Terrible teacher I have never dreaded a class more at UCLA. Lecture content never matched homework and exams. Homework too way longer to do than usual and did not match the textbook she would “reference”.

pretty useless class and hard, not easy to get an a. the concepts are not interesting either.

I owe it entirely to my TA during this quarter for pretty much saving our entire class from failing (maybe a bit of an exaggeration but not by much). Kassab's lecture were okay, and I've taken her for 164 so I expected them to be similar to before where she just has slides/notes prepared straight from the textbook. But once again, I really only started to understand the materials when I read the textbook. I learned that the hard way when I got a new achievement in this class: "Set minimum score for class midterm". I absolutely bombed it, but I was determined to make a comeback. I went to our TA's office hours and discussions and he is the best at explaining the homework problems (which our professor was against because why? We all would love to know that tbh). Thankfully the professor and TA were very lenient when grading the final group project, and I got 100 even though I thought we turned in garbage. The final exam was made up of homework problems we had seen before, and I ended up passing, all was well. That's the story of my academic comeback. I hope to never take Kassab again.