The course is set up pretty well, but is very boring. Lots of little assignments, a few bigger assignments that are pretty easy if you're regularly engaging with the lectures, labs, and smaller assignments, and some participation marks. The participation marks were supposed to come from group work during the labs, but for some reason that didn't seem to be working as intended so none of that really happened. There are lots of readings that are supposed to be mandatory, but weren't super necessary for anything other than completing assignments.

The course covers basic ideas of learning psychology and strategies to optimize learning. There were some strategies that I found very helpful, but a lot of the content felt unhelpful and will almost certainly never be useful in the future.

Mariel was very nice, and really tried to make sure people were grasping the content. She wasn't particularly engaging as a lecturer though, unless she was guiding us through an activity. It kind of felt like she was just talking a lot.

Do all the work. All the little bits add up, so not doing a bunch of them really hurts your mark. It's not a particularly difficult class and it's pretty easy to get an A with minimal effort, so there's no reason to neglect the coursework.