipline required.
Winter 2020 - This is both a review, and also a survival guide for Carlas class with everything I wish I had known prior to the class. The course is not necessarily difficult but is very dense in material which is especially difficult to manage with other upper division courses. Carlas lectures are scattered and disorganized, making it very difficult to learn and apply the knowledge. Everyone failed the first midterm (average a 64) and she blamed it on our study habits, not her own INABILITY to relay the information. The way she talks is simply painful to listen to as she talks in scattered sentences. Her handwriting is far from legible, so you'll want to go back and listen to the bruin cast to take your own notes. She told our class we did not need to memorize certain concepts/pathways for the midterm (methionine pathway... just memorize it you'll thank me later) and put them on the midterm anyways (so you cant trust anything she says ). The only way to survive Carlas portion of the class is to memorize everything, even the stuff she says not to memorize. Go to office hours and try to listen through the pain, she might give away some test pointers. I am very frustrated with her as a professor and her TAs who also are disorganized. You are better off self teaching if you have the self discipline required.
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