<p>Does anyone know which professor is better to have for chem 1A? I've looked at ratemyprof, but they all have good ratings! Anyone have any good/bad experiences? Thanks.</p>
<p>I need this answered too. And what teacher to take for Math 1B</p>
<p>bump for answers!</p>
<p>chem 1a all professors are the same. you can go to whichever lecture section. same material same tests. just pick whatever fits your schedule</p>
<p>so there’s not one that is nicer/better teacher/better grade distribution, etc.?</p>
<p>they all suck at teaching. =</p>
<p>according to schedule.berkeley.edu, there are only about 250 seat for the lab portion of the chem 1A and there about 70 seats left! Does anyone know if more lab section will be opened, especially sections that are at more convenient times (preferably in the afternoon) because none of the labs would work with my current schedule?</p>
<p>They will probably open up some more lab sections as the calsos start up, though with the current budget crisis it is hard to say how many.</p>
<p>The professors: Both Majda and Stacy both taught Chem 1A last fall, when I took it. In my opinion, Stacy is more “motherly” and clearer in explanations, but Majda is more enthusiastic. I usually ended up going to Stacy’s lecture though.</p>
<p>If i have a class that ends at 1PM and another one that starts at 1PM will the professor let me leave a little bit earlier so I can get to my next class?</p>
<p>Classes at Berkeley start 10 minutes later than scheduled. So your class that starts at 1PM will actually begin at 1:10. Even then, it probably won’t matter when you leave. They won’t even notice because the class is so huge.</p>
<p>So we can go to any lecture, but how to the tests work then? Doesn’t each teacher have different tests with different curves?</p>
<p>same test same curve</p>
<p>Alright, so it’s just the time of the class then? That makes the decision much easier then</p>
<p>they still all suck in my opinion, except majda was funny. he almost lit his pants on fire iirc. as for labs, they did open up more last year, but seeing as how they’re thinking about even cutting cal grants, I don’t know if they will this year or not.</p>
<p>Wait, if there’s no space for the labs, then about 1000 people can’t take it. What do they do then? And how do they get grades for labs? @__@;</p>
<p>if 1000 people can’t take lab, then those 1000 people won’t get into lecture. 1a isn’t like 3a/3al; there is no separate lecture for labs. you must take lab for lecture in 1a. All you can do is hope that they open more labs because they seemingly like to underestimate by a lot for whatever reason.</p>
<p>i did my CalSO already (june 8-9) and was wondering the same thing</p>
<p>the way it works is that on the schedule of classes, it shows only 1 lab in each time slot. when u use telebears to register for classes, u pick the time slot you want (for me it was monday 1-5). it told me that the one i had picked was full but automatically enrolled me in another lab for the same time slot. </p>
<p>in other words, there are more in each time slot (not just what looks like ONE section of 20 ppl or whatever), and thus the online schedule just doesn’t list more than 1 in the same time slot even if they are there. not sure how many they can take at each time but thats what happened for me</p>
<p>just an fyi for people who might have these professors in the future - arnold is awesome! and i like stacy too. majda is ok…the other 2 are better. I’ve only been to majda once though.</p>
<p>I’ve been to Majda’s and Stacy’s lectures before. I think Stacy is a much better lecturer, and she was the main professor in charge of the course when I took Chem 1A. What tends to happen is that it doesn’t really matter what lecture you sign up for- it’s more the labs that you need to get into in order to be into the class. </p>
<p>When I took it, you needed an iClicker for participation points so that you could take the short quizzes during classes so they’d know that you attended, but the lectures are still webcasted.</p>