Professor
Erik Petigura
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Spring 2020 - astro 3 with professor petigura was amazing! I liked his lectures and the workload wasn't bad and the material was interesting but above all he was really helpful and caring throughout the entire quarter. our midterm was 24 hr and open note; our final was optional, 48 hr, open note, no harm. the exams were kinda hard though. I also liked that he recorded lectures and uploaded them on ccle. labs were fine, a bit difficult sometimes but the ta (alec) helped a lot. I wouldn't say the class is an easy a but it's also not super intense or anything. either way, astronomy is interesting as hell and I would definitely recommend :)
Spring 2020 - astro 3 with professor petigura was amazing! I liked his lectures and the workload wasn't bad and the material was interesting but above all he was really helpful and caring throughout the entire quarter. our midterm was 24 hr and open note; our final was optional, 48 hr, open note, no harm. the exams were kinda hard though. I also liked that he recorded lectures and uploaded them on ccle. labs were fine, a bit difficult sometimes but the ta (alec) helped a lot. I wouldn't say the class is an easy a but it's also not super intense or anything. either way, astronomy is interesting as hell and I would definitely recommend :)
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Fall 2023 - The material is genuinely impossible to fully learn, but if you follow instructions well enough, you can get the grade without learning; this is a class for people trying to knock off GEs and not learn anything. This first quarter is taught primarily by Petigura, who's a pretty good lecturer. The main issue is that lecture and discussion are almost two separate classes. There is a quiz (online, half multiple-choice and half free-response) every other week, based on the lecture material—these quizzes are not easy at all. Everything else (majority of the grade) is in discussion, and not related to the lecture material. There are reading assignments (read something, write a reflection), basic labs, and then a research paper. Some of these assignments can take a while and feel like busy work, but most TAs grade them on completion if you try hard enough. The professors feel pretty useless because they're not involved in the discussion assignments, and the amount of help your TAs provide varies (mine gave almost no instruction, but others were super explicit in their expectations).
Fall 2023 - The material is genuinely impossible to fully learn, but if you follow instructions well enough, you can get the grade without learning; this is a class for people trying to knock off GEs and not learn anything. This first quarter is taught primarily by Petigura, who's a pretty good lecturer. The main issue is that lecture and discussion are almost two separate classes. There is a quiz (online, half multiple-choice and half free-response) every other week, based on the lecture material—these quizzes are not easy at all. Everything else (majority of the grade) is in discussion, and not related to the lecture material. There are reading assignments (read something, write a reflection), basic labs, and then a research paper. Some of these assignments can take a while and feel like busy work, but most TAs grade them on completion if you try hard enough. The professors feel pretty useless because they're not involved in the discussion assignments, and the amount of help your TAs provide varies (mine gave almost no instruction, but others were super explicit in their expectations).
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Winter 2022 - If I had a shotgun stuck up the roof of my mouth and my whole family hanging from a tall tower ready to be released so their bodies splatters across the road, I would still not take ANY class with this evil demon Petigura. This guy is responsible for the mental, psychological, and physical suffering of MILLIONS of innocent lives in this world. His lectures are inherently evil and he seeks to pollute your mind with disgusting, useless information to only screw you up on the quiz with questions you've never seen before. His goal in life, his purpose in this world, is to morally degrade students. Instead of doing other things to add value to society and make the Earth a better place, Petigura voluntarily chooses to inhumanely destroy the lives of millions of innocent children, as it brings him joy to see his students fail in life. He goes to sleep every night knowing he permanently scarred millions of students on the planet with his ridiculous lectures and quizzes. If you understand you have responsibilities to fulfill, duties to perform, and values to add to this society, DO NOT get within 10 miles of this guy, because he will pollute your minds with his corrupt, degenerate, and evil philosophy.
Winter 2022 - If I had a shotgun stuck up the roof of my mouth and my whole family hanging from a tall tower ready to be released so their bodies splatters across the road, I would still not take ANY class with this evil demon Petigura. This guy is responsible for the mental, psychological, and physical suffering of MILLIONS of innocent lives in this world. His lectures are inherently evil and he seeks to pollute your mind with disgusting, useless information to only screw you up on the quiz with questions you've never seen before. His goal in life, his purpose in this world, is to morally degrade students. Instead of doing other things to add value to society and make the Earth a better place, Petigura voluntarily chooses to inhumanely destroy the lives of millions of innocent children, as it brings him joy to see his students fail in life. He goes to sleep every night knowing he permanently scarred millions of students on the planet with his ridiculous lectures and quizzes. If you understand you have responsibilities to fulfill, duties to perform, and values to add to this society, DO NOT get within 10 miles of this guy, because he will pollute your minds with his corrupt, degenerate, and evil philosophy.
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