<p>hopefully they won't pull that "switch profs halfway through the semester" b.s. that they did last year in chem. that definitely screwed me over in 208.</p>
<p>john terry = the devil
<3<3<3 h. floyd davis
gilbert = total hottie haha</p>
<p>but seriously, Crane is ok though he does write small. working on problem sets BY YOURSELF is key in chem. Gilbert is a nice guy but I found the class to be painfully boring. then again, i recently discovered i want absolutely nothing to do with science at cornell.</p>
<p>Can you talk about the bio labs BIOG 110 or so b/c I need to take those? Any advice, suggestions, etc. Talk about what is learned there, hw, exams, class format, lab reports, group work, etc. Thanks.</p>
<p>yeah, and also, which was probably my biggest annoyance is that i personally make use of office hours to the max, and he'd just never be there. sure, he'd eventually show up, but honestly, you have office hours for a reason. the worst happened on the day of the final, when he was supposed to have them but was giving a doctoral exam or something over the phone and then repeatedly: "can you come back in 10 min...sorry again, come back in another 10 min...30 min...1 hr." i was mad, but i will say that i was helped when he finally had time, and his help was directly responsible for me getting at least one question right on the final that i wouldn't have had i not gone</p>
<p>i liked terry a lot. sure, his test had a mean of a 53, but he made you think. i will say though that i'm biased towards more difficult tests. if i find a test easy while i'm taking it i tend to get cocky and make dumb mistakes and do poorly (like on davis's) while if i find a test challenging i'll think through everything more. granted, terry's test was so far the most challenging test i've taken at cornell so far - harder than 207's final</p>
<p>john terry is awesome. i could wax poetic about him. He understands and explains everything better than most professors in the chem department can.</p>
<p>and crane is a really clear and quirky lecturer, and his exams are really fair. can't ask for more in a professor. and you can always sit up front if you can't read his handwriting.</p>
<p>and citymom, i agree with most posters, and I would advise your daughter to start her requirements as soon as possible. such as language courses, math, premed courses, etc. Most premeds take physics sophomore year, and I don't know if you bar you from taking it freshmen year, but it's not a bad idea to take physics with all of your friends, instead of being the lone freshmen in a sea of sophomores. Less people will want to work with you on problem sets. The autotutorial bio takes as much time as the lecture one. The only difference between the two is which kind of learning style your daughter prefers. Some people like organized lectures, and others like the flexibility of going at their own pace. But I think they are both equally time-consuming. The thing then is to determine whether or not she wants to take bio. I would sign up for it anyway, then drop it later if you determine it's not necessary.</p>
<p>Otherwise, the typical premed freshmen schedule is bio, chem, math, FWS, plus one other course which is typically either a foreign language or a liberal arts distribution requirement. oh and gym.</p>
<p>yes you are definitely encouraged to work with others. what I should have said is refuse the temptation to simply copy from someone else when things get tough. sometimes when I went to office hours it seemed like only two or three kids knew what they were doing in a room full of 15-20...the rest were just sharing answers with each other. and if you sit in Baker working on it an hour or so before it is due, random people will come up to you and ask you for answers. it is incredibly easy to do zero work on the problem sets and still get the answers...which is why some do so poorly in the class.</p>
<p>davis is the best chem teacher out of all of the 207/208 ones ive had in my opinion. his demos were awesome!! </p>
<p>terry is the worst, not cause of his exam but because his lecture and slides are so pointless -<em>-. Once i had a question about concept stuff and i asked him after lecture. His answer was you don't need to know. -</em>-. The TAs were pretty useless too. And his final exam is BS!! it was 90% on the last third of the course and 1 question on acid base and basically nothing from the 1st third!!</p>
<p>207 final exam from last year, although much more difficult was more balanced. </p>
<p>HW questions are everything in chem 207/208. it's the key to doing well. you don't have to do the questions yourself. just make sure you understand the concepts afterwards. I always started the hw the night before it's due (thursday around 10pmish), I always ask for help the next day because I had no idea what the hw is about from not having read the book or going to lecture.) But, i make sure that 2 days before a prelim/final, i go over the hw answers and understand them!</p>
<p>Professor Pond of the music dept is great. He's teaching Survey of Jazz this fall: he's an authority on the subject, a great lecturer, the class is easy and interesting, and if you decide you're not thrilled with it you can get by only going to sections. 3 credits. Anything else he teaches is gold, too.</p>
<p>Earthquakes(sci req), philosophy101, psych101, greek mythology, dinosaurs(1 credit). All good fillers</p>