Lara is genuinely of the best professors here. In my opinion, her ratings for this class are very saturated because she is easily a 5/5. Midterm and final were extremely fair, and honestly quite easy. Final questions were based from book, HW, and discussions. Midterm was mainly based off of the HW. IF you want to do well in the final, put a ton of examples from the HW and discussion sets on your cheatsheet because there was a lot of repeats. Go to lecture, understand all the homeworks, do some of the discussion problems. Guaranteed A, no fuss.

She's the best teacher for probability. Ever. She went through proofs in class that were crucial to intuition, and she didn't go too slow or too fast. She taught everything beautifully, and I thought the midterms were the most fun tests I have ever taken. She knows her stuff too, considering her background. If ever someone can teach probability, it would be Lara Dolecek.

Professor Dolecek has very engaging lectures and she challenges you just enough to make the class interesting and challenging but not overly challenging. Her tests were very fair and her homework were interesting. Although her rubric was a little harsh if you were trying to go for partial credit. Overall she was a very good professor in my opinion and this was my favourite class during the quarter

Prof Dolecek is one of the best lecturers in the ECE department. This is one of the few upper div classes where I feel that I can fully absorb the content taught in the 2-hour lecture, and be immediately able to do most homework problems (without having to do too much of my own mental gymnastics). Her approach of writing on the whiteboard, having us take our own notes, and asking us lots of questions really helped me stay engaged, but this might not work as well for those who learn better with slides or by watching recordings. She does, however, upload PDF notes from a previous quarter.

This class is fine. The exams weren't too hard, the homework load was fine. Homework was so light at the beginning and then became very time consuming at the end. The class for me was easy in the beginning(with combinatorics and stuff) but at the end it got much more complicated. The lectures are good and the professor aims to connect the material to real life applications with example problems which is good. Handwriting on the notes is sometimes hard to read, but just ask the professor if you don't know what she wrote and she'll tell you. The project is fine, but try to start on it early and ask lots of questions about instructions if you are unsure.

Despite my grade, I would rank this as one of the hardest classes I've taken. Professor Doleček does a very good job as a lecturer (probably because of her experience teaching this class). The homework was challenging but didactic, and I truly felt I learned a lot from the class.

However, the midterm was just brutal. Walking out of the midterm I felt like I utterly failed – even worse than any test in a Professor Paul Eggert class, for those of you CS/E majors reading this. But they do give out significant partial credit, so you get a lot of points just for being on the right track. The final was hard but less so compared to the midterm. The curve was pretty generous though.

Damn this class was tough. Attending lectures is a must since the assigned book in my experience was too complicated with its mathematical notation of simple concepts. The midterm and final exams were also quite tough with the midterm average at around 67. However, I do give Professor Dolecek props because her lectures were clear and well paced for the amount of material she taught.
Also there is a final project on matlab that spills over into finals week so figure out how to schedule your time with working on it.

The exam is very tricky. It seems the professor want to lower the grade as much as possible. Grading is harsh. You will lose a lot of points on the stuff that you know how to do. Probability is not an easy class, but this professor make it harder. Her lecture is okay, but her hand-writing is extremely difficult to decipher.

Lots of content. Workload is not too bad, a couple problems a week and a MATLAB project towards the end. Lectures were definitely worth the two hours. Midterm and final have grade distributions are low but curved. Would take this class again with this professor.

Lots of material is covered in this class. Lara knows her stuff but can be very intimidating sometimes. Final was ridiculously difficult.

131 is a hard class in general (unless you're a math major taking this for fun, in which case it was probably child's play), but Lara is a good professor.