Professor
Danielle Schmitt
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - Overall, Dr. Schmitt is a solid lecturer. Her slides make sense, the material we learn feel relevant, the class structure feels fair, and the exams actually feel interesting because they take real world research and incorporate it into the class nicely. However, I still did not enjoy this class because of the professor. There's a certain attitude about the professor that feels very off and makes it seem like she doesn't want to be there. Some profs are very obviously not interested in lecturing and only care about their research but Schmitt doesn't even seem to enjoy running a research lab or science in general. Also, you're allowed a cheatsheet for the midterm and final since there's so much content that is covered but I would've rather had some sort of metabolic map so my hand wouldn't cramp up while writing the cheat sheet. The final cheat sheet took me 10 hours to make and I had to pull an all nighter. Seems excessive but the sheer amount of content covered required you to write extremely small if you want to fit everything in there. Also, since it is metabolism, it isn't like other classes where you'd be able to reason through it. It's either you have the word dihydroxyacetone on the cheat sheet or you don't. Structure: Midterms are worth around 15% and the final around 25%. There are no +/-. Discussion worksheet (graded on accuracy) and tutorial worksheet (graded on completion) every week with other misc. assignments like seminars. Averages for the midterms were ~70 and ~90
Spring 2025 - Overall, Dr. Schmitt is a solid lecturer. Her slides make sense, the material we learn feel relevant, the class structure feels fair, and the exams actually feel interesting because they take real world research and incorporate it into the class nicely. However, I still did not enjoy this class because of the professor. There's a certain attitude about the professor that feels very off and makes it seem like she doesn't want to be there. Some profs are very obviously not interested in lecturing and only care about their research but Schmitt doesn't even seem to enjoy running a research lab or science in general. Also, you're allowed a cheatsheet for the midterm and final since there's so much content that is covered but I would've rather had some sort of metabolic map so my hand wouldn't cramp up while writing the cheat sheet. The final cheat sheet took me 10 hours to make and I had to pull an all nighter. Seems excessive but the sheer amount of content covered required you to write extremely small if you want to fit everything in there. Also, since it is metabolism, it isn't like other classes where you'd be able to reason through it. It's either you have the word dihydroxyacetone on the cheat sheet or you don't. Structure: Midterms are worth around 15% and the final around 25%. There are no +/-. Discussion worksheet (graded on accuracy) and tutorial worksheet (graded on completion) every week with other misc. assignments like seminars. Averages for the midterms were ~70 and ~90
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