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Siyu Shan AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/08/2024	Siyu is super patient and helpful! It's easy to get an A if you understand what you're doing in the lab.
Siyu Shan AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/03/2024	Siyu is nice and helpful in class. He was always walking around in the classroom and helping us. He organized the class efficiently and every student can finish the material on time. I never spent extra time after class, as he promised. I was worried when I found out I had to take a lab class, but this one has been pretty great.
Siyu Shan AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2024	Siyu is fantastic! Even though he is strict about deadlines, he is ALWAYS walking around to help us in class. I can definitely finish the lab questions in class with his guidance. I don't need to spend a single minute after class and get an A eventually!
Siyu Shan AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/11/2024	The labs were sometimes tedious but not too difficult for a lab science. He is kind of a hard grader but will explain the problems throughout the class time.
Gillian Felton AOSC201 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/08/2024	Very easy lab, partially because Gillian is so friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. Show up and you will get an A.
Siyu Shan AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/03/2024	The labs were sometimes tedious but never super hard, he can be a strict grader but he is very helpful if you ask him questions during the lab. As long as you go to lab every week and try your best you should end with an A.
Vincent Ferrera AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/30/2024	Vincent Ferrera has no idea what he is doing in the course. It's like somehow he accidentally landed this job at UMD with no intent of being helpful. Every time you ask him a question he avoids it to the top degree by answering your question with his own and answering his own proposed question. The lab is from 3:30 - 5:30, but it would be common to leave around 6 every time. Vincent Ferrera does not care about the course or it's content and will just return sassy comments when asked to be helpful.
Vincent Ferrera AOSC201 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/25/2024	Don't take lab with him he grades so harshly. My friends who had the other TA (the women) had easier labs with fewer questions and basically got a 100 on each one. VINCENT does not do that. he takes off so many points.
Gillian Felton AOSC201 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/13/2023	As long as you show up you should get a good grade. She goes over the lab in a mini lecture and then helps you with any questions you are stuck on
Gillian Felton AOSC201 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/13/2023	Very easy lab, Gillian made sure to answer all questions well and gave us tips for most questions before we started the assignments. Was usually finished in half of the time given for the lab.
Gillian Felton AOSC201 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/20/2022	Wonderful TA. She's so kind to the students and really cared about how we were doing in both her class and the main AOSC200 one. I had her as my TA for AOSC200 as well, and she was really generous with project grades and helpful with preparing for the final exam.
Erin Evans AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2022	She was awesome for lab, answering any questions about the lab and would often times discuss how it would be graded to make sure students would get the most points for the lab.
Gillian Felton AOSC201 Expecting an A+ maeveclare24 12/14/2022	Gillian was a great TA. I had her for lab and she was super helpful when I had questions about certain problems. It was her first time teaching and she did great! She also sent out review slides for the AOSC200 final to help anyone still taking the class who was studying which was super nice and helpful!
Akarsh Ralhan AOSC201 Expecting an A+ Payanak 10/20/2022	Awesome instructor- definitely enjoyed his section because of how helpful and insightful he was. Even got to know him a bit just cause he's a very approachable guy.
Akarsh Ralhan AOSC201 Expecting an A fiftyseven 05/16/2022	Great guy. Very approachable and you could always ask questions on any and everything during the lab and he would always clarify in a way such that you ended up feeling confident in both the concepts and the answers you put down. If you're ever unsure, just ask and he's happy to help.
Christopher Smith AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/23/2022	Chris, Akarsh, Natalia and Jhayron are kind and considerate TAs who truly care about their students well-being. I took this lab asynchronously online with AOSC200, and I have no regrets. Taking a weather lab online cuts a significant amount of time out of your schedule compared to taking it in person during the year, as the online labs provide you with most of the measurements of weather and all you have to do is compute formulas and analyze what they mean. There are 12 labs total, with 4 per week if taken during the 3 week winter session. Your lowest graded lab is dropped. The TAs go above and beyond in emailing students back in a timely fashion, and the daily office hours are fruitful in checking your lab before submitting it. Overall, this is the lab you want to take if in need of a DSNL without having it strain your regular schedule. It’s a good amount of work, but entirely worth it.
Natalia Roldan Henao AOSC201 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/22/2021	Natalia is an incredible TA. Lab with her was really easy to understand and she answered questions without directly giving us answers to the questions in the lab. The lab manual is recommended but you can find it online and print it out. She does a short lecture before starting the lab to explain the concepts and sends out google docs with tips on answering the questions. She is Colombian and has a little bit of an accent but you can still clearly understand everything she says
Hannah Daley AOSC201 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/14/2019	One of the most pointless classes here, but an easy, and I mean EASY A if you need to take a lab science. This class consists of a weekly lab where you basically plot a bunch of graphs from data tables, very similar to a first or second grade math class. They make sure to give you a lot of data though, so the plotting takes the majority of the time of the lab block.
Justin Hicks AOSC201 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/14/2019	The best and the nicest instructor that I've had so far

Siyu Shan
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/08/2024

Siyu is super patient and helpful! It's easy to get an A if you understand what you're doing in the lab.

Siyu Shan
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/03/2024

Siyu is nice and helpful in class. He was always walking around in the classroom and helping us. He organized the class efficiently and every student can finish the material on time. I never spent extra time after class, as he promised. I was worried when I found out I had to take a lab class, but this one has been pretty great.

Siyu Shan
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/15/2024

Siyu is fantastic! Even though he is strict about deadlines, he is ALWAYS walking around to help us in class. I can definitely finish the lab questions in class with his guidance. I don't need to spend a single minute after class and get an A eventually!

Siyu Shan
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/11/2024

The labs were sometimes tedious but not too difficult for a lab science. He is kind of a hard grader but will explain the problems throughout the class time.

Gillian Felton
AOSC201

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/08/2024

Very easy lab, partially because Gillian is so friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. Show up and you will get an A.

Siyu Shan
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/03/2024

The labs were sometimes tedious but never super hard, he can be a strict grader but he is very helpful if you ask him questions during the lab. As long as you go to lab every week and try your best you should end with an A.

Vincent Ferrera
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/30/2024

Vincent Ferrera has no idea what he is doing in the course. It's like somehow he accidentally landed this job at UMD with no intent of being helpful. Every time you ask him a question he avoids it to the top degree by answering your question with his own and answering his own proposed question. The lab is from 3:30 - 5:30, but it would be common to leave around 6 every time. Vincent Ferrera does not care about the course or it's content and will just return sassy comments when asked to be helpful.

Vincent Ferrera
AOSC201

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/25/2024

Don't take lab with him he grades so harshly. My friends who had the other TA (the women) had easier labs with fewer questions and basically got a 100 on each one. VINCENT does not do that. he takes off so many points.

Gillian Felton
AOSC201

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/13/2023

As long as you show up you should get a good grade. She goes over the lab in a mini lecture and then helps you with any questions you are stuck on

Gillian Felton
AOSC201

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/13/2023

Very easy lab, Gillian made sure to answer all questions well and gave us tips for most questions before we started the assignments. Was usually finished in half of the time given for the lab.

Gillian Felton
AOSC201

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/20/2022

Wonderful TA. She's so kind to the students and really cared about how we were doing in both her class and the main AOSC200 one. I had her as my TA for AOSC200 as well, and she was really generous with project grades and helpful with preparing for the final exam.

Erin Evans
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/16/2022

She was awesome for lab, answering any questions about the lab and would often times discuss how it would be graded to make sure students would get the most points for the lab.

Gillian Felton
AOSC201

Expecting an A+
maeveclare24
12/14/2022

Gillian was a great TA. I had her for lab and she was super helpful when I had questions about certain problems. It was her first time teaching and she did great! She also sent out review slides for the AOSC200 final to help anyone still taking the class who was studying which was super nice and helpful!

Akarsh Ralhan
AOSC201

Expecting an A+
Payanak
10/20/2022

Awesome instructor- definitely enjoyed his section because of how helpful and insightful he was. Even got to know him a bit just cause he's a very approachable guy.

Akarsh Ralhan
AOSC201

Expecting an A
fiftyseven
05/16/2022

Great guy. Very approachable and you could always ask questions on any and everything during the lab and he would always clarify in a way such that you ended up feeling confident in both the concepts and the answers you put down. If you're ever unsure, just ask and he's happy to help.

Christopher Smith
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/23/2022

Chris, Akarsh, Natalia and Jhayron are kind and considerate TAs who truly care about their students well-being. I took this lab asynchronously online with AOSC200, and I have no regrets. Taking a weather lab online cuts a significant amount of time out of your schedule compared to taking it in person during the year, as the online labs provide you with most of the measurements of weather and all you have to do is compute formulas and analyze what they mean. There are 12 labs total, with 4 per week if taken during the 3 week winter session. Your lowest graded lab is dropped. The TAs go above and beyond in emailing students back in a timely fashion, and the daily office hours are fruitful in checking your lab before submitting it. Overall, this is the lab you want to take if in need of a DSNL without having it strain your regular schedule. It’s a good amount of work, but entirely worth it.

Natalia Roldan Henao
AOSC201

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/22/2021

Natalia is an incredible TA. Lab with her was really easy to understand and she answered questions without directly giving us answers to the questions in the lab. The lab manual is recommended but you can find it online and print it out. She does a short lecture before starting the lab to explain the concepts and sends out google docs with tips on answering the questions. She is Colombian and has a little bit of an accent but you can still clearly understand everything she says

Hannah Daley
AOSC201

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/14/2019

One of the most pointless classes here, but an easy, and I mean EASY A if you need to take a lab science. This class consists of a weekly lab where you basically plot a bunch of graphs from data tables, very similar to a first or second grade math class. They make sure to give you a lot of data though, so the plotting takes the majority of the time of the lab block.

Justin Hicks
AOSC201

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/14/2019

The best and the nicest instructor that I've had so far

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