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Huang Lin EPIB315 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2024	Dr. Lin is a very sweet professor though I do understand that people don't like him reading off slides. Personally I learn better teaching myself and utilizing the TA office hours but if you have a hard time taking initiative to figure stuff out on your own then this is probably a bad class. The person saying he moved an exam earlier for the Jewish holiday is lying. He had the exam listed on the syllabus as that day the whole semester. A week before he decided he wanted to give us more time and pushed it back a few days. After making this announcement someone quickly emailed him and told him it was a Jewish holiday and they wouldn't be there. As a result the same day he announced the pushing back of the exam he changed it back. So no, he does not blindside students by pushing up exams a week before, the exam was that date the entire time. The class is 10 percent per midterm (there are 2) and a 20 percent final. The rest of the class is homework's, in class quizzes, and discussion quizzes. Therefore, if you do good on those (which there is not really a reason not to) then you are fine. Also for exams he allows you to bring your own formula sheet so you can write down formulas you need for the exam. He also gave an extra credit assignment at the end of the semester to increase your grade by 5 percent if you got it right and it was not a crazy hard or long assignment.
Huang Lin EPIB315 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/11/2024	The way he lectures is very irritating, he reads over the slides and his exams (mostly the first 2) don't feel like a reflection of the content he taught. Depending on ur TA it can help boost ur grade or bring it down. Also, the homework takes too long and the averages are around 69%-70%, which is low for a public health course considering the fact this class is not curved. Avoid this class, or take another professor if possible!!! Also, it is very computation heavy and there aren't many opportunities to raise your grade.
Huang Lin EPIB315 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/03/2024	Dr. Lin is clearly knowledgeable about statistics, but he is not a good teacher. Reads directly from the slides and does not make the content easy to digest and understand. If it weren't for my TA, Chiti, I would be completely lost. The grading scale is lenient as each midterm exam is only 10% of your grade, but no curves on exams. Unless you are excellent at math, avoid this professor.
Huang Lin EPIB315 Expecting a B- Anonymous 11/27/2024	Don’t take this professor, new and has absolutely zero clue what he’s doing.
Huang Lin EPIB315 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/25/2024	I am pretty sure Professor Huang Lin is new to teaching. He reads word-for-word from slides and lacks a teaching style suited for university students. Homework assignments are far more difficult and lengthy than the examples covered in class, and he only goes over one simple example per topic. The course is unnecessarily hard, with averages close to C’s. If you're not interested in heavy statistics and advanced formulas, avoid this course. The TA grades everything, and office hours are poorly set up— there is no desk to work with students, his desk is covered, and there was only one extra chair. The course lacks structure. The first exam was moved three days earlier due to a Jewish holiday with less than a week's notice, and the second exam was on Election Day. He set a makeup exam deadline, then allowed MANY students to contact him WAY past the deadline, which was frustrating and extremely unfair. That was the first time I have even seen a professor do that. Assignments are due randomly at 9 PM, and pop quizzes are frequent. Discussion participation is mandatory, and there are also random quizzes. This class is a nightmare—disorganized and unpredictable. I strongly advise against taking this course with Professor Huang Lin, it'll tank your GPA.
Huang Lin EPIB315 Expecting a C Anonymous 11/15/2024	Currently in his class. He reads directly from his slides, and discussion sections are mandatory. They assign a code, so you have to attend your sections. There are also lecture pop quizzes at random times with a code only shown in class. He reads off the slides, so it feels as if I am not really learning. Test 1 and test 2 averages around 72-73%. There is also homework that is graded fairly but can be time-consuming if you're behind. Besides the homework, discussion quizzes, and lecture quizzes, there is not much you can do to bring your grade up. The professor is nice and understanding with absences, but there probably won't be any curve, so the class average will end up with around a C+. If you miss any lecture or discussion quiz, your grade goes down by a lot. Take another professor; you'd have to be scoring well above average to even get a B-.
Huang Lin EPIB315 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 10/25/2024	Currently, in his class, he reads directly off his slides and his TA's are even worse. I have such a hard time concentration due to the monotone reading. Prof Lin has a thick accent but it isn't crazy bad... The TA (Iris) literally doesn't look up from the computer because SHES READING OFF THE SLIDES (like prof like TA) . Respectfully I can do that too, so why am I forced to sit here for almost 3 hours in discussion and a 2 hours in lecture for reading slides i can do at home. He also has pop quizzes randomly, and they are nice about extensions and absences.
Jamie Trevitt EPIB315 Anonymous 05/07/2024	I had her for both EPIB301 and EPIB315 and if you can take her class over the winter/summer break, do it. It's so much easier and organized because you don't have to deal with the professor at all. The TAs handle everything. You will try to email her and an automated message will reply. For EPIB315, she refused to post the lecture slides BEFORE the lecture, and for good portion of this semester didn't even post the weekly module until the following week. Her exams are so disorganized, she reads off the slides, the TAs basically reteach you everything in discussion but you stil have to go to everything because there are random quizzes that she gives for attendance the very last few minutes of class.
Jamie Trevitt EPIB315 Anonymous 04/25/2024	I'll be honest, I like prof Trevitt. She listens to feedback when an assignment is made too difficult, and if we got hung up on a coding issue, or if there's a question that's way out of our depth, she'll outright give it to us. She's also humble and apologizes if we complain that something is too hard. I've spoken to her many times, and she's incredibly sweet and down-to-earth when she's not lecturing. Her lecture style can be described as decent. I feel like handwritten examples, or at least more animated examples would be more helpful in a class like this, though. Also, TAs are incredibly hit-or-miss. She gives a good overview but if your TA isn't all there, it can mean the difference between an A and a B. That being said, this isn't an easy class, it's not a fun class, statistics is extremely unforgiving and I find it harder than calculus.
Jamie Trevitt EPIB315 Anonymous 02/25/2024	She gets 2 stars because I've had way worse profs than prof Trevitt. That being said tho, the bar is in hell. She doesn't do the bare minimum when it comes to teaching. She reads straight from her slides, which come straight from the book. She does no practice problems, barely any examples, and just reads out the technicals. So, expect this class to be 100% self-taught. Unfortunately, you will have to show up to lectures, as there will be lecture quizzes.
Jamie Trevitt EPIB315 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/12/2023	It was really clear throughout the semester just how disorganized Dr. Trevitt is, both with students and behind the scenes. My TA was great (shoutout to Caitlyn!), but even she couldn't help much, since Dr. Trevitt wasn't communicating with the TA's well. Her exams were written last minute, we'd jump around in lectures and were a day behind almost the whole semester, things were set up in canvas incorrectly, homeworks were written or graded wrong and took a while to be fixed, exam grades took forever to come back (despite being online and mostly auto-graded), she didn't start posting lecture slides before class until a bunch of students asked for them, once they were posted they often had mistakes/typos in formulas that had to be corrected, etc. This class jumps from middle school level stats to college level stats very quickly, and the overall disorganization and lack of factually correct online resources/slides makes it really hard to be ready for that jump in difficulty.
Jamie Trevitt EPIB315 Anonymous 04/13/2023	Professor Trevitt is extraordinarily unorganized. On top of that she cannot answer simple questions based on her slides. If you do happen to ask a question she also is very rude and comes of condescending. I have nothing good to say about her. Biostat should have been an interesting course and she totally ruined it for me and makes me not want to go into statistics anymore. She is not clear about what is on exams, makes things more complicated than they need to be, and her "study guides"/"practice exams" are riddled with errors that make it even more confusing and hard to know what is correct and what is a typo. Stay far away from her and her class. Terrible in every way. She is not even a professor.
Lauren Kauffman EPIB315 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/11/2023	Lauren is pretty concise and professional in the way she presents things. Definitely not a bad TA.
Yan Li EPIB315 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/16/2021	Amazing professor! Really understanding and clearly cares about her students. Her exams and assignments are very reasonable. I learned a lot in this course.
Yan Li EPIB315 YT 12/16/2021	Don't really understand what she says and just reads slides. Learned more from my TA than her. Also gives pop quizzes during lecture so attendance is a must.

Huang Lin
EPIB315

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/14/2024

Dr. Lin is a very sweet professor though I do understand that people don't like him reading off slides. Personally I learn better teaching myself and utilizing the TA office hours but if you have a hard time taking initiative to figure stuff out on your own then this is probably a bad class. The person saying he moved an exam earlier for the Jewish holiday is lying. He had the exam listed on the syllabus as that day the whole semester. A week before he decided he wanted to give us more time and pushed it back a few days. After making this announcement someone quickly emailed him and told him it was a Jewish holiday and they wouldn't be there. As a result the same day he announced the pushing back of the exam he changed it back. So no, he does not blindside students by pushing up exams a week before, the exam was that date the entire time. The class is 10 percent per midterm (there are 2) and a 20 percent final. The rest of the class is homework's, in class quizzes, and discussion quizzes. Therefore, if you do good on those (which there is not really a reason not to) then you are fine. Also for exams he allows you to bring your own formula sheet so you can write down formulas you need for the exam. He also gave an extra credit assignment at the end of the semester to increase your grade by 5 percent if you got it right and it was not a crazy hard or long assignment.

Huang Lin
EPIB315

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/11/2024

The way he lectures is very irritating, he reads over the slides and his exams (mostly the first 2) don't feel like a reflection of the content he taught. Depending on ur TA it can help boost ur grade or bring it down. Also, the homework takes too long and the averages are around 69%-70%, which is low for a public health course considering the fact this class is not curved. Avoid this class, or take another professor if possible!!! Also, it is very computation heavy and there aren't many opportunities to raise your grade.

Huang Lin
EPIB315

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/03/2024

Dr. Lin is clearly knowledgeable about statistics, but he is not a good teacher. Reads directly from the slides and does not make the content easy to digest and understand. If it weren't for my TA, Chiti, I would be completely lost. The grading scale is lenient as each midterm exam is only 10% of your grade, but no curves on exams. Unless you are excellent at math, avoid this professor.

Huang Lin
EPIB315

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
11/27/2024

Don’t take this professor, new and has absolutely zero clue what he’s doing.

Huang Lin
EPIB315

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/25/2024

I am pretty sure Professor Huang Lin is new to teaching. He reads word-for-word from slides and lacks a teaching style suited for university students. Homework assignments are far more difficult and lengthy than the examples covered in class, and he only goes over one simple example per topic. The course is unnecessarily hard, with averages close to C’s. If you're not interested in heavy statistics and advanced formulas, avoid this course. The TA grades everything, and office hours are poorly set up— there is no desk to work with students, his desk is covered, and there was only one extra chair. The course lacks structure. The first exam was moved three days earlier due to a Jewish holiday with less than a week's notice, and the second exam was on Election Day. He set a makeup exam deadline, then allowed MANY students to contact him WAY past the deadline, which was frustrating and extremely unfair. That was the first time I have even seen a professor do that. Assignments are due randomly at 9 PM, and pop quizzes are frequent. Discussion participation is mandatory, and there are also random quizzes. This class is a nightmare—disorganized and unpredictable. I strongly advise against taking this course with Professor Huang Lin, it'll tank your GPA.

Huang Lin
EPIB315

Expecting a C
Anonymous
11/15/2024

Currently in his class. He reads directly from his slides, and discussion sections are mandatory. They assign a code, so you have to attend your sections. There are also lecture pop quizzes at random times with a code only shown in class. He reads off the slides, so it feels as if I am not really learning. Test 1 and test 2 averages around 72-73%. There is also homework that is graded fairly but can be time-consuming if you're behind. Besides the homework, discussion quizzes, and lecture quizzes, there is not much you can do to bring your grade up. The professor is nice and understanding with absences, but there probably won't be any curve, so the class average will end up with around a C+. If you miss any lecture or discussion quiz, your grade goes down by a lot. Take another professor; you'd have to be scoring well above average to even get a B-.

Huang Lin
EPIB315

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
10/25/2024

Currently, in his class, he reads directly off his slides and his TA's are even worse. I have such a hard time concentration due to the monotone reading. Prof Lin has a thick accent but it isn't crazy bad... The TA (Iris) literally doesn't look up from the computer because SHES READING OFF THE SLIDES (like prof like TA) . Respectfully I can do that too, so why am I forced to sit here for almost 3 hours in discussion and a 2 hours in lecture for reading slides i can do at home. He also has pop quizzes randomly, and they are nice about extensions and absences.

Jamie Trevitt
EPIB315

Anonymous
05/07/2024

I had her for both EPIB301 and EPIB315 and if you can take her class over the winter/summer break, do it. It's so much easier and organized because you don't have to deal with the professor at all. The TAs handle everything. You will try to email her and an automated message will reply. For EPIB315, she refused to post the lecture slides BEFORE the lecture, and for good portion of this semester didn't even post the weekly module until the following week. Her exams are so disorganized, she reads off the slides, the TAs basically reteach you everything in discussion but you stil have to go to everything because there are random quizzes that she gives for attendance the very last few minutes of class.

Jamie Trevitt
EPIB315

Anonymous
04/25/2024

I'll be honest, I like prof Trevitt. She listens to feedback when an assignment is made too difficult, and if we got hung up on a coding issue, or if there's a question that's way out of our depth, she'll outright give it to us. She's also humble and apologizes if we complain that something is too hard. I've spoken to her many times, and she's incredibly sweet and down-to-earth when she's not lecturing. Her lecture style can be described as decent. I feel like handwritten examples, or at least more animated examples would be more helpful in a class like this, though. Also, TAs are incredibly hit-or-miss. She gives a good overview but if your TA isn't all there, it can mean the difference between an A and a B. That being said, this isn't an easy class, it's not a fun class, statistics is extremely unforgiving and I find it harder than calculus.

Jamie Trevitt
EPIB315

Anonymous
02/25/2024

She gets 2 stars because I've had way worse profs than prof Trevitt. That being said tho, the bar is in hell. She doesn't do the bare minimum when it comes to teaching. She reads straight from her slides, which come straight from the book. She does no practice problems, barely any examples, and just reads out the technicals. So, expect this class to be 100% self-taught. Unfortunately, you will have to show up to lectures, as there will be lecture quizzes.

Jamie Trevitt
EPIB315

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/12/2023

It was really clear throughout the semester just how disorganized Dr. Trevitt is, both with students and behind the scenes. My TA was great (shoutout to Caitlyn!), but even she couldn't help much, since Dr. Trevitt wasn't communicating with the TA's well. Her exams were written last minute, we'd jump around in lectures and were a day behind almost the whole semester, things were set up in canvas incorrectly, homeworks were written or graded wrong and took a while to be fixed, exam grades took forever to come back (despite being online and mostly auto-graded), she didn't start posting lecture slides before class until a bunch of students asked for them, once they were posted they often had mistakes/typos in formulas that had to be corrected, etc. This class jumps from middle school level stats to college level stats very quickly, and the overall disorganization and lack of factually correct online resources/slides makes it really hard to be ready for that jump in difficulty.

Jamie Trevitt
EPIB315

Anonymous
04/13/2023

Professor Trevitt is extraordinarily unorganized. On top of that she cannot answer simple questions based on her slides. If you do happen to ask a question she also is very rude and comes of condescending. I have nothing good to say about her. Biostat should have been an interesting course and she totally ruined it for me and makes me not want to go into statistics anymore. She is not clear about what is on exams, makes things more complicated than they need to be, and her "study guides"/"practice exams" are riddled with errors that make it even more confusing and hard to know what is correct and what is a typo. Stay far away from her and her class. Terrible in every way. She is not even a professor.

Lauren Kauffman
EPIB315

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/11/2023

Lauren is pretty concise and professional in the way she presents things. Definitely not a bad TA.

Yan Li
EPIB315

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/16/2021

Amazing professor! Really understanding and clearly cares about her students. Her exams and assignments are very reasonable. I learned a lot in this course.

Yan Li
EPIB315

YT
12/16/2021

Don't really understand what she says and just reads slides. Learned more from my TA than her. Also gives pop quizzes during lecture so attendance is a must.

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