TLDR: Absentee teacher, stolen class material, goated TA

20AH with Professor Narang was certainly an experience.

She has asthma (she blew up her office and used it as an excuse to skip class). She also went on a submarine expedition in the middle of the quarter (the trip wasn't for her). She also went on multiple conference trips during the quarter (and sent her poor grad students in to teach us (they didn't know what was happening)). You may notice a theme here.

Professor Narang's reputation really precedes her, as do her teaching methods. She actually did take coursework from MIT CourseWare. She also took the MIDTERM from MIT CourseWare (didn't even make her own formula sheet). It included an entire section on hybridization (55/130 pts) that was not taught at all. The class protested enough to get the entire section converted into extra credit, yielding wild midterm scores like ~145% with a binodal distribution.

Lectures were fun (a good opportunity to form close relationships via trauma bonding). My favorite memory of this class was when she drew out a single integral for volume, and multiplied it by a coefficient that was literally a cube. Think like ❒∫dV.

The homework problem sets... existed... A lot of them were somehow exceedingly similar, yet supremely time consuming. In retrospect, the concepts covered by the homework sets were not that difficult, but given that everyone was taking this class in their freshman fall quarter, we were not at all equipped to tackle these complex concepts. Homework sets further into the quarter often included impossible integrals (the Γ function is my goat), as did the midterm and final (anybody want to analyze a double potential well?). She taught classes like we were equipped with the knowledge and expertise of a first year grad student, though I've heard that not even her grad students understand her.

Consider that we, as a class, contemplated going on strike. Not that it would've mattered, since she probably wouldn't have shown up anyways. Also consider that I care enough to post a review here, 4 quarters after I took this class.

Our saving grace was our TA, Luigi, who sadly no longer works here. Without him, I'm not sure any of us would've understood anything. If you see this Luigi, we love you and miss you dearly ❤️.