Professor Low is hard. Passing is possible, only if you study, study, study! And study right. Her syllabus says to study from her slides, but you should read the book and use her slides as a guide. Tests are SUPER detailed and are usually specific details from the text. You should really focus on this class if you take it.

Low is brilliant, and nice and funny. But she cannot teach, make a good slideshow, or write a test. This is a hard class, and good luck studying for the horribly written tests with her horrible lecture slides. Luckily, she knows its hard and she curves the average of each test(the averages ranged from 50-60%) to a B-. Avoid this class if possible.

tests are so hard and insanely specific. She seems sweet and is funny sometimes ig, but she just reads off the lecture slides and doesn't contribute much to the lecture. online quizzes are easy iykwim but don't boost your grade at all.

Second time with Low. Overhated in my opinion but she still isn't great. Her lectures are extremely boring and dense, but they aren't in unintelligible. The problem is the MC section on exams, which is incredibly convoluted. Need to know everything she says, puts on slide, and digest the concept as well. Hard class overall with not a lot of prep.

Professor Low's class is manageable if you really put in the hard work and effort. I tried really hard for both midterms and received good scores, but it was not easy. She is a sweet person and I did find her lectures interesting (it's important to attend as many as possible). If you put the time in, you can succeed in this class!

Worst prof I've had here. Lectures disorganized/hard to follow, tests insanely specific/difficult no matter how you study. After MT1 I resorted to studying only from the textbook because it was far more helpful than any of her lectures. Unfriendly, acts like your questions are an inconvenience. Made this class WAY harder than it should have been.

WORST PROFESSOR EVER! Avoid at ALL costs. Professor Low is genuinely praying on the downfall of her students. Her lectures are completely copy and pasted from the textbook and she covers very surface level concepts but tests you on random/specific topics. Have a questions? Don't even bother trying to ask (she will either ignore you or flame you).

Professor Low's content was very hard to follow and went very quickly. The tests were pretty hard but doable. Low does record all of her lectures and post them though which was very awesome. There is also no homework besides weekly online classes so the workload is very manageable besides the hours needed to study.

Her lectures had a lot of content and she went really fast but she rarely gave us any take home videos and she was quite funny. The tests are really hard but there is a massive curve. I honestly had to know basically everything she said for her tests. I would recommend reading the book since she follows it pretty closely.

This professor is unprofessional when students approach to ask questions. She is very abrasive and aggressive and is known for making fun of her students during class. I was forced to drop the class because of a conflict with one of the test dates and she has no flexibility and will accuse you of trying to help others cheat.

Lame class that everyone has to take. Everything is very scuffed and you will be unsure of a lot of things. Post-lab and Pre-lab questions suck and are poorly written/wrong. Easy class if you listen to the TAs and follow their directions.

A genuine just joke of a class. Don't take this class seriously or try to learn anything, even if you try it's so unbelievably managed that you won't, period. The only thing redeemable about this class is that everyone gets A's if you turn things on in time, which is a little sad. Hopefully one day UCSB intro bio can be free of Alice and the "team"

Man Dr. Low is so funny but holy butt does she make her tests hard. Majority of questions on midterm and final are fill in the blank or short answer. Maybe five or six multiple choice thrown in at the beginning. The short answer isn't too bad as she sometimes gives partial credit but man the fill in the blanks would be the most obscure enzymes.

Joke is the only good word. No organisation, no clear expectation, a huge mess. Nguyen is not accessible out side of class room, she's like a ghost who tries to haunt down every possible student who needs to unfortunately cross paths with her. Lazy is pretty nice in this case when it comes to exam in which every question was copy pasted.

All the labs and classes were a mess. Most of the time for exams we are left in the dark. Expectations of the material we need to know is unclear and the lectures are a mess. Your grade is basically just based on exams. If you can take the other eemb professor. Their class has better structure and direction.

She really took the challenge of making these weeder classes the most unenjoyable classes

I have her for EEMB 2LL and EEMB 2. She seems like a nice lady at first but her classes have been the worst I've taken here at UCSB. Lab is tons of busy work with unclear instructions, absolute waste of time. Lecture has 3 classes' worth of info smashed into one with cumulative 125 question final. Absolutely drained any passion for learning.

Literally learned nothing this entire course. Full of busy work with terrible organization. There were little to no guidelines on the one single project we were assigned for this class. A major headache of a class and the administration made it so much worse.

She seems nice as a person but honestly it feels like her courses were designed to suck all the interest out of the students. Why do we have so much busy work? Why do we have to spend hours writing essays on a research project we didn't even do?

Just spent three hours in a lab counting animals on a picture and then plugging the results into the same equation over and over... I don't know how she manages to absolutely ruin one of the most interesting/easy lab series

This class is so dumb. The entire class is busy work that no one explains. The final project is even dumber than the in class labs and no one has any idea what we are doing. Please send help.

Soooo unclear about the directions for the research paper assignment + the whole class is just busy work. Don't even get me started on EEMB3, a class with fascinating content that she made terrible by giving a cumulative/in-person final that covers stuff we barely talked about--my quizlet for the class had more than in ochem and biochem combined!!

I don't even know where to start. It's like she intentionally makes her classes, which are supposed to be easy intro bio topics, the most confusing/unclear courses possible. She throws sooooo many busy work assignments at you, including a research paper with the most confusing instructions I've ever seen.

Ugh I thought MCDB lab was disorganized but just wait until you get to EEMB lab. My EEMB T.A. has no idea what's going on (she wasn't helpful), can't answer any of my questions. Like how am I supposed to write my 6pg paper when no one knows shi Istg I just can't with her anymore. Was pretty easy depending on TA. MCDB better than EEMB.