I love this woman. She is so amazing and gives really good lectures. For 7C she mainly lectures about gene editing for the last 2-3 weeks, so it is a bit different in class since CRISPR and gene editing are still really new fields compared to everything that Khankan would lecture about. As a person though she is so nice and just radiates queen energy. I would high recommend her.

A real queen. period.

Standard 7C class, i just think Hsiao was underwhelming. Too soft spoken and never very good at explaining answers honestly. Compared to Khankan she was subpar. Very nice though.

Professor Hsiao and Khankan taught LS7C together, and I think they both did a marvelous job as lecturers. They both explain content very well, and it is clear that they want to help students (felt welcome during OH, walk around during class to answers questions, listen to students, etc). However, I loathed LS7C. The entirety of the LS7 series really upsets, frustrates, and discourages me. The exams are not a direct test of your knowledge of the material, the questions are convoluted, and there are often multiple ways to interpret a question. The readings were way too much (why am I teaching myself the material before learning it from the professor??) and the reading based quizzes are ridiculous-- how and why is a student tested on something they taught themselves, that the professor helped with in no way at all? Please note that my point is not the professors; they are both great. It is the structure of this class. I think the LS7 series is horrible at keeping students engaged, and it makes people want to either switch majors or run through the class to just get it over with regardless of whether the students understand the material or not. Also, why are the reading guides due Tuesday, when they cover Thursday's content??? That means that the students have to do a week's worth of homework over the weekend. The structure of LS7 classes seriously needs to be fixed. Moreover, TA's aren't allowed to directly help you during discussion. They don't answer your questions, or tell you if you're right or wrong. They just "ask you questions." TA's should be there to explain things, not leave us to figure it out ourselves. If that were the case, we wouldn't need them, but we do. And when they were on strike, we didn't even have TA's or LA's to help with the discussion worksheet, which was still due. There was 0 explanation provided for the context of the discussion worksheets. Student's are basically on their own in this class.

I spent over 10 hours each week writing my notes and making sure I get everything. Thankfully, the final exam was easier than the midterms, and because of my extensive notes, I was able to find a lot of the answers in them-- I recommend you work really hard during the quarter, because that will allow the final exam to be a not-so-stressful experience (I personally did not study for the final exam thanks to the hours of work I put into the class prior, and got an A- on the final, and A in the class).

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Good luck...

I had Hsiao for the second half of LS 7C. Compared to Khankan, I found her teaching style to be a bit underwhelming. She's very sweet, but I don't feel that her lectures were as engaging. Also, I found that the second half of LS 7C was harder because a lot of the material was no longer taught by the textbook but rather by lecture videos on Launchpad, which I feel weren't specific enough to accommodate for the quiz questions that were being thrown at us. I also did not like how CRISPR was introduced to the class, as I wish there had been a more in-depth explanation as how to navigate the genome browser website. The last few weeks of this class just felt so disorganized and all over the place, and I absolutely hated it. Although, this may not be a flaw of the actual professor herself but just the class set-up. Overall, Hsiao was kind and easy to talk to, and I wasn't afraid to ask her questions. I just wish she had been more detailed in her lectures.

Having Dr. Hsiao as a professor at the end of LS7C was such a relief. Finally done with this series and the professor is super sweet and attentive towards students. The end of the quarter material weren't as difficult as the beginning's, though a bit more vague when taught initially. I found I had to Google a lot of terms to figure out the process of things, but otherwise the class was okay (as good as you'd expect from an LS7 class).
Someone else mentioned that Dr. Hsiao was a bit soft-spoken in comparison to Dr. Khankan, which I agree, but appreciated more. Her personality was a nice fit for the end of the quarter, and either way, she still is a great lecturer.
Also, her mini house tour at the beginning of the quarter was so sweet and wholesome :')
I loved being in her class!