class: 30al and 20l
TA's tick off points like crazy due to tight grading standards for both 20l and 30al. also, 30al is 2 labs/week for a total of 6hr/wk. And you will have on average, a prelab and a postlab for each lab meeting, which means double the 20l work. Finally the soil project, which is in groups of 4, is painful. You get 80grams of a mix of mostly sand, 2 organic compounds, and 2 ionic compounds. You have 4 lab meetings to figure your own procedure to identify and quantify the compounds based on what you learned (not really since most groups have crappy procedures that pang will outright criticize when you present). And you will lose points if you dont get within %80 of the true quantities (only the ta knows the true values so you cant really falsify the data). And if you end up using beers law for inorganics, prepare for hours upon hours of data analysis. Still, enjoy the decent equipment since 30bl equipment is a downgrade. Finally, you need to think like an accountant, keep very careful track of multiple due dates and dont show up late; many people go down half a letter grade for forgetting stuff or showing up late. And if anyone wants old labs and notes for 20l and 30al, am selling complete,graded, high end sets *************

This guy has a hard grading scale on labs and calibrated peer review compared to the other professors. Soil project report takes forever due to all of the error analysis. unfortunately he will be the only one teaching 20l and 30al for a very long time based on past quarter records. Took 20l and30al with him. If anyone wants 20l labs and helpful bonuses, am selling. *************

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Also, know what the hell you're doing in lab to the best of your abilities.

People be walking in all hungover to lab just following directions and getting a relatively good yield (or bad, like me), but if you don't get what the fuck you're doing, simply ask the TA. Jigsaw pieces fall into place after a while, and you'll be ready for studying the exams if you're already familiar with the concepts behind the techniques you did in lab.

There, now I'm done. Fuck TLC again.

Classes taken: 20L (Grade: A-) & 30AL (Grade: A)

Why I'm writing this: 30AL is my favorite south campus class. This guy is a great, effective professor who cares about student learning. Also, he has nice taste in clothes. The $wagmaster even makes a blue lab coat look sexy.

The truth: It's hard. It's tedious. It's a lot of work, for fucking sure. But Pang gives you all the resources to pass with a good grade. Pang wants you to look at dem online resources he posted up? Look up that shit. Pang wants you to read the Mohrig text? Read Mohrig - Mohrig's a bit of a drag, but he knows his shit. That's probably why he wrote a book about the shit he knows.

TIP: Take 30B before taking this class, or concurrently. Spec is a huge portion of the class material, and I don't know if I would''ve done as well if I weren't already familiar with mass spec/NMR/IR, etc.

Pang's office hours are extremely helpful. He has the tendency to talk a lot though, and sometimes I started day-dreaming whenever he'd spend over 5 minutes answering one question. But his answers, albeit longwinded, make you think critically about the question being asked from many perspectives, which is the kind of thinking you'll be needing for his tests, which are difficult, BUT, still doable.

More truth: If you're good on the pre/post lab reports (most people will get high grades due to old labs) and the CPR, the portion of the class that will define your grade will be the exams (35%, if I'm not mistaken). So study for that shit, or it will bite you in the ass. His averages tend to be in the high 50s/low 60s, so they're no cakewalk. Do his practice midterms! And pay attention in lecture. Extra effort for this because his lectures are usually at 9 a.m. and most people can't even wipe their asses before 10:30 (me included).

DAT SOIL PROJECT, THO. It was a bitch. Make sure you know which of the organic compounds are volatile, or that shit will disappear into thin air, AND THAT'S NOT EVEN A FIGURE OF SPEECH FOR ONCE! But seriously - at the beginning of the project, you will be listing the useful properties of all the compounds you will be working with. Use that as a CONSTANT REFERENCE WHILE WORKING ON YOUR PROJECT (particularly, for the organic compounds)! I didn't, and it fucked me, but oh well.

Also, fuck TLC.

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This guy won't curve, so if you don't do well on CPR, midterms, the soil project, and the final, you're screwed, even if you get all perfect lab reports.