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The CPR assignments are absolute trash. You basically have to write a scientific paper based on hypothetical data and arguments. Everything is busy work, and I learned nothing new. You learn literally everything else in this class from your LS lectures and upper division classes. The TAs don't let you leave early, and my TA spent way too much time talking about stuff that everyone already knew.

CPR (Calibrated Peer Review) takes up a lot of time in this class and is completely useless

Solid class

pretty chill class. If you do all the pre and post lab work (not hard) and try on the writing assignments you will get an A. the final kinda sucked (weird questions and not enough time) but the labs were fun and enjoyable and the LAs give lots of help.

Honestly surprised by the amount of people who say the labs are boring, I found them to be interesting, informative, and thoughtfully set up. The professor is a very sweet guy and you can tell he put a lot of work into creating these labs for his students. The workload is very manageable and I think you'll learn skills that would be important for other classes/work in the field.

It's honestly a very easy class. They give so much buffer. The labs are quite fun! Unfortunately quite a few of our labs got moved online... but I did like the ones that we got to do in person. Pfluegl is very chill, although I feel bad for him when he sees how 50%+ of the class is either very confused and/or not paying attention and choosing random answers. He's the only prof that teaches 23L (or 7L as they say; the NeW nAmE) so you won't get to choose regardless haha. Just put in some effort, be nice to your peers, don't write trashy papers that make your peers' lives a million times harder, and have fun!

They were alright. Zoom lectures were a good review of the lab manual people were supposed to be reading. Pfluegl appeared distraught that half the students weren't paying attention, as indicated in people picking whatever they thought seemed decent in the Clickers, but otherwise questions should have been easy.

I did exceptionally bad on Clickers, but I still got an A due to generous grading. I also barely passed my individual exam threshold for a raw A, but all's right in the end.

I actually enjoyed the lab aspect of this class. Assuming you borrow a lab coat, a lot of the procedures taught, particularly the DNA stuff and structure of lab papers, are applicable to research settings and paired well when learning 7C material, though they don't have to be taken at the same time. My TA was wonderful and my LAs went around clarifying confusing concepts on the worksheets, which meant most of us painlessly earned all the points for our work. Good class, little work outside of it. Just don't forget to submit post-lab quizzes and do your paper according to the Perceptive guidelines and it's a breeze.

Pfluegl was okay, his lectures (on Zoom, but attendance was mandatory via iClicker) were pretty boring. Lectures just went over what the next week's lab was going to be, like the concepts and procedure. The labs were a nice intro to different lab techniques and they were overall pretty easy, especially if you read the lab manual ahead of time and understand what you're doing. There are 3 easy writing assignments throughout the quarter to get used to how to write a scientific paper; the first 2 are only half (first one is the first half of a typical scientific paper, second is the second half of a typical paper) to get used to each section, and then the 3rd puts them together. The final has a group phase and an individual phase, both of which were very easy.