If you took 30A with a good professor, prepare to be disappointed in 30B. Nobody pays attention in class and everyone is always talking over Jane which makes it impossible to hear her. The only time I actually could pay attention and learn was when class was online when she was sick. She would spend 99% of the lecture going through long computations that finally "come together" in the last 2 mins of class when everyone was already packing up and leaving. The concepts in this class are genuinely ridiculous and something I will never be using in the future. The homework was also absurdly long for no reason and they had a 20 page homework assignment due the week of the final. The labs were awful and so much worse than 30A especially if you don't have an LA that is helpful. The capstone project was a joke and they didn't even care when half of our group never did any work and we told our TA about it countless times. This capstone project genuinely kept me up morning and night stressing from weeks 7-10. And each week you would still have labs due along with the group project work. At the end it was literally just a completion grade so don't stress over it as much as I did. I honestly am unsure how I passed this class because even though I did all of the homework and labs well, the midterm and final were very bad. I am not good at math and didn't study at all for the midterm so that was to be expected. I studied so hard for the final and it was so absurdly long and hard for no reason, they are still barely done grading it hours before the final grade deadline. This series is fake math and I am so glad to be done. DO NOT TAKE LS40. Don't let them suck you back into the lifesci fake math hole again, just take stats 13. Stay safe and get out when you can.

Literally get any other professor. love her as a person… but this class was awful. if you haven’t taken calc before you will very likely fail the midterm and final , she gives no intro into calc material even though it is not listed as a prerequisite. people that had calc background did fine , still sucked .

not that bad lol. go to office hours and use chatgpt for the labs if you dgaf abt coding tbhhhhhhhhh

So I will say that the bad reviews should not be that bad. She is honestly a really kind professor especially in terms of grading. There are plenty of opportunities to gain points back with extra credit and she even lets students do rewrites of their wrong answers on the midterm. Her midterm and final were pretty fair. She only puts types of questions that we have seen multiple times prior to the test. She is not too hard to understand, just make sure to sit in the front of her lecture. Her resources are good, just a tee bit crowded and it can be hard to get direct help. Campuswire responses tend to be quite slow and by the time they respond it is far too late. The majority of the TAs are excellent and bring a good aura. She herself is willing to spend hours helping students and is genuinely very passionate about the course. It can be tough because the homework is significantly harder than anything else which can be demoralizing but just push through.

Terrible experience.

The homework assignments were useless. Lectures were useless. The professor was useless.

Our TA was very nice however, and did teach the content. Overall, it was an easy class, so if the content and lecture isn't useful, you'll still do fine. Don't expect to learn anything though.

Jane is not great. But this class was not that hard IMO. 30b with bennoun was a lot more difficult. If you attend your lab section and the problem solving sessions, you should be totally fine to get an A. I was freaking out when I didn't get stats 13L and was forced to take this as an alternative, but found it was a walk in the park. The weekly homework assignments take super long (4-5 hours) but the midterm and final were fair and easy. The subject matter is not ideal, but getting an A is not that hard. Most of the people in my lab section (with Raunika who is awesome) got A's as well. This is a prime example of kids going on to bruinwalk and posting negative reviews when they get a bad grade in the class.

She wrote the textbook! I think she's cool but it was difficult to understand lectures and I felt that they were unorganized. Tests were graded really easily though.

The first few weeks is a learning curve, especially if you're used to strictly formulaic math classes like AP Calc AB or BC. Shevtsov genuinely wants students to do well. 30A midterm was a breeze, easier than Bennoun's. It was mostly just basic differential calculus and slope functions. 30B final was honestly hard. The average was a C-, but my grade was saved by the curve from the TA strike. Some people say this is fake math, but in hindsight, this class was pretty fun. As someone who never had any coding experience prior to this course, I thought it was stupid. But after a few weeks and by the end of the course, I enjoyed it. Stick to making sure you understand the practice midterm/finals and go to the problem solving sessions, you'll be fine and learn to love the course.

I felt that this class was overwhelming at times due to the nature of the material and the uniqueness of the subject. Lectures were okay but the slides used in class had very little detail on them. The class does have a pretty large workload but if you do all of the homework you will probably need to study less for the midterm and final.
I didn't take calculus in high school and LS 30 doesn't require it as a pre-rec however, you will need to know some calculus half-way through the course. I didn't feel like any of the calc concepts were explained in lecture (it was just assumed that we knew them) and so I was initially a bit worried. I spent a few hours on Khan Academy one day and figured out everything I needed so if you didn't take calc in high school don't worry. Just make sure that you put in some extra time learning the first couple weeks of AP Calc AB through khan academy or another tutoring website (it will make so much more sense).