The first midterm was easy and required very little reading, but the second one covered much more material and you HAD to have read the book. The final had many questions from the previous midterms so go to office hours. Thayer cares about her students- she curved final grades, and you will do well in this class if you put in the work.

Barbara presents very dense, repetitive lectures and does not present the material well. Takes super interesting material and makes it boring, difficult, and stressful. She expects students to remember very in depth, precise things for the tests and blames the students for not reading the text when the class average was very low for exams, not her.

Crams too much information in her lectures. Tests are difficult and cover vague material from textbook and lecture. Made it hard to appreciate the topic.

Super dense lecture and textbook. 2 Midterms, 1 cumulative final. Super in depth tests, would not recommend taking.