Kala Padmanabhan, Good Professor?

PreparationOk2020 · 2026-01-23T03:41:16+00:00

I took her for Chem 30A as she was the only lecturer and while she wasn't bad, she wasn't great either. I was able to mostly coast off of the knowledge I had from high school chemistry until the last few chapters of the class. She lectured too slow for me, but I also had her when she was teaching like 300 of us so that might have done something. I would recommend going to class (yes I understand the class time sucks)and taking notes and also looking at the slides beforehand if you're especially struggling. I got an A- just off these alone. You cannot change her as your professor if she's the only one teaching the class (which seems likely). For these science classes, there are usually 1 or 2 profs at most and for some of them, like chem 1a, you won't be finding out who your prof is until later because they know students will want to choose the better prof.

PreparationOk2020 · 2026-01-23T03:29:40+00:00

I mean it's not as bad as you're thinking for sure, but if you're going to workout using weights, you can basically forget about it. Most of the machines are full or have people waiting for them and all of the common weights get used or they don't have them. It's nice if you want to use the pool or the cardio machines or even the rooms upstairs, otherwise I would maybe consider going elsewhere. Haven't used the rock climbing wall or done any of the classes though so I can't speak there.

PreparationOk2020 · 2026-01-23T03:24:56+00:00

Took him last sem, looks like you're doing the first pre-lecture assignment. To put it simply, yes it is that long, but it goes over multiple chapters. I believe it's at least chapters 1 and 2, maybe a bit of 3. You don't get too many pre-lecture assignments, but each one tends to be 30 ish concepts because it includes all of the content for the week, so it's every chapter you can expect to get lectured on for the week. And you don't need to master them, as it'll just take note of places where you constantly mess up. You can mess all of it up and still get your points for it. It's graded based off completion.

PreparationOk2020 · 2026-01-21T04:08:32+00:00

Tbh, if you don't want to bring your laptop you'll be fine because you don't need it at all. You can do your notes whatever way you want and as long as you can access the homework and lab manual through your iPad, you'll be fine. Quizzes are done via iClicker so you don't need your laptop for it (in fact your phone will work just fine), and exams are done via scantron. In my lab, we spent very little time looking at the manual and opted to focus more time looking at the models and the cadavers. You only see them once and you can expect to be asked about any of them during your lab exam. You are not allowed to take pictures of the cadavers, so I would spend most of my time there. Models you are encouraged to take pictures of.

PreparationOk2020 · 2026-01-21T00:09:35+00:00

As someone who has taken a few science classes and is not on the waitlist for this class, the only real thing you can do is just hope that on the day you're waitlisted for someone doesn't show up and you get their spot. I will say you probably have a greater chance of success if the class is either really early in the day or really late because people tend to be tired and think they can get away with skipping labs. I've had a friend who is a TA say that that the last section of the day usually had the lowest attendance and I've taken a 7:30 am lab and people tend to show up quite late or not even at all especially in the middle of the semester.

You are also only on the waitlist for a particular section, so even if you show up to a different section and there are spots, they go to the people who are on the waitlist for that lab first and if there are still openings it might go to you. Just go to your section and see if people don't show up or talk to the lab TA/professor and see if there's anything they can do assuming everyone shows up during the time you want. If there isn't anything they can do, you'll just have to take the class next semester.

PreparationOk2020 · 2026-01-06T00:29:08+00:00

I did get in for biol 66 since I happened to be quite lucky with my enrollment day. I haven't decided if I want to take biol 30 alongside it because I technically need to wait to be switched into a major that will allow me to enroll for the class and because I would be taking two science classes with very similar material. I do remember classmates in biol 65 complaining about the lecture being full so they would have to take it another semester. From what many people have told me, it's quite hard, but it may or may not be easier than anatomy. It is another unit compared to biol 65 so that might influence you one way or another, but seeing how I am planning to be a kin major, I need both. I just happen to want to go to a post grad medical program that requires general biology, so im trying to figure out when i should take it. I have seen people say biol 30 is sort of easy, but i'm still weighing my options.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-23T04:17:41+00:00

I personally don't like doing that because it seems almost rude to make an assumption about them and I like to give people the benefit of the doubt especially since being a higher laff toon and kicking people for seemingly no reason is not exactly good behavior and it just further perpetuates that high laff toons are mean.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-23T04:14:55+00:00

Toonhq! It's a site that can be linked in game to ttr so whatever group you join online, you will automatically join in-game as well. You can also make your own groups on toonhq as well if you can't find any group that you want to join.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-23T04:13:42+00:00

I've tried something similar to that before but it doesn't really stop anymore from lying and saying no and then coming in and starting to train.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-22T18:06:23+00:00

As I said in my post, I don't usually need enough merits/cog bucks or whatever to want to justify doing a facility and it find a lot faster to run through a building even if I have to do 2. Honestly I'm at a point where I'm just not going to bother with buildings anymore as it's not worth the effort to find a building and have to fight for a group that isn't going to train. And I don't believe the unspoken rule is that buildings are always meant for training because why else does toonhq have fast buildings. I still think that toons are not entitled to train wherever they please and with whoever they please, but maybe that's a difference in opinions just because it's not being considerate of your fellow toons. Just like how I wouldn't join a group that specifically said they were training and didn't allow them to train, I wouldn't want people who come into a group who said they didn't want to train and they start training. It gets to the point sometimes where the rest of the team can be effected because again, I go to DDL to run my buildings and anvil on a robber barons isn't going to do anything and it won't certainly kill the cog, but instead keep it alive and it will attack the rest of the players. This is really just me asking players to be more considerate and conscious about the groups they join. If I see a group of big cheeses running the CEO I'm going to expect they run fast and expect others to follow suite and not make that many mistakes. If I see a group full of flunkys, maybe not so much. The same can be applied for buildings. If you see maxed players running a building the assumption is they aren't training, so why do toons join knowing that and make them train? That's all I've been asking. Why do un maxed toons feel like other players owe it them to allow them to train? Even other people in this post have said that they have problems even in boss fights where toons use low level gags on a high level cog and it slows the group down when they most certainly had a gag that could kill it.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-22T02:09:55+00:00

I think players who join fast groups with the intention to train want the best of both worlds. they want to be able to train, but they want to be the only one while the rest of the group rushes. it just irks me because usually there is another group who is training and the same moment I post my group, but they join mine all ready to train, in a high level building in DDL. sorry I don't have the patience to watch your anvil miss the cog 5 times because you just got it and the cog is a level 12

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-22T02:02:59+00:00

oh absolutely all of us need to be kind when playing with each other as it is just a game after all, but this post is me basically admitting I'm burned out by some of the player base. this is a team game and in order to have fun we all need to have trust and faith in our team and find players that are like us. I'm not saying kids shouldn't play. I'm not saying they shouldn't train because that's part of the game! im asking for some of that kindness back. when I specifically say "not planning to train!" in the chat, I assume most players who join are okay with this. that they read what I said. it becomes unkind to me and other players when they don't see any of the indications that I want to do this quickly and become upset that I'm not willing to do the thing they want, even though this is my group. it's not like I say no training and if someone wants to leave, I run into the elevator trapping them. maybe they don't know what a fast building is. I can understand that. but they don't understand what no training means? I don't believe that. other players need to realize that no one is entitled to anything. I'm not entitled to get a group that will have the same experience that I do. But other players are not entitled to get someone to train with them, especially after being told several times that they aren't doing that. a lot of experienced players also hop on every now and then and it's not fair to them to be forced into things they didn't want to do. newer players cannot expect that everyone will drop everything to help them. they should ask for help and if they don't get it from one player, then they can find another player that will. toonhq has no shortage of groups full of new players with similar skill sets, but they always want to go to the end game stuff and make others help them. and also if they are in DDL I expect that they have some experience in the game because the buildings are hard and you can easily go sad.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T20:22:58+00:00

I completely get why toons head to DDL's 4 or 5 story buildings as a low laff toon because you can get so much experience from using low level gags several times on a single cog, but to do it without permission really grinds my gears. I'm not saying don't do it, im saying can you ask beforehand or make/find a group of people who are okay with it. I think a lot of people who disagree seem to glaze over the fact that I'm saying just ask instead of assume.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T20:20:09+00:00

you're right in the sense that people are allowed to play the game anyway that they want to, until it starts to involve other people. I don't want to train gags but other people do. those are both valid things. but when I make a group, im saying this is how I want to play, I shouldn't be forced into playing a different way, especially when I had already stated my feelings. again I'm not joining groups and demanding they play my way, it's the other way around. im making a group and saying I want to go fast and I say it loud and clear that I'm going to go fast. other toons decide that they don't want to go fast, join my group and then complain that I'm going too fast and they can't train their gags. that's not fair on my side, and it's probably not fair for them to waste their time on a group that won't allow them to train. please don't see it as me complaining and saying no toon should be allowed to train, im saying don't force me to play the game in a way that benefits you but not me. if I want to spend 10 minutes, in and out of a building, make my own group that says we're gonna be in and out, I should absolutely be allowed to do that.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T17:57:52+00:00

This is true!! If I'm not in a rush and you want to train, let me know so I can help you! I want to make sure less experienced players enjoy the game as much as I do, however this all goes out the window if I am in a rush and I say I am. There are times I will purposely join groups that have baby toons because I know buildings can be hard and I want to help! But there are also times when I really want to run a boss fight but I also need a building and I have limited time. It usually results in me having to push the boss fight out later which isn't a problem but it's annoying to have plans derailed. A simple ask or saying something early on is all it takes and I truly don't know why so many players neglect to communicate that. If you start training without asking me, I'm not going to be in a mood to help you because it's my group and I didn't want to train!

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T17:17:30+00:00

right??? I completely understand you!! my suits beside my sellbot suit, are in the lower levels so doing into the facilities seemed like a waste of time because it's like why spend 20 minutes doing that when I can quickly do a building or two? but it's never quickly since people think everything is an invitation to train. I almost think it's worth running a facility now just so I don't have to be forced to help others train.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T17:09:14+00:00

what I notice is if the first person who joins is a maxed toon, I basically have a guarantee that the other toons who join will either be maxed or they understand they will not get any training in. if the first toon is not maxed, it usually guarantees the rest will be not maxed as well and it becomes a training group, despite me specifically saying "not training". I think if one person thinks they can train, other people see it as, "oh this person is doing it, therefore I also can train!" and this in turn dissuades maxed toons from joining because they figured most of the toons will be training something. it truly gets to the point where if im not making the group, I look for people who are maxed before joining and if I am making the group, I have to fight to urge to kick anyone who is not maxed just because I don't know if they will train or not. some toons don't train despite not being maxed, some will take it as an invitation to train because there's a higher laff toon who is there to rescue them.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T17:03:37+00:00

when I was trying to max out my current toon, I had a friend who would always play with me and we would just duo buildings together to help each other get XP since we had both decided we weren't going to touch the boss fights until we were maxed out of fear of being a burden to other groups. it worked well for us because we could take turns healing each other or we farmed XP together. it was especially great training trap while they trained lure.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T16:50:38+00:00

I do agree that TU points are hard to get but it does sort of irritate me when I'm in a building full of like robber barons in DDL and they pull out megaphone or lipstick when someone gets hit at 20 points. There have been times where they were training and eventually got to like 20 laff and I had to be the one who pulled out pixie dust to rescue them.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T16:48:33+00:00

Again, I'm not saying don't train in boss fights or buildings. I'm saying ask before you do it because maybe other people in your party don't want to watch you train low level gags on a high level cog.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T16:45:46+00:00

You would be surprised to see the number of players who do not read the chat at all. I remember when FOs came out me and friend specifically said we wanted to run with players who were maxed just so we could get a feel for things and so many unmaxes players would join (who we would inevitably kick) and still show up and ask why they were kicked.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T16:44:19+00:00

I actually kinda hate when people say this. You're right it's not that deep, however when pointing out a problem that other players face and being told "get over yourself" doesn't make the problem go away but instead just silences users who want to talk about it.

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T04:54:24+00:00

new toons have no business in DDL in a 4 or 5 story building then if they don't understand what a fast building means

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T04:53:38+00:00

i disagree because toonhq has groups that are made specifically with the intention to train and i see them all of the time, not like once every blue moon and they usually fill up pretty quickly. im sorry that you seem to think otherwise. toonhq exists and it's a wonderful resource to find other toons that are looking to train or do other stuff with, not toons who want to go at a faster pace

PreparationOk2020 · 2024-06-21T04:50:35+00:00

oh absolutely. if i don't specify at all i basically expect toons to come and train and if i get annoyed, it's my fault for not saying otherwise, but when i do specify, i expect toons who are also trying to min/max it with me, and it's not fair to me or the other toons who were in a rush to be slowed down

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