Marlow, Colleen  

This is the first and last time I will write a Polyrating eval because I feel so strongly about Marlow. She is hands down the worst professor I've ever had. Extremely confusing lecture, condescending, unprofessional and quite frankly a gigantic bitch. I could give 15 reasons as to why you shouldn't take Marlow but the main example I will put is her attendance policy. Marlow doesn't allow you to miss more then 2 classes all quarter under any circumstances. Sickness, family deaths, interviews out of town doesn't matter. That being said, of the 30 classes she missed 13 of them, leaving us with 6 different substitutes and leaving me with the most confused I've ever been in a class. Essentially, I can't say enough bad things about this woman. Please avoid her at all costs.

This professor could care less about how you are doing. She does not explain the material clearly and instead has confusing hypotheticals.She doesn't tell you if your assumptions are right or wrong. In fact, she pretends your assumptions are accurate, so you are even more confused. She does not have a break in between her labs and lectures, because again she could care less. Honestly, this class was terrible.

She's a terrible instructor. The first day of class, we all thought she'd be a cool teacher because she's fairly new and so we thought she would understand the students better seeing as how she was a student at cal poly not too long ago. As the quarter went on, we find that we are not learning a thing in her class. Her lectures all consists of deriving equations. She does not give any examples in class at all. She assigns problems for homework and expects us to figure it out ourselves without showing us in advance. Her homework problems are also on material that she won't be covering until two weeks later. She makes the midterms out of 18points which does not make any sense to me. Her midterms were nothing on the lecture or the homework. So be prepared to know how to figure out how to do 10 long problems in 45min. After every quiz and midterm, she shows us how the majority of the class is failing, yet she doesn't try to help us. Instead, she assigns extra problems to do, but doesn't show us how to do them. If you have the choice, don't ever take this class with her, unless you're prepared to teach yourself the material.

I had Dr. Marlow for her first quarter here, which is probably mostly why she was such a horrible teacher. She lectured on a very small portion of the material, but gave homework based on two chapters. Her quizzes were also on a lot more material than what she actually lectured on, despite her claims that the quizzes were based on the lecture. She also did about four or five example problems over the course of the entire quarter, and instead assigned a few optional problems for us to do on our own. Then she wouldn't go over the problems until after the quiz, making them essentially useless. Her exams were a lot like the quizzes, they were fairly difficult and pretty much every problem was a curve ball that required you to use several equations that she never explained how to use during the lecture. Every point is also very precious in her class because quizzes were worth between 4 and 6 points and the exams were worth 18 points each. Avoid taking her class unless you have a lot of time on your hands to read and study the book every single day, and enjoy teaching yourself physics.

At first I thought this class would be okay but as the quarter went on I realized how little information was being taught in lectures. We turned in homework on Mondays based on the lecture material that was scheduled to be taught the week before but often the material was not taught until after we had turned in homework on that topic. The weekly quizzes were pretty difficult and the midterms were manageable, but overall I felt like I learned most of the material either in lab or by teaching myself.

When this quarter started, I thought this class would be easier than 133, because it was just about using equations. As the quarter went on, that was definitely not true. We turned in homework that was supposed to be based on the lecture material we did in class. The problem was that the lecture material came after we turned in the homework, so no one had any clue what to do. Also, she didn't do any example problems in class, which makes everything that much harder. The quizzes, midterms, and the final were very difficult, and they were worth such a small amount of points; between 4-6 points for quizzes, 18 points for midterms, and 40 points for the final. Unless you love physics, and enjoy reading the book, and teaching yourself how to do the problems and use the equations, don't take her.

All these people hating below have somewhat of a valid argument but the truth in their statements is exaggerated. This was Marlow's first quarter teaching at Cal Poly, after learning I too thought a first quarter teacher, either it was going be pretty easy or pretty tough. The first five weeks were challenging, she did do a lot of long derivations and her lectures, 2 hours, did seem to drag on a bit. Examples, examples, examples. Cal Poly, learn by doing! give me something easy and than progress in difficulty after that point. I feel her lectures were always not timed well with her homework problems, for there was always something she didn't explain where I would have to pull out the book on the weekend and teach myself since I was doing it on the weekend and it was due monday so no office hours to go to, which was tough. The few office hours were I did not procrastinate and went into she was helpful and answered all my questions clearly. Quizzes were open notes so if you pay attention and write what she says down those should all be 100%'s. Midterms however always averaged around the 60's. Even getting 90%s on the midterms I still think she should have curved the class towards the average rather than making the test out of the highest grade in the class. After the first midterm she let us fill out a survey to critique her and that helped a little but I feel she has a lot to learn but has potential to be a good teacher if she learns from her mistakes.

I think people are just over exaggerating. Sure, her lack of a curve for her midterms were a bit unfair but she was a really helpful professor. Her lectures weren't always clear but that's what office hours and asking questions are for. I really liked that she really pushed for understanding the underlying concepts, which made me enjoy the class more. She had weekly open note quizzes which were actually pretty easy if you just paid attention in class. Overall, I thought she was a pretty good professor considering she's still new to teaching at this school.

I learned more from the book than i did from her. Tests were't impossible. Also she probably just didn't like me very much and was sometimes very rude when i asked questions.

(lecture review only) Marlow was pretty good. She knows the most common areas where students have questions, and is good at understanding what you're trying to ask (even if you don't!) and then explaining it well. It's true that she is kind of..weird sometimes but that just makes her lectures more memorable. Her exams are about the same difficulty as the homework, so not that hard. And she drops your lower midterm, which is pretty nice. I think she said that each of the midterm averages was about a 75%, but when she dropped one it went up to 85 or 90. She lets you have an equation card too (3x5 for midterms, 4x6 for final). So yeah, pretty reasonable all around. Also, to the previous reviewer who said she didn't like you much -- were you the guy sitting in the front row who was always interrupting lecture and had to be asked to stop your goddamn *knitting*? Well guess what: you were annoying *everyone,* not just her. I actually thought she was remarkably patient with you. If I had been teaching I would have kicked you out halfway through the quarter.

Professor Marlow is a pretty good professor. She's always helpful in office hours and does a good job presenting concepts. The midterms/final were all very reasonable, so if you understand the homework and the labs, you'll be fine. I only got a B because I didn't study for the final.

Marlow has to be one of my favorite professors so far at Cal Poly. Her lectures were easy to follow and she was very approachable and organized. If you plan on taking her class, make sure you know how to do all the homework problems even though she does not grade for accuracy on the homework. The homework is very closely related to quizzes and tests. If you do your homework (which there isn't a lot of) and study a little bit, it is not hard to get a good grade.

I love Marlow.

Horrible. Made tons of mistakes in class. When you ask her a question she just responds with 'what do you think?' At first I thought this was her teaching method but I'm pretty sure she just doesn't know the answer. She gets incredibly defensive when you try to get points back on your quizzes, even though she claims her grades are negotiable. Tons of her quiz questions are vague, and she often asks you to explain your answer. She also has multiple choice questions that are worth 3 points and have multiple right answers... but they're all or nothing. So basically, if there are 3 right answers and you get 2 out of 3 of them, you get 0 out of 3 points for the question. Come on. She barely scratches the surface of the actual physics in class.. she just goes on and on about the conceptual part of it and the history of who discovered it. She expects you to learn completely from the homework, which you don't even get credit for doing. Your notes will not help you do the homework at all. Honestly, don't take Colleen unless you're down to buy Chegg and go to office hours every week. It's a real shame too because this material is really fascinating. I've never actually been interested in physics until now. Too bad Colleen is trash.

NOTE THIS IS A LAB REVIEW ONLY. Marlow for lab is not that bad. She is a nice professor who is just trying to learn her ways of teaching. I think she said something about leaving cal poly so this review might never be read but who knows she might return. But Marlow is a really lab professor because if you need help she basically just does the lab for you by telling you exactly what to do. Easy stuff all you have to do is complete the worksheets and you are done. Although some of them may be long.

She's a great person. She cares about her students and if you don't understand something in class she is more than willing to explain it to you outside of class. She gives in class example problems that you go over and sometimes even turn in for free credit at the end of the class. She can be a bit quick at writing things on the board so make sure you understand everything in the previous class before going to your next class. In physics, most of the information compiles from previous classes. I'd recommend her.

She sucks at teaching but thinks she's doing a good job at explaining. She can be a bit*h sometimes with her attendance/tardy policy. There was a sub named Dr. Moelter? or something who came for a day to teach our lab/lecture. I learned more in that day alone than I did with her the entire quarter (and it wasn't just me who felt that way).

If you had to choose between Marlow and Yahoo Answers, go with Yahoo Answers. At least people won't be condescending, and won't be rude to you for asking questions. She has this habit of explaining things using analogies that are incredibly confusing. It is very difficult to keep track of what these analogies represent. If you think some of her convoluted teaching methods are not working well for you, I recommend you do not bring that up to her; she seems to be insecure about that. Instead of trying something different, she will tell you how you are stupid, and how her methods are flawless. If you answer every question on a quiz correctly, like I often do, you should not expect a full mark; she will always find a way to take off points, then she will make up some bullshit reasoning for that. One quiz had a practical portion, where you measure some values, do some calculations, then find the error between them and the theoretical values. I did every calculation correctly, yet still lost points because I did not explain why my error was higher than 9%. Guess what. She never even remotely mentioned that we are expected to do that. What if you want to discuss that with her? She will either blame it on some grader, or she will say that everyone lost the same points for the same thing. That is supposed to make it fair, somehow. P.S: She also knows no grammar; good luck trying to follow what she writes on the board. Even I, for whom English is a second language, know that 'effect' is not a verb. You are seriously more likely to understand a Bulgarian amateur on Yahoo Answers.

Marlow is seriously one of the laziest professors I have ever seen. She puts very little effort into any explanations whatsoever, and when someone asks a question she will either give a half assed "you should know this" response or she will tell us to look it up in the book. She comes to class about 5 minutes late every lecture. My class was a lecture/lab combo but a majority of our class sessions were double lectures. She would cut into lab time by 30 minutes and expect us to fully complete a lab and turn it in in about 25 minutes. She got frustrated that no one turned in complete labs one time and so she actually handed them back and had us complete them for homework. She didn't give us any midterms, but instead gave us a 45 minute quiz every week. Somehow she believed this was better because we didn't have any midterms. These "quizzes" count for 45% of our grade and are pretty much mini exams every week. Honestly this class was absolutely miserable. She's condescending, lazy, and really insecure if you ask her questions about her grading methodology. Avoid Marlow if you can. PS My grade is N/A because I have yet to finish this class. I expect to finish with a B or a high C based on how I do on the final.

I had Professor Marlow for the studio session. She was really bad at conveying material in a clear way and making due dates very clear. As part of the studio style class, she was not always the one grading the work we did, which was really frustrating as she would often tell us to do assignments a certain way and then it became clear that the grader(s) didn't like that. This lead to a lot of confusion and a lot of lost points. When I asked her about it she simply said we should have followed the instructions more carefully. At the very end of the class, she gave lab grades that could vary greatly across lab partners, despite all of us turning in identical work (due to working on labs together and turning in nearly identical work). She is another professor from the Cal Poly physics department that I would recommend you avoid.

She seems sweet at first but she is one of the least understanding people I’ve ever met. She assigned so much busy work and controls us like a high school teacher, doing binder checks and even threatening to take our phones. There’s a quiz every week and no midterms, and the quizzes are graded really harshly. One week the average was a 9 out of 20, and the next week it was a 7 out of 20. She “scales” it, but literally only by 3% (so an 87 is an A) and a lot of times the highest grade is only a 14 or so out of 20. In other words, the curve isn’t helpful and most people fail the quizzes. If you get a question right but solve it a different way, you get it marked wrong. I hated going to this class so much.

Dr. Marlow has her bright moments but overall is a disappointing and demoralizing instructor. She has a seating chart and conducts comprehensive binder checks like in middle school. She is extremely rude, condescending, and curt. She cuts off asking questions during lecture to stay on top of her strange scheduling which includes running labs at her "class average" speed: i.e. half the class is ready to move on when she says it's time to move on. Every single question I have asked during lecture resulted in snark and further confusion. Every single question I have asked during office hours resulted in some sort of strange, misguided shaming. She somehow manages to execute her strange, awkward, and subtly sexist interpretation of social justice/equity during lectures. She has angrily snatched papers off of my desk, and she stopped her lecture to snap at me after I reached across my desk to grab my pencil. Regardless of her intentions, the result is that it seems Dr. Marlow is more interested in micromanaging every aspect of her course than students actually learning, understanding, or enjoying material. The best lecture we ever had was when she couldn't show up and another random professor had to sub. We learned more that lecture than in the last two weeks. If you have to take this class, you'll survive, but stay on your toes. Instructors like Marlow as well as the dull and semantic Physics for Scientists and Engineers curriculum are the factors that uphold the physics department's extremely effective history of scaring away people unfamiliar with studying the wonders of the natural world as well as pushing out enfranchised students struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel in an environment rife with elitism, bureaucracy, and carelessness.

The quarter isn't over yet that's why I didn't put a grade. But I had her for PHYS 141 and I loved her. She is hilarious! Sure her midterms are hard but she does so much for them. You can earn extra credit then 25% of the midterm grade is write ups on the problems you got wrong. So she does a lot for her students. She gives quizzes weekly which are pretty easy. (Don't expect the midterms to be like the quizzes). And she gives homework weekly except for the weeks we have a midterm. But the homework isn't that bad at all. I would take her again if I could. I really enjoyed her class. I never went to office hours though so I don't know how helpful she is in office hours. Overall though I thought she was an alright professor. She definitely has a weird awkward side but that just makes the class that much better. And she warms up to the class as the quarter goes one. It's been weeks since I haven't laughed my ass off in that class

honestly, "dr". marlow is the worst teacher ive had here at cal poly. i hope she reads this and understands how frustrating she is. she'll teach one thing in class and then test a completely new thing on the midterms. she doesnt like to help her students succeed, shes more worried about not getting all walked on being that she is a new professor. cal poly made a huge mistake hiring her so young, as she is a horrible instructor. she needs to mature to the point where she takes it personally when her students fail. she is young and lacks skill as a teacher and her only recourse is to blame her students. do not take marlow unless your down for taking physics all over again and wasting your time. she sucks nuts. period.

I really wanted to like Dr. Marlow's class but I found as the quarter progressed that her class, and her teaching, were more and more displeasing. She has two exams, the final, weekly quizzes, and weekly homework assignments. From the beginning, it was obvious that she was new to teaching. Case in point, she is confusing as hell whenever you try to ask her to explain something to you, whether in office hours or in class. Her quizzes are generally based on the weekly Video Tutoring Session (VTS) and sometimes she'll throw in a workbook problem on them. They're not too hard but they're nothing like the exams. As for exams, as a heads up she's made numerous mistakes on them. Plus, she really is stingy with points on the exams too, and her logic behind why you deserve the points you do just astounds me. Also, she doesn't curve her exams, but she'll give extra credit if you do all of the workbook problems and turn them in on the day of the exam. Essentially, that is your curve. Additionally, this quarter she's missed quite a few days of class, whether she was out of town or called in sick, and her strategy really was just to cram the information you were supposed to learn down your throats in wherever it would fit and you could never really tell where she was in her lectures as far as where they lined up with the book. Her lectures truly have been no help. I would not recommend her. She recently told us that it was our jobs to keep track of our grades and that we should have been doing "bookkeeping" on them all along. I don't know if it's just me, but I thought teachers were supposed to evaluate you based on your skills and inform you of your progress throughout the quarter via a grade. But that might just be a new concept altogether for some teachers, like Dr. Marlow.

She is a really nice teacher, and presents her material in lectures with real life examples that you can see first hand. She always takes out this car with a long rail to explain why things are the way they are in physics. She's generally a chill teacher, but her work is really stupid. She assigns a crapload of homework along with workbook problems and has weekly quizes. The quizes are on the video tutoring sessions and sometimes the workbook, so generally, her lectures aren't very useful for your quizes. but for the miderms, she is the worst. her midterms have almost nothing to do with the lectures, and the way she words her problems are really bad. She would show us for all our tests and quizes a graph of how the class did, and just recently, our last midterm average was a 56%, but she gives no curve. For some reason, she only did it with this midterm, which is make the exam itself worth 75% of the midterm grade, and then the other 25% is test corrections. there is no logic to how she grades, and she is very inconsistant with how much partial credit you should get. she recently told us that it's not her job to keep track of our grades...WHAT THE HECK!? overall, she's a chill person. as a teacher, i wouldn't recommend her

Marlow was extremely nice in the beginning of the quarter but has slowly started becoming annoyed of students and now is a frustrated mess. Her lectures are very disorganized and she is even worse in her office hours. I tried receiving help but professor Marlow just told me to read the book and learn it myself. Partial credit on her exams are terrible. Even if most of the work is done, you may end up with a .5/10 on that particular problem. I'm not sure how other physics professors compare but I do not recommend Marlow.

She claims that the workbook has an infinite amount of problems to help solve that are similar to the quizzes which is sometimes true. HOWEVER if you don't know if you're doing the workbook right how the heck do you know if you get the concept. She means well just might not understand that students expect that they will be taught at least the majority of the material if they show up to class everyday, but with her this is definitely not the case! Our average midterm was an F. I'll leave it at that. Though this is only her 2nd quarter, I wouldn't suggest her

Okay, I used to think Professor Marlow was a pretty bad teacher. She expects the students to teach themselves from the book, but the book is completely horrible at explaining physics to anybody without a physics major! Half the time, I felt like I was just reading subscripts and letters, rather than an actual sentence. It really didn't help that some of the quizzes were based on material that we were expected to learn without having gone over it in class. I don't like how disconnected her homework and class are. We'll be going over chapter 9 in class, but the homework would be on chapter 10. Quizzes are pretty easy. Midterms are on a whole other spectrum. But recently, after a recent "fiasco," it seems that Marlow is learning from her mistakes and is actively seeking to better her teaching style. This week, the class deviated away from the "copy everything Marlow does pertaining to the example problem" to a style that I quite like, where she would teach the fundamentals of the chapter, ask us if we had any questions about the chapter, and then have us work on example problems as a class. I probably learned more in this week than ever. It's a shame it's too late. All in all, she wasn't very good, but judging from this week alone, she definitely has potential to be a great professor. She just needs to reexamine her teaching methods and do what calpoly's known for, "Learn by Doing."

She goes over example problems in class, assigns textbook/workbook problems, and gives you links to online tutoring videos. At first you think that if you do all of these you will understand the material, until you realize on your first exam that it is all irrelevant to what she tests you on. There is nothing like any of the exam problems anywhere in the mentioned material. She refuses to go over missed questions with you in her office hours because she thinks that your lazy if you try to "use" her to do your own work. She is extremely stubborn and irrational with all of her decision making and will blatantly accept one thing from one student and deny that same privilege to another. She seems to forget that her job is to teach physics and instead is fixated on teaching kids that "life is tough". I would definitely wait a quarter to take another teacher if you have the chance.

OKAY. First of all, Dr. Marlow is by no means a bad physics professor. It seems to me that a lot of the students posting all of these terrible reviews of her are frustrated because they aren't doing well in the class. Listen: This is college. It is not the professors job to hold your and and spoon feed all of the material to you. You need to work hard outside of class to understand the material completely. I have no pity for students who complain about everything and blame their bad grades on the professors. Granted, it is her second quarter here at Cal Poly, and she has a lot of room for improvement. Her lectures are fulfilling but very basic, I would like to see more in depth coverage of the material. She explains the concepts well, but does very basic problems. All things she can work on as a professor. For those of you complaining about the difficulty and workload of her class: get over yourselves. She basically GIVES the answers to her quizzes to you with the VTS's and workbook. She gives you an ENTIRE week to do 10-15 homework problems. Her midterms are challenging, but do-able. Have you seen how insanely difficult professors such as Mottman and Poling make their classes? Marlow's class is very straightforward in comparison to theirs. Marlow has room for improvement, but her class is by no means impossible. I DO recommend taking her for Phys 141 as long as you realize that this is a college level physics course, and you are going to have to work hard to get the grade you want.

she very poorly covered 12 chapters in 10 weeks and would sometimes tell someone who is asking a question about the lecture to ask later, but would never answer it, even during office hours.

not worth the struggle in this class for ten weeks; you're learning material yourself a lot of the time because she lectures on quiz material on a quiz that has already happened. avoid her.

"You guys have probably never worked a single hard day in your lives." This is the quote that I will take away from this class. Not anything physics related, just the baffling fact that a teacher would accuse her students of not having tried when the whole class failed the midterm. and the second midterm. and probably the final. wtf. She started off really nice and I really enjoyed the class having never taken physics before. I started well, failed the midterm because it was NOTHING like anything i'd seen in the hw, workbook, quizzes, anything. second midterm was a little better, but same wtf-aspect. final was a mindf*ck. actually, this teacher is a complete mindf*ck. I did everything I could to do well in this class and it still wasn't enough. OH, and if you're taking a hard class concurrently (say, cpe357,) do NOT take this teacher. she could give less shits about what classes youre taking or if youre on ap, she just cares about herself it seems. oh and the occasional swear words she uses in class to 'capture our attention' will get very annoying and they just sound wrong coming from your mouth. in short, there's a reason she has below a 1.5 on poly ratings: she freaking sucks.

I'm pretty sure that the only reason I got an A in the class was because I'd already taken physics before. If you did well in AP Physics in high school, then it really doesn't matter who you take. There were aspects of her teaching I didn't like: once she gave a quiz and lectured on the material tested AFTERWARDS. I must admit that she's fun to watch jump around the classroom, awkward in an adorable type of way. Other than that though, I see no reason to take her.

i realize now that her tests were actually not that hard, but the way she teaches the material makes it seem like the tests are impossible. if you've taken physics before, this class should be a breeze. but if you haven't, do not take her if possible.

I struggled in her class personally. Did well first midterm but absolutely failed the second one. Much of the class was doing bad also. It isn't really her though. When I thought about it, I did the workbook right before it was due and didn't know of anyone who honestly kept up with the reading schedule and did bad. The quizes on material she has yet to lecture on are nearly identical to either the workbook/text book examples that were assigned a day or two before. Isn't an easy class but was good wake up call for me.

Marlow subbed for my class one day and I must say, she is an excellent professor. Immediately I found out that she was much more competent than my current professor. She explains the material very clearly, is very nice and approachable, and makes an effort to incorporate humor/fun into the lectures. Would definitely recommend.

Marlow was awful. Your grade in this class is based on homework (graded on completion), weekly quizzes, three exams and the final. I would say the quizzes were fairly straightforward but usually were curveballs since the multi-part questions on the back would be similar to one problem we rushed at the end of class together rather than what the homework was on. She doesn't give her students enough time to finish the quizzes in a timely manner; rather, she'd always give us a time warning and tell us to decide where we wanted the most points. I know plently of people who never fully finished a quiz in this class. Homework load is doable and she posts the answers to it before the due date. Exams are definite curveballs - like the quizzes, the problems in them are based on problems we did one time in class, so if you decide to skip class be careful. She's super picky about diagrams and coordinate systems, but she does try to give as much partial credit as she can. She also gives some points for correct answers (inaccurate but correct or something like that) even if the work is wrong or if the answer is right based on a previous answer. Marlow is really bad at explaining concepts in class and more often than not I would walk out of class more confused than I was than when I walked in. She also makes a lot of mistakes when she does work on the board and doesn't notice until someone would correct her. Try not to take Marlow if you have a choice, good luck if you do.

Dr. Marlow isn't that bad of a teacher. The actual lecture isn't the best, but definitely isn't the worst. The only interesting part of lecture is when she tries to do a demonstration and ends up messing it up most of the time. She has a strange sense of humor which is sometimes relatable and sometimes confusing. She doesn't give very much time at all for quizzes which took some time to get used to. However, she does drop the lowest quiz score which is nice. Her exams are fair, challenging, but fair, though the questions can be worded in strange ways. She also does many questions where the answer you get depends on the answer of the previous question. She is forgiving with these, though, and will still give you credit for the following parts if done correctly, even if the first part was wrong, making the answer to all parts incorrect(something she calls "incorrect but consistent" or I.B.C.) I hope that makes sense. My only major complaint was her attitude. She would often answer questions in a condescending manner as if we should've known the answer. She's makes sure you know you're wrong and that she is right. Though this was often really annoying, her actual teaching isn't horrible and she definitely knows what she's talking about. So I wouldn't necessarily recommend Dr. Marlow, I would stay away if possible, but if you get blocked in with her, it's not the end of the world. Also, as a final note, if you have taken high school physics, especially honors or AP, this class shouldn't be that bad. If you haven't, I would further recommend that you probably shouldn't take Marlow.

The good: Marlow is competent when it comes to presenting the material. Her lectures are easy to follow and she is extremely thorough in her example problems/diagrams. She does expect you to be reading along in the textbook though throughout the quarter, so make sure to stay on top of that. She makes you buy the workbook to go along with the textbook, which I disliked because the workbooks are too expensive for us to only use about a dozen pages from them by the end of the quarter. But regardless, the homework load is very easy, and usually pretty helpful at understanding the material. Between the textbook and Marlow, I felt I had a pretty good understanding of physics by the end of the quarter. However, I did take AP Physics in high school to be fair. The bad: oof. Marlow is pretty rude and unpleasant. Whether in class or in office hours, I found her to be condescending and dismissive of students' struggles. Her quizzes and exams (unlike other physics classes, we have 3 instead of 2) are difficult for a variety of reasons. First of all, she barely gives the class any time to do them. She does not expect you to double-check your answers, because she believes that we shouldn't have to if we understand the material. Of course, this is moronic since it just makes the quizzes and exams test for speed rather than knowledge, so if you're a slow test taker, I'm very sorry. Second, her exams and quizzes have many curveball questions, often based on examples hastily done in class, if at all. Third, she grades very harshly. Her tests and quizzes do not consist of many points, and she takes off a lot of points for simple and petty mistakes. It's no wonder that the class average for tests and quizzes always hovered around the 70% range. If you want to succeed in this class, you have to be a very fast test-taker. If you're not, then you'll need to practice, as quizzes and exams and the final make up the vast majority of your grade in the class. On the tests/exams, you have to draw out the most detailed and accurate scenario that you can. A good detailed drawing can make a letter grade's difference. Finally, the in-class worksheets are essential for passing the class. Her quizzes and exams are always based on these worksheet problems in one way or another. Even if she does not go over a problem, you should do that problem on your own time (knowing Marlow, the problem she doesn't go over is likely to show up on your next midterm). Overall, would not recommend if you have the choice but she will make you understand the material at least.

I learned that if I were to take up hunting, I should shoot deer, not bears, because a bear will hunt me back if I successfully wound it. Fascinating! I didnt know that the key to production and operations management was so brutally simple!