Dr. Poe is amazing! She gave very engaging and interesting lectures, the class was meant to not be too neuro-heavy because she knew other majors like psych or physci were taking the class which is very considerate of her (but to be honest in some cases kind of dumbing down some of the neuro circuitry that we discussed made it a bit harder to understand for those that have taken the M101 series already- although we weren't required to know more than she taught to be fair).

I loved how in lectures a lot of it was discussion based like people were always typing in the chat and Dr. Poe would just respond and join in the conversation like it was no big deal which was super cool. She was very welcoming and kind she didn't make me feel nervous to ask questions which a lot of professors do, in fact she always seemed really happy when people asked questions or interjected comments during class.

The class was taught by a few different professors and there would be guest lectures every so often so you never got bored. Her lectures were the more neuroscience focused ones like for sleep and fear circuitry but she always related it to some bigger picture concept that related to bias and discrimination which I thought was really cool.

Exams were pretty easy and completely reasonable if you just take really good notes and basically write down everything she says so you have that to look at during the exam. The exam does require some brain power like you have to be able to make connections u can't give ctrl+f ur notes the entire exam but if you have a general understanding of the circuity and how it relates to the concepts taught you'll be more than fine. They don't try to trip you up or confuse you at all on questions but since it is neuro which is kind of inherently complex if you don't pay attention it can be easy to mark something wrong on accident (like when you forget that a question says "which of the following is not correct" and u put the correct one type of issue).

*my only complaint is that sometimes she would trip up on her words and have to restate something but wouldn't specifically be like "oh no sorry this is this" but would just like repeat the phrase in a slightly different but significant way, which wouldn't normally be big deal in person since that's just kind of a normal speech pattern but when you're watching on zoom and audio isn't great it gets pretty confusing at times. but again that like wasn't really her fault per say and she never required us to have a crazy in depth neuro understanding for the exams so it generally wasn't a big deal and she was always willing to clarify statements from lecture if you just posted on the discussion forum or emailed her about it.

Dr. Poe is an amazing professor. She is well-versed in the subject of sleep – it was especially cool to have a professor that's been on the Netflix show Explained! I loved her lectures and found her to be really sweet and approachable. Take her if you get a chance!