While the course is in and of itself very practical, the choice of materials during his lectures is haphazard at best. The exams and final are even worse. He tests you on topics he barely talks about, repeating the same redundant topics which again barely appear on his exams. You have been warned.

While Prof. Perona is a nice teacher, his lectures are incredibly boring. He uses power point every day and his voice is very soft, so you can barely hear him. He offers extra credit when he sees the class doing poorly, but it isn't easy extra credit. He's alright, but I wouldn't take him again.

Perona is a good biochemistry professor, but there is just too much material in one quarter. There is no way to know and memorize every little detail in a mechanism. The class averages were ~50 on both midterms, but the final was fair.

Dr. Perona is a great professor. His tests are straighforward, and he is always willing to help students. People who do bad in his class are the people who never opened the Chem book. All you have to do is study...His practice tests are exactly like the real ones. Overall, great professor...challenges students to their full potential.

very boring, used a lot of powerpoint instead of the board, no cheat sheet allowed on the tests, which sucked, sometimes hard to hear

This guy ruined my spring quarter. In addition to all the material that the other classes had to know from the book, we had to know something like 300 ADDITIONAL pages of suppliments in one quarter. Take it from a guy that aces courses easily; I studied my