This class is huge! It runs the whole year - first semester is divided into two stand alone parts, each with a 25% exam. They are hard. You cannot cram for these, you have to review as you go along. The material is interesting though. Dr. Duong will never answer you on Piazza. In second semester you have various team exercises where they expect you to do way too much in too short a period of time. Again, the material is interesting but it feels like a lot. There’s also a short quiz every week. You experience a “flipper classroom.” This is good, you will actually learn in the pre-recorded mini lectures. This is also bad because material is scattered everywhere. No one knows what you should actually know, but you better learn it all. Overall, the class is enjoyable because as a biochemistry...read more

Review as you go along! Very content heavy!

(Online) 25% of your grade is the lipids midterm (super super difficult) and 25% of your grade is the proteins 'final' exam (super super long). Tutorials are 3 times a week and are your only opportunity to ask questions besides Piazza since the profs don't have office hours. Haven't gotten to the last 4 months of the course yet.

You need to review things as you go to make sure you understand them; this is not a course you can cram for the night before.