Information was interesting, but it was presented horribly and the assignments were marked so rough and took so long to complete that it wasn't enjoyable.

The information was not explained on slides properly, some were obviously made with AI, and the labs had basically nothing to do with the material. I don't think I learned anything in this class. The lab reports had necessarily strict page limits that forced you to cut information to fit it in, and it was impossible to get a good grade on them because of how little information on marking they gave.

The prof was super dismissive of students, ignoring raised hands of specific individuals, and did not provide useful answers when you asked her questions. The questions she put on tests did not reflect most of the material and focused on things she said wouldn't be tested or were said once in passing and never mentioned again. She refused to post lecture recordings until a week after they happened, and kept introducing topics in lecture, saying "we would get to it later" and then never explaining it.

Avoid this professor if you can. This class is marked hard but its do-able; the professor just made it much worse to understand/study the material.

Genuinely my favourite biology class I've taken at Mac. The content is very interesting, the lecture slides were both very aesthetically pleasing and well organized/easy to comprehend. Some asynchronous lectures were very long, but interesting all the same. Tests were all multiple choice and were very very fair.

Dr. Scott is a very encouraging, approachable, kind prof who clearly wants the best for his students. His lectures were engaging and interesting and can he please teach the rest of the biology department how to make nice slides and organize their classes?

Keep on top of the lecture videos (especially since some were quite long, trying to tackle them all right before a test would be difficult.)