This class was hard work, by the end of the quarter I had about 600 flashcards and hundreds of pages of notes. Professor Low is a good lecturer though, she's funny and is clearly interested in the subject. Her tests are reasonable aside from the occasional question on something she skimmed over. Big curve helps, my 84 became an A-.

Lecture slides are word for word from the textbook with little additional detail from the professor. Test questions are on the smallest details not even covered in lecture and exams are over 80% of your grade.

Low is funny but lectures quickly & the material is DENSE. Get ready to rewatch lectures & USE ANKI!!! Multiple choice questions are actually from hell tho so good luck. Curve at the end helps a lot (the class average gets curved to a B-)

She tested the question that she barely mentioned in her lecture, you would never know which info she will test. Exams are extremely difficult and hard to understand.

This class was rough. Exams were impossibly detailed, and lectures were long and dense. Pay attention to every little thing she says out loud during lectures (which are recorded) and don't assume that they won't show up on the exams. The curve is really good though. Take advantage of the TA's office hours and the practice problems from the book.

Her lectures took me 3-4 hr to listen since it was really hard to understand. Although her curve was huge it brought be from a 67% to a C. Grades are mostly determined off your performance on the exams. Exam questions are worded very oddly and can trick you.

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Wow. I literally went to every lecture, did every assignment, and read all the readings, and still got a D on her final. I don't understand what more I could've done. Curve was alright, brought me from a 83 to a B+. This is a tough class, mostly because her test questions are sometimes out of pocket or about the most tiny detail/ fact.

Her exams are crazy specific and she will literally pull things from the slides that were BARELY discussed. You practically have to memorize every single little detail. She explains well, but does move too fast in lectures and doesn't give people the chance to ask questions. There is absolutely no test prep except for weekly quizzes. Very difficult

Tests are insanely difficult. She is very bad at explaining things, lectures are simply a copy and paste of the textbook. Study guides hardly even help, just all around a very difficult course especially being so test heavy with tests that make no sense.

Consider her lectures as introductions to the topics you will be tested for. She is very detail-oriented. Pore over textbook diagrams to understand things thoroughly. You need to be able to explain things to others. Note the structure of her midterm questions and make practice ones of your own. Unfortunately she's the only lecturer for MCDB 6.

she is very bad at explaining things, I went to every lecture, did every reading, and still couldn't get an A. her exam questioning is very misleading and she is quite literally praying your downfall. for your own good do not take her

While I never met Dr. Nguyen in person, she seemed nice, but the class was very complicated for a 1.5 unit class and the grading criteria was not clear. The pre-lab quizzes were so stupid because the questions changed every time you attempted it and were worded badly which caused significant confusion and time to be wasted. I was disappointed tbh

Such an awful class, take it from ANY other professor if you can. Low reads slides word for word in class, taken directly from the textbook. The worst part is the exams (almost the entire grade). All mc questions extremely specific/includes trick questions so even when you know the material, you will probably fail the exams. IDK how anyone passes.

Awful lecturer. All of her lecture notes are copy-pasted from the textbook, and she goes through slides at lightning speed to the point you can't even keep up taking notes. Either she reads the slides directly or she explains complicated points that aren't written down without elaborating anything. You're better off just reading the textbook.

Prof. Low was the most hilarious professor I have taken so far. Although exams were quite hard and sometimes difficult to understand, all you have to do is take good lecture notes and make sure you fully understand each concept taught. I thought she did a pretty good job explaining everything and she made her lectures fun with jokes. I recommend

If you see this comment, then stop thinking about taking her class. Her lectures are so tedious and her PPTs are quite not organized. She only follows a bunch of notes on her PPT during class and speaks so fast. Her exams are unreasonably difficult although exam grades are 90% of the score. She doesn't know how to help students understand biology.

This lab was not difficult content-wise, but it seemed highly disorganized and busy-work based. We accessed course materials on a platform outside of GS, which was inconvenient. It could have been structured better, to suit both students and TAs. Your grade and how time consuming the course will be is 75% dependent on your TA's teaching style.

Most of lab section is spent sitting and waiting for something. The experiments we do are pointless and uninteresting, but every bio major has to take this class at some point. Your TA will determine how easy or hard the research paper assignment is. At least its way easier than 1LL.

I have never been more offended by an academic professional than I have by Professor Low. I'm in her nutrition class and she literally LAUGHED when talking about how some people need to get surgery to help with obesity. She is not sympathetic at all and makes people feel crappy if they're not in perfect shape and eating vegan. -5000/10

I find this woman's lectures to be so impossible to get thru. Like she's one of those professors whose literal voice irks u by the end of the quarter. She doesn't know how to explain concepts to make them easy 2 follow. She'll go on for way too long in lecture just to say "ok," flip the slide, & confuse tf out of u. She ignores raised hands too lol

I found her to be a genuine person which encouraged me to work more and enjoy biology just a little more. Sometimes the accent would trip me up or the material would cause me to daze off in that stuffy room, but she was sweet and had a simple humor that allowed me to enjoy this course more than EEMB7.

The MCDB 1LL course was a mixed bag. TAs were often lost, prelabs were confusing, manual lacked clarity, and the course was disorganized/chaotic. Students were offered a small EC opportunity and GS was regularly updated (2 positives of this class). Email responses were unreliable. Labs could have been engaging if given better instruction/detail.

I had Low online and her lectures were better than Finkelstein, but by no means were they amazing. She asks for very specific answers on her exams. I definitely recommend CLAS, it's a great way to review processes especially before an exam. Put in the work now in animal physiology, because once plant physio hits, it's harder to recover.