Great class and great professor. I highly recommend it. It's not as easy as some people make it out to be. Attending lectures will help a lot and reading the course reader and study guide will help too. Esdin is very easy and interesting to listen to. He's a great professor and the class is very interesting! Definitely take it!! The TA Daniel was excellent too!

Esdin is a great guy, totally passionate about diet and exercise for PhySci5. It's an early ass class but full of athletes so easy A.

Selling the course reader for Phy Sci 5, Spring 2013 edtion. Email me at lnt009@ucd.edu if you're interested. It's like new and has absolutely no marks on it. Save yourself the walk to the course reader store in westwood cause it's not sold in Ackerman.

It was a great class overall. great GE class to take selling the course reader (both). pratically new, just some words written in it. contact me amanda.mrls@yahoo.com

Course Taken: LS 2

I had Esdin/Bok for LS 2 and even though Esdin spoke VERY quickly with his heavy accent during lectures, he was a good professor overall. I thought his exams were alright, some of the questions were a little ridiculous but the averages came out to a 70%. In lecture, the best way to take notes is to save the lecture slides that he posts online and then type notes directly onto them.

The lab portion of this class (which they are omitting in the future) was a HUGE portion of our grade, and since everyone did so well in it, I'm not sure if the class was actually curved in the end. The best way to study for his exams is to organize his lecture notes since your notes from class might be difficult to follow and just memorize them. The TA's even admit that this is one of the heaviest LS classes with regards to the amount of information you have to know, so just know the slides by heart. Study the slides and you'll be fine.

--LS2--

So this guy is fantastic - clear notes, exams strictly based on lectures instead of that gargantuan book - it's all good.

LS2 is normally regarded as a difficult class by the general populous, but he makes it easier. If you want to learn, write out all of his slides into conceptual pictures (e.g. process of the digestive system), and you are sure to get a good grade. His first exam is bad, but the second one is extremely fair. Study lots for the final, though not cumulative, it can get fairly detailed. Very personable, excellent professor.

Dr. Esdin is a good lecturer, he explains things well and his slides help. He doesn't post them consistently though. He'll post slides from certain weeks but not others. If you're taking PhySci5, it's a lot of memorization and really important to know all the little details both in the lectures and reader, but if you do know them, it's pretty easy to do well on the midterm and final which are both multiple choice.

Selling:
PhySci 5 course reader(Spring2015)
workbook
iprofile
for $60
message me if you are interested betty130127@gmail.com

Has Esdin for LS2 AND PhySci5. Took PhySci5 for fun. I'm not particularly fond of Esdin's exams, he's a great lecturer, though.

E-mail me if you want the Winter 2014 Course Reader and iProfile (expires Jan 2015)
danceisthesolution@yahoo.com

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I am selling the Phy Sci 5 Course Reader/Workbook/iProfile for SPRING 2014, all for $85. They are BRAND NEW (I just dropped the class) and they retail for $102 combined. I can also meet up with you on campus, which would save you a trip to the course reader store, so this is a deal! Contact me at eteng14@gmail.com if you're interested.