Professor Wright is a super nice and lovely person. You can tell she genuinely is passionate about teaching and improving the student experience. She welcomes feedback and questions, and weighs what topics students are interested in. At the end of the class, she provided doughnuts which was a super nice touch as we didn’t have much left content-wise for the class. The journal club groups were definitely on the large-side and made it hard to engage everyone in the group and make sure everyone was contributing equally. In the end, the presentations weren’t too engaging since our peers had to attend but would be on laptops or their phones during the discussion. Since it was rare that people paid enough attention to ask questions, it was up to Vihar to ask the questions and “grill” the presenters. His questions seemed complicated at times especially for the undergraduates to be able to understand complex polymerization. For the professor, I would encourage her to be more confident and speak at a greater volume during lecture while sharing any additional knowledge she has. Even going into explaining her own research would be a good learning opportunity. I am grateful for the reasonable grading scheme and how there were allowed absences and some dropped homeworks. It allowed me during some of my busy weeks to prioritize other classes and get work done.

Compared to 104A, this class was much more reasonable and the TAs and professors treat you with respect and as adults who have conducted labs before. The lectures weren’t super helpful but were a good refresher and condensed all of the 104A lectures to be less time consuming and detailed. I appreciated some deadlines being extended as well as we got to the later part of the quarter, as assignments for this class and others would stockpile. Being able to resubmit earlier reports for updated grades was also a nice part of this class. It did not take too much additional time and applying the feedback versus just reading it over helped in reports afterwards. The TAs were instrumental to success in this class as each experiment was heavy on theoretical concepts that were more difficult than what we have experienced before. They were also friendly and understanding of mistakes and did their best to help in any way possible. The lab groups worked well, and I found new friends in the major that I could work with and ask help for in my other chemical engineering classes.