This lab lecture for Econ 103 is just as bad as the normal lecture. It's taught in STATA, which is probably one of the least useful languages. That being said, Professor Rojas allows students to use other languages if they wish (including R or Python), as long as you can understand STATA output, which isn't too difficult. Professor Rojas makes it clear what components of STATA programming you need to be familiar with, and after a quarter of never touching STATA and using R instead, it was still extremely easy to have the STATA comprehension ability required on exams. Professor Rojas is probably the best professor you can get for this waste of time class taught in a waste of time language.

The midterms are fair if you pay attention to the slides and read the textbook. However, the professor mainly reads the slides in class, so if you understand the material you should be fine. The professor seems nice and answers question in class should you have any.

I found this class to be really hard. It is obvious that Rojas is very knowledgeable but he did a bad job of teaching it to people who had never learned econ before. The midterms and final were really hard but I know some people thought they weren't as hard as I did. On the positive side, you don't need to go to discussion section and he teaches off of the slides so it's not completely necessary for you to go to lecture.

Rojas is a pretty clear lecturer, but he basically just reads off his slides. The textbook is helpful, and Mindtap if you pay for it, but a lot of it you can just learn from the slides.

His lectures are really dry, and his just reads from his slides. The midterms are EXTREMELY easy, yet the final was just the opposite and insanely difficult.

Everything you need to know can be learned off his slides

TO SAVE MONEY there is an online program called mindtap that Rojas highly recommends, but does not require, to pass his class. It costs $120 but find 3+ friends to share one account and split the cost. Will save you a lot of money. I did this with Econ 1 and Econ 2.

TO SAVE MONEY there is an online program called mindtap that Rojas recommends but does not require. It is usually $120 but share 1 account with 3+ friends and split the cost. It saves a ton of money. I did this with Econ 1 and 2.

Be careful of taking this class with Rojas if you are a Humanities major and unfamiliar with Econ. I struggled with both midterms and the final (which was 70 questions and quite the marathon...) Rojas is a dry lecturer and I had to pay extra attention to keep from falling asleep. I believe most people in the class did well and I may be an exception. However, it is important to read over the textbook to fully understand the concepts.

Few tips:

- You can buy ANY version of the Econ textbook. I got the 6th edition and it worked well with the class.

- If your TA is not helpful, go to another TA to try to get a different explanation. My TA was hard to understand.

- Read over the textbook to understand concepts.

I had never taken econ before and I really liked this class. The only assignments are 2 midterms and a final, but they progressively get harder. The 2nd midterm isn't cumulative. Discussion sections do not matter at all and I didn't even go unless I had specific questions. All the discussion section problems were problems from the textbook and I would 100% buy the online textbook with Mindtap access. He uses a lot of questions from Mindtap on the midterms and final. As long as you read the textbook and do the practice problems you should be good.