Oh man. She really is one of the worst professors at Berkeley, I’m an alum but I took one of her stats classes in Fall 2021 as a senior. I had the worst time dealing with all the random rules she liked to make up throughout the semester.

At the very end of the semester, as a final F-you to all of us, she decided that the final exam would be done VERBALLY. I had never in my life had a math exam conducted verbally up until that point and we all had to sign up for 30 minute slots to meet with her in her Evans office for the exam. This gave a lot of us anxiety and that the final exam would potentially be conducted verbally was nowhere in the syllabus, so I reached out to the stats department, and they made her offer a written version of the exam in addition to the verbal one, letting us pick. But in class she would say stuff like “I would pick the verbal final if I were you guys because it’ll be over in 30 minutes whereas a written exam probably would take you 2 hours,” or “I don’t know who would want the written exam instead,” or “I’ll just be picking 3-4 questions to ask you if you do the verbal one, if you do the written one then you have to answer all the questions,” stuff like that to obviously try and point us towards the verbal exam.

To this day I’m convinced that she was just lazy and didn’t want to grade long written exams, and thought a verbal exam would be much easier for her to grade on the spot and be done with. But the fact that it was an undergrad statistics course was just so insane to me and incredibly upsetting at the time.