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Malcolm Gordon
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COURSE: EEB 111 (vertebrate) 1) He is extremely cocky and always talks in a condescending tone 2) Severely technologically challenged( but not as bad as Donald Buth who still uses a typewriter) 3) The only biology prof I had who doesn't use ppt, lectures were disorganized 4) EXTREMELY useless lab practicals. You need to memorize about 50 different species of fishes & frogs for the 1st practical, including those pointless latin scientific names for ALL of them, which is only 10% of your grade. 5) Kept telling us to read the whole book which contains excruciating detail. This aXXhole thinks this is the only class we're taking. 6) Put ID questions on exam that are briefly mentioned (he just spent <20 sec explaining those terms) TL:DR: This is my last quarter @ UCLA and he is THE WORST BIO professor of ALL TIME This course shouldn't be 5 unit, it's more like a 10 unit course, the lab practical alone would drive you crazy
COURSE: EEB 111 (vertebrate) 1) He is extremely cocky and always talks in a condescending tone 2) Severely technologically challenged( but not as bad as Donald Buth who still uses a typewriter) 3) The only biology prof I had who doesn't use ppt, lectures were disorganized 4) EXTREMELY useless lab practicals. You need to memorize about 50 different species of fishes & frogs for the 1st practical, including those pointless latin scientific names for ALL of them, which is only 10% of your grade. 5) Kept telling us to read the whole book which contains excruciating detail. This aXXhole thinks this is the only class we're taking. 6) Put ID questions on exam that are briefly mentioned (he just spent <20 sec explaining those terms) TL:DR: This is my last quarter @ UCLA and he is THE WORST BIO professor of ALL TIME This course shouldn't be 5 unit, it's more like a 10 unit course, the lab practical alone would drive you crazy
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I took EEB 111 last quarter and it was probably the worst class I have taken in my whole stay here at UCLA. Along with 2 mandatory field trips, there are 2 lecture midterms and 2 lab midterms, along with the final. As a 3rd year Environmental Science major at the time, I felt a little out of place as majority of the class were Pre-Med/Biology 4th years. The averages on all the midterms were super high, which resulted in the class actually being curved down. If you are going to take this class, be prepared to learn a lot of boring stuff and have to memorize over 200 animals (including their order, family, genus, and species names). His lectures are very boring, and his old age probably does not help with this. Would only take this class if you absolutely have to.
I took EEB 111 last quarter and it was probably the worst class I have taken in my whole stay here at UCLA. Along with 2 mandatory field trips, there are 2 lecture midterms and 2 lab midterms, along with the final. As a 3rd year Environmental Science major at the time, I felt a little out of place as majority of the class were Pre-Med/Biology 4th years. The averages on all the midterms were super high, which resulted in the class actually being curved down. If you are going to take this class, be prepared to learn a lot of boring stuff and have to memorize over 200 animals (including their order, family, genus, and species names). His lectures are very boring, and his old age probably does not help with this. Would only take this class if you absolutely have to.
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