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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 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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