a beautiful man with a beautiful voice

This class was great at the beginning because the material about the universe was very intriguing. However, as the quarter went on, the lectures became faster and faster paced and the quizzes became more math-heavy. In my opinion, some of the grading on the free-response part of the quiz was quite unfair due to their questions not being clearly asked/stated. I took this class because I am a non-stem major and this fulfills all of my requirements, so if not for this fact that I get 4 credits for 3 quarters, I would not continue in the cluster. The largest problem with this class was my TA. He was very unclear and had very specific, unrealistic requirements (that the other TAs did not have) for the large paper writing assignment that was 30% of our grade. He wasted much of the discussion class time talking about irrelevant material thus leaving us no time for the labs or discussing lecture material.

The material was pretty challenging as someone who does not care too much about science. I was able to manage to get an A but it took a lot of additional time to understand the material and comprehend what was going on. The labs were somewhat helpful but I felt that there was quite a bit of busy work especially with the readings.

70A was really fun! Topics were a little difficult to understand at first, but I got them once I rewatched the lectures on CCLE afterwards to prepare for the bi-weekly quizzes. Profs stayed behind for office hours after each lecture which was really helpful in understanding what we just learned from the lecture.