unless you are sure you want to do accounting or insist on continuing as a bus econ major, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

1) Lectures - basically mandatory, no recorded lectures, no notes posted. if you want to imagine what a lecture with gardner is like, imagine being screamed at by a drill sergeant, making you memorize accounting terms no one knows the definition of. Her way of teaching can be engaging to some and frustrating for others, due to brute memorization nature of her teaching style. She went through 2 lectures screaming at us to memorize where debits and credits go, but never explaining what either of them meant.

2) Assignments - huge portion of your grade, graded by TA's with utmost accuracy that you would think they don't have a job or anything else to do. biggest tip: DO NOT slack on the first assignment, it's worth like 10 percent of your grade (it consists of her obsession with buffet). Assignment 2 takes 2 weeks of utter frustration and damn near had me giving up, but it's graded on completion (you can only pass the class if you do it with full accuracy, but it doesn't actually go in the gradebook as an assignment). EVERY assignment is on paper and submitted in-person. If you do not turn it in within the first 5 minutes of class, you are duducted 50% off the assignment.

3) Course Reader - 70 bucks, where she takes all of her notes, midterm and final are duplicates of the course readers. Forget about what she says in class; brute memorization of the course reader is enough to do well on her exams.

I switched my major to econ, and she removed every morsel of passion I had for accounting.

I think the hate is a bandwagon thing honestly. She is a great accounting teacher, and tries her best the make the material enjoyable, even if she can be a little over the top. She can have a little bit of a bite to her but shes kinda just "that bitch." When she says review the pamplet, REVIEW the pamphlet. The tests are basically the pamplet without notes, so you fill in all the details. I severely underestimated how hard the midterm and final would be and thought it would be self explantory, no my brain blanked out. The projects aren't hard, just very time consuming, I think I genuinely learned a lot. Get friends in this class and help eachother out!