In my opinion, Dr. Tidball was the most engaging professor and the best teacher of 111A. Unlike the other professors, he preferred to give chalkboard lectures and would post note outlines on Canvas for us to fill out. He teaches the second module of the course, which is on muscles, whereas the first module is on neurons/signal transduction and the third module is on sensory systems. Not only is he an exceptionally clear lecturer, he would host Q&A sessions in addition to office hours to help with studying, and he would consistently stay 20 - 30 mins behind each class answering student questions. If you hear bad things about him, know that people 100% only hated on him for how difficult the exam was (I believe the average was in the 70s or 80s). He taught the material well, but this exam was unlike any other physci exam because it actually required you to think vs just memorization like the rest of the physci core, what crazy work right? As far as I know, the people who really understood the content walked away with an A, so do your best to *understand* if you want to do well. He's quite a nice guy and a good teacher, everyone just got tripped up on the exam and premeds can be real haters when they don't get an A.

This class is awful.... I loved PS107 soooo much even tho it was 100x harder. This class was unorganized and clearly an afterthought. It is making me second guess if the physci department even cares about having a good major for its students. There are 3 professors for ONE class, which is divided into 4 units. This wasn't the biggest deal UNTIL it came to the exams. They were basically ALL of our grade in this class and it was horrible having to adapt to different professors' exams. I got a 73% Tidball's exam which is just wild considering i studied so much and learned a lot. The exams were just not fair at all and defintely NOT a reflection of what we learned at alllllll. This goes for all 3 professors but mostly tidball. But for all 3 professors you could just tell they threw together the exam last minute and really didnt care to see if the students learned the million random things they spent all this time teaching us. Its just crazy because i have had wayyyy harder classes and i studied just as hard for this one as I did those ones but this one I just didn't do well in because the professors don't know how to make a fair exam. All the professors were nice and welcoming for the most part but I dont care about that. i want a good teacher with good exams so i can demonstrate how much i learned. oh also theres no homework except a weekly article summary or quiz which probably contributes to the fact that the exams were such a shock all 3 times.

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