There are no words to describe just how awful this course is. Since I took the summer session the content was taught by two grad students, the quality of their presentations and notes were both so bad that it was not worth it for me to haul myself over to the NPB in the summer heat just to get a poor lecture, Instead I relied on Youtube videos entirely to adequately learn the content. The next thing I noticed is that there is a sort of learned helplessness with the homework. There are usually 10-14 absurdly difficult problems that can take up to 3-4 hours of work each week. All the homeworks combined equal only around 5% of the grade, making it questionable the worth of spending that much time each week on fringe problems.

Don't take this class, whatever you do try and take it at a local community college or something. It's cruel and destroyed any interest I had in physics.

Something inside you will die :) this course will suck the remaining life out of you. You will be a new person at the end of the semester.

Very vague! The lectures are all about how to survive as a group. And the project itself? - figure it out yourselves. Not much of a guideline. Everything YOU and YOUR GROUP needs to figure it out. You will fail and fail and fail - endless all nighters and meetings then you will get it (hopefully). Some tips? - starts deliverables earlyyyyyy! - talk to other groups as much as possible… don’t go with “oh I’ll just figure it out” when someone might have already done it. Just ask!!! Trust me you this course will always give you new problems so minimize the amount as much as possible.

well… ask them questions and also if possible verify your steps with them or with TAs. Make sure you read the deliverable instructions

- you will not have any social life - take easy classes ( least credit) cuz you’ll spend 20+ hrs at least on this class in driftmier - start early!!! - don’t put everything on one person pleaseeeee! You’ll regret it. - if one person isn’t doing enough or if you’re the person who’s doing too much - COMMUNICATE before you bomb the checkpoints - make sure more than 1 person codes and actually knows what’s what - test each step and make sure everyone is on the same page. - document everything! Those docs you do every week will help with end of semester report