Dr. Hong is super nice and willing to help. She is super approachable in class and in office hours. I do like how she has lots of office hours and has many review sessions planned. Her expectations are generally clear but some times can be confusing in terms of wording.

1 midterm/1final/3 lab reports/weekly worksheet/1 mini presentation

Labs were good, work load was just right for a chem lab class (more chill
compared to MCDB/MIMG lab classes). Lab guidelines and rubrics were very helpful in letting us know what was expected. Overall, not as bad as others say it is if you follow Dr. Hong's cues and pay attention.

DIdn’t have time during the quarter to really comment on Dr. Hong’s evaluation, so will do it right here.
"Dr. Hong is a nice professor, but not an efficient teacher."

Lecturing
Most of the time, it is difficult for me to understand what she is expressing during lecture with her accent and wording, and I ended up needing to listen to the bruin cast multiple times to figure out.
—> This increases the time for initial understanding of the knowledge
A lot of clarification and clarification on clarification and Q&A for students questions. She is cute and would make joke but honestly takes away time to finish the lecture. The powerpoint slides might not be finished by the end of lecture.

Powerpoint slides
She usually releases the powerpoint before lecture, and then replaces that one with a NEW one with notes. I ended up needing to spend time transferring all my writing on the first powerpoint to the one with notes to make sure I got all the information from the lecture correctly.
—> This + the time for note taking.
She sometimes forgets to mention things she put down on powerpoint. It is only when people ask question in person, she would realize she forgot to mention. You will have to spend time reading thoroughly to see if she misses anything on lecture but the information is on the notes.
—> This + the time for note checking.

Lab report
Her slides also do not follow an order such that she hopes “students will learn to ‘think’ and be able to solve the experimental questions” without teaching explicitly. I do not understand the concept of being able to cook without learning the chronological steps of cooking. This leads to a lot of students confusion and seeking for help, which she sees as active learning?
—> + time to reorganize the order of notes when doing data analysis for lab report
—> You may be very confused if you go through in her order of slides
—> +++++ time on learning the steps on solving experimental question
—> and I don’t know if you will acquire the problem solving skills that she is expecting.
There are no specific instructions of what you should be writing on the lab report. You will have to go to OH and TA OH to figure out in order not to miss any points for your lab report.
—> This + time to reschedule to make time to go to OH every week.
BTW for week 8 lab, Cn3D instead of pymol is not a good idea for protein structure analysis WS
—> go to youtube pymol tutorial and abandon Cn3D will save you time.

She will answer any questions students have, which is very nice. She also facilitates the discussion between students. But with information scattering around the floor like sand, I do not really fancy the way she teaches, because it takes up a lot of my time to organize and everyday there are like 10x emails from this class. It gets overwhelming although the material itself is not difficult to understand. To a certain extent, her nice personality and way of class arrangement give me stress during the quarter. I did not have a very great learning experience despite her effort to promote positive learning atmosphere as the organization of this class has taken extra hours from my sleep.

Bottomline
If you have plenty of free time and want to meet a nice human being, take Dr. Hong for 153L.
If you have a lot of duties to fulfill and other heavy classes, please be aware and careful on choosing Dr. Hong for 153L.

Dr. Hong is not the best at explaining concepts but some of her TAs are great. However, Dr. Hong is very nice and approachable. She did not podcast her lectures during this quarter so it was extremely hard to understand a few concepts. The lab reports take a long time so make sure to start early on them. To ace her exams, make sure to go through all her review questions and her slides. The exams are actually very fair. So I would say doing well on the lab reports will determine your grade in the class.

Dr. Hong is really nice and approachable, and I really like her as a person. Unfortunately, she isn't the best professor. She doesn't communicate clearly or explain concepts very well. It makes it even more difficult because her lectures aren't podcasted. The class is broken down into lecture participation, labs, lab quizzes, a midterm and a final. I received an A on everything except the midterm and final which brought me down to a B. I followed her study guide and understood everything for the midterm, but the actual midterm did not reflect the study guide so I didn't get the best grade. Her tests are somewhat misleading. If you take this class and want to get an A the best advice I can give is to just know every concept whether it's on the study guide or not. Don't be fooled into thinking that she'll only test concepts that are on the study guide. She'll ask a lot of unexpected questions.

Dr. Hong is one of a kind! She's funny, nice, knowledgeable and tries her best to make us understand. The class is totally doable and not as hard as people expect. Her tests are fair and the lab portion is not too bad, just time consuming.