This class was fine. This lab is essentially an extension of Elegant Mind Club from Arisaka's lab. We spend the first 5 weeks working on microscopy and then the rest on a final project. Arisaka expects you to invest more than allotted for in the class schedule (aka out of class time). This lab was scheduled for Tues/Thurs for one hour but he would often expect groups to meet outside for multiple hours to do lab work, which would have been fine if communicated beforehand as expectations for the course. Additionally, he will email you last minute about a paper/presentation due either the next day or so. For example, one time he emailed us at 9:30pm that we needed to present the next day during class. He does not have any sort of rubric or clear cut expectations of what you specifically need to do. My group had a presentation where he got extremely irritated and criticized our presentation when he did not clearly tell us what the presentation needed to cover.

With all that being said, the TAs are in charge of the grading and you will be fine grade-wise as long as you put in a decent amount of effort. The TAs can see that you're trying and they will grade you based on that so don't get too stressed about all of the mishaps because you will be fine.