Dr. Lew is a genuine sweetheart, charismatic and very intelligent guy. It's evident he cares about his students and wants them to succeed. However, this class operates on breakneck speed and will catch up to you if you fall behind. Watching the lectures and doing the practice midterms/finals over and over again helped the most. DO NOT miss section!

once you get what he means by “dont memorize” its much easier to do well. recognize the patterns and apply them to other contexts. remembering structures and names help but knowing general mechs/ explanations get you further. he makes sure you truly understand what is being taught. exam heavy. very caring humble and accesible outside of class.

Retook the class in the summer. You can see he likes teaching in a smaller classroom to make lectures more effective. Pace is quicker than the winter course, but easier to tackle as a M-R 11am. Earned a substantially better grade than the winter class. Quite literally, just do the problem sets and practice exams a kajillion times.

ts dude is buns

The midterm covered 3 weeks of material, while the final covered the rest of the quarter. Assigned MATLAB hw but wasn't graded. Did not curve - Instead took 5% of grade as 'floating' to put either in final or midterm. It's profs like him and Thrower that make me lose my passion for my major...

This course (and specifically this professor) nearly made me drop my major. Not because of being weeded out, but losing all passion and motivation for the subject. He makes learning based on memorizing, and designs questions deliberately to trip up students. He lacks empathy and encourages failure, rather than success. Good luck. I hate bio now lol