There are no words to describe just how awful this course is. Since I took the summer session the content was taught by two grad students, the quality of their presentations and notes were both so bad that it was not worth it for me to haul myself over to the NPB in the summer heat just to get a poor lecture, Instead I relied on Youtube videos entirely to adequately learn the content. The next thing I noticed is that there is a sort of learned helplessness with the homework. There are usually 10-14 absurdly difficult problems that can take up to 3-4 hours of work each week. All the homeworks combined equal only around 5% of the grade, making it questionable the worth of spending that much time each week on fringe problems.

Don't take this class, whatever you do try and take it at a local community college or something. It's cruel and destroyed any interest I had in physics.