Professor
J Mitchell
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Winter 2024 - I would recommend this class overall. Mitchell is a SUPER nice guy and you can tell he really wants his students to succeed. The workload is pretty light too, with one discussion packet every week and homework on canvas with about 20 questions. The midterm and final largely consist of the clicker questions, homework, and discussion questions very often, and they are not too hard. If you don't study THE TEXTBOOK, however, the final may be hard. If you really want to do well in the class you should study both his lectures AND the textbook to make sure you really understand the content. TA wasn't much help, though. Overall I would recommend this class as a GE, and it gets much more interesting towards the end too once you really understand the content and weather mechanisms. You just have to be patient with yourself when understanding the fundamentals of the course and after that it's genuinely very interesting to learn about the weather.
Winter 2024 - I would recommend this class overall. Mitchell is a SUPER nice guy and you can tell he really wants his students to succeed. The workload is pretty light too, with one discussion packet every week and homework on canvas with about 20 questions. The midterm and final largely consist of the clicker questions, homework, and discussion questions very often, and they are not too hard. If you don't study THE TEXTBOOK, however, the final may be hard. If you really want to do well in the class you should study both his lectures AND the textbook to make sure you really understand the content. TA wasn't much help, though. Overall I would recommend this class as a GE, and it gets much more interesting towards the end too once you really understand the content and weather mechanisms. You just have to be patient with yourself when understanding the fundamentals of the course and after that it's genuinely very interesting to learn about the weather.
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Professor Mitchell has really good material prepared for each lecture (especially his cartoons) so it really helped understand confusing concepts about the atmosphere and weather. However, I do have to say that he speaks kinda slowly and boringly.. I dozed off in class for a number of times so yea. Read all his lectures slides and go to the TA (I had Dilhara, who is amazing and nice and knowledgeable) and you should have no problem. Exams are only multiple choice with a few short answers so no big deal. Weekly discussion/lecture/at-home quizzes though so that could be quite a bit of work. Otherwise the quizzes really did help consolidate understanding. I wouldn't say it's a great great class, but I did learn something from it and now whenever I look at the sky, I know why certain clouds are formed! Pretty interesting to understand all the natural phenomenon I'd say. And he's a geek at cloud formation!
Professor Mitchell has really good material prepared for each lecture (especially his cartoons) so it really helped understand confusing concepts about the atmosphere and weather. However, I do have to say that he speaks kinda slowly and boringly.. I dozed off in class for a number of times so yea. Read all his lectures slides and go to the TA (I had Dilhara, who is amazing and nice and knowledgeable) and you should have no problem. Exams are only multiple choice with a few short answers so no big deal. Weekly discussion/lecture/at-home quizzes though so that could be quite a bit of work. Otherwise the quizzes really did help consolidate understanding. I wouldn't say it's a great great class, but I did learn something from it and now whenever I look at the sky, I know why certain clouds are formed! Pretty interesting to understand all the natural phenomenon I'd say. And he's a geek at cloud formation!
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