Professor
Patricia Cheng
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Fall 2021 - Professor Cheng definitely cares about her students and wants to make sure we're prepared and capable of completing the final project, but sometimes her advice/insights/notes on these projects are difficult to understand. My group initially thought we had a solid experiment idea and Professor Cheng approved it, then later on she discouraged us from our method and tried to steer our project in a different direction, so it would've been nice to have clearer expectations before committing to a study design. The nice aspect of this class is that you're given a lot of freedom to brainstorm experiment ideas and conduct your own study (within the limitations of the class), and the workload isn't too bad as long as your group splits the work equally. There's also no exams! Overall, it's a decent class and a good introduction to the experimental process
Fall 2021 - Professor Cheng definitely cares about her students and wants to make sure we're prepared and capable of completing the final project, but sometimes her advice/insights/notes on these projects are difficult to understand. My group initially thought we had a solid experiment idea and Professor Cheng approved it, then later on she discouraged us from our method and tried to steer our project in a different direction, so it would've been nice to have clearer expectations before committing to a study design. The nice aspect of this class is that you're given a lot of freedom to brainstorm experiment ideas and conduct your own study (within the limitations of the class), and the workload isn't too bad as long as your group splits the work equally. There's also no exams! Overall, it's a decent class and a good introduction to the experimental process
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Took 124 F--Thinking...Professor Cheng is so scatterbrained and all over the place. she really wants to help but she does a terrible job. i think she forgets that we aren't inside of her head and she expects you to just know certain things that are not commonsensical. She is very loving and wants to help but is not a very good professor. she tries to be fair though with her grading. the exams are pretty difficult and you don't have enough time to complete them. there is a lot of reading but it can be interesting if you like to think...go figure...the class is called thinking. definitely not an easy a.
Took 124 F--Thinking...Professor Cheng is so scatterbrained and all over the place. she really wants to help but she does a terrible job. i think she forgets that we aren't inside of her head and she expects you to just know certain things that are not commonsensical. She is very loving and wants to help but is not a very good professor. she tries to be fair though with her grading. the exams are pretty difficult and you don't have enough time to complete them. there is a lot of reading but it can be interesting if you like to think...go figure...the class is called thinking. definitely not an easy a.