Professor Larkin was very considerate considering Covid and the BLM protests. He genuinely wants you to learn the concepts. Because the quarter was online, the tests were only mathematical, with no conceptual component. Took me a while to figure that out and change my style of note-taking. The tests are very similar to the homework! You can also find homework from past years through google, which are helpful for studying.

Professor Larkin must be the best professor I've had a UCLA so far!! I mean, granted, I'm an astrophysics major taking an astronomy class, so I might be a little biased, but he teaches very well. He answers all questions fully, so no one is confused and he presnet the material very well. More than that, he is a fun teacher. Astro 82 with him must be the only class I've taken where on friday 10th week, when class was getting near over, and he said something to the effect of "Well I haven't been able to go over this last subject as thoroughly as I wanted to, oh well..." I was actually tempted to go to office hours for the sole purpose of asking what else he was going to talk about. All in all, a great teacher!