She was pretty funny in class but her tests are designed to trick you and she doesn't give study guides are anything. Definitely study off the lectures and not the book.
She is very humorous during lecture which does wonders on boring material such as botany. Overall she is an excellent lecturer, despite the singaporean accent. Her exams were challenging. Study Study Study!
Generally easy class as long as you catch up the powerpoints and memorize them. Its not a lot of memorization and TA covers everything you need to know in sections.
Way too hard of a class for a GE. Difficult quizzes in section every week that everyone does poorly on. Powerpoints are online but dont help much. No study guides given. 2 midterms and cumulative final. Tests are short answer, matching, multiple choice, and true false but if its false you have yo correct it. Avoid this class take dinosaurs instead.
I had her for 1A and 1B (they teach in sections) I love her as a human, not as a teacher. Shes hilarious and cute, but shes difficult to understand and her tests are HORRIBLE! I managed an A only because the class average was a 60%. You need to dedicate your life to this class if you want an A. She is a tough test maker! she tries to trick you.
She is really fun and cute, and makes jokes constantly during class. She does go through the material really quickly, so writing notes of everything she is saying was hard. Study a lot, her test is hard.
Her tests were very hard. But if you studied her slides very well and read the book then you should be fine. Her lectures were pretty funny but not the most informative
I enjoyed lecture, she made the class fun! The tests were straight-forward but be sure you STUDY THE SLIDESHOWS and READ THE BOOK!! It's a lot of information to take in in such a short amount of time but if you study you'll be fine.
If you listen to her lectures really well and grasp what she says then you should be able to pull a B.But READ the book. It enforces what she says because she can be vague at times.Her tests are meant to make you think. But she pulls everything off the slides.If you know the slides inside and out (Literally) then you can get an A. Very fair grader
Her tests are extremely poorly written. They aren't difficult, but rather very unclear. She asks ambiguous questions and even if you answer correctly, unless you give the specific response she is looking for, which is not clear, she marks you wrong. To do well on the tests, instead of learning the material, you have to learn how to take her tests.
Low is fantastic. Originally, I was scared to take class with her because of what I read on here, but I shouldn't have worried. She's been one of my fav's so far. Don't read the book. EVERYTHING you need to know is on the slides and stuff she says in class. Print out the slides & you're good!
She likes to trick you on the tests, she pretty much doesn't test on your knowledge but on how well you can take her tests!! Try to avoid her if you can that is because i believe shes the only intro bio prof for this class
She is really funny and interesting to hear lecture, but I think people are confusing that for a good professor. I like her lectures, but I dont get what I need out of them. She leaves a huge amount out, assuming we somehow already know. Also her tests are brutal- not so much what she asks but how, very difficult wording.
Good interesting lectures, she has a natural ability to hold your attention even when talking about complicated concepts, I find some of the other MCDB lecturers a bit monotonous but Lowe is one of the cooler ones and really funny.
She's so funny! I love her! She made the class extremely entertaining. If you study a lot and make sure you know EVERY TINY detail (not kidding, the smallest detail) on her lecture slides you can get an A.
she's a pretty good professor. she's very entertaining and explains a lot during lecture. she puts a lot of videos online that can be helpful. she's very enthusiastic and loves teaching, he tests are a little hard though.
she is interesting and good at lecturing, but the tests are extremely hard. has fill-in problems on the midterms, tough
Very good teacher. Cares a lot about her students, which shows in lecture and in section. Great advice for grad/med school as well. Great sense of humor!
By far the best lecturer in the MCDB department! The videos she puts up are really helpful, and she is great to talk to 1 on 1. She is hilarious & made micro interesting and really fun. I would take another class with her if offered :D
best mcdb ever
She's HILARIOUS! Her lecture slides her clear and she explains things more than once so that you can understand the concept the second time. Her videos are helpful, too. It makes understanding the mechanisms much easier. She emails back quickly and makes microbiology fun!
Tough, hard to understand. Tests are very hard. Took during summer, very fast, wish I had waited until normal year.
A relatively easy yet interesting class, her method of lecturing and clear explanation made me warm up to a subject I generally avoid. By far the best science general ed.