Professor
Veronica Santos
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2020 - Her lectures were derivation heavy, so I ended up not watching them and just using the equations that she spent the lecture deriving on the homework/tests. The clicker questions aren't reason enough to watch the lecture if you're not paying attention to them, they are a very minor grade boost (less than half a percent). You are required to attend the first 20 minutes of discussion to take a weekly quiz, and those end up being a large part of your final grade, but they are pretty simple. You can leave the discussion after that, but discussion is probably a bit more useful since the TA will just be doing example problems. There is weekly homework that has pretty complex problems (much harder compared to tests/quizzes), and if you are able to figure those out (which is doable if you give it a few hours of thought, just start them early and try to work out the path to the answer, if you get stuck then wait a day and look again, don't look up the answers), then the quizzes and tests will be insanely easy compared to those. The midterm and final were just like a normal midterm and final, all in a Zoom call with the professor. They had the same level of difficulty as the quizzes (aka much easier than the homework).
Fall 2020 - Her lectures were derivation heavy, so I ended up not watching them and just using the equations that she spent the lecture deriving on the homework/tests. The clicker questions aren't reason enough to watch the lecture if you're not paying attention to them, they are a very minor grade boost (less than half a percent). You are required to attend the first 20 minutes of discussion to take a weekly quiz, and those end up being a large part of your final grade, but they are pretty simple. You can leave the discussion after that, but discussion is probably a bit more useful since the TA will just be doing example problems. There is weekly homework that has pretty complex problems (much harder compared to tests/quizzes), and if you are able to figure those out (which is doable if you give it a few hours of thought, just start them early and try to work out the path to the answer, if you get stuck then wait a day and look again, don't look up the answers), then the quizzes and tests will be insanely easy compared to those. The midterm and final were just like a normal midterm and final, all in a Zoom call with the professor. They had the same level of difficulty as the quizzes (aka much easier than the homework).
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