Chan Lin

This professor has taught: BIOL708E, BSCI170, BSCI329, BSCI339P, BSCI353, BSCI356, BSCI431, BSCI452, NACS728N, NEUR306, NEUR479

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Chan Lin BSCI170 Anonymous 12/04/2024	There's honestly not really a reason to complain. It is evident that this is the first time he is teaching a 100 level class but he's been very lenient because of it. After seeing that our first exam average was a 72 (which honestly doesn't even seem that bad) he decided that our lowest of 3 midterms would be dropped. He makes the weekly quizzes open note and even re-uses the questions for the exams. The only gripe that I have with the course is that he likes to do random participation questions which basically acts as attendance
Chan Lin BSCI170 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/02/2024	Dr. Lin is an alright professor. I can tell that he knows his material, however it sometimes feels like he assumes that we know the material too and does not thoroughly explain the material. Because of his teaching styles, I am struggling a little bit in this class. The average on his exams are a 70 but one of the exams does get dropped. He doesn't do a good job preparing for the exams. I will say that I will study all the material for only 1/3 of it to be on the exam. As a person, he cares a lot about his students and likes to make jokes every once in a while. Overall, the class itself is kinda a mess and I would not take it again.
Chan Lin BSCI170 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/23/2024	One of my favorite professors at UMD by far! Dr. Lin is an excellent professor. He explains the topics so well, is funny, and is very reasonable when it comes to the material tested on the exams. A lot of the questions are just repeats of the weekly quizzes (which are open-note). I would recommend Dr. Lin to anyone taking BSCI170 because he makes it genuinely interesting.
Chan Lin BSCI170 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/23/2024	Chan is a very okay lecturer. He tries to make his lectures somewhat interesting and engaging, but his pacing was absolutely awful for the semester. We were behind on content for almost the entire semester because he keeps on yapping about stuff that he then tells us will NOT be on the exam. He rushed through the last few topics in the last few classes, so be prepared to get a study group together to learn all the content yourselves. Attend the GSSes that the TA's hold. He's an easy grader and the exams are relatively easy. You do NOT need to get the textbook, I used online resources for the most part and the slides, and that worked perfectly fine. The first exam was very bio chem heavy, but I want to blame that on the fact that it's his first time teaching the course, and he didn't know how to write a 100 lvl test.
Chan Lin BSCI170 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/20/2024	Dont know why people rate Dr Lin low. He truly cares for students and does well to make the class engaging. He is very funny and has great one liners. Kinda difficult class but as the semester has gone on, he has done a really good job letting us know what is the important information we need to know.
Chan Lin BSCI339P Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/11/2024	Pretty relaxed course as far as summer courses go. Dr. Lin is a smart, chill guy. The class has a few quizzes and paper assignments and a 10 page paper at the end with a presentation. All online.
Chan Lin BSCI353 Anonymous 08/03/2023	I do not recommend Dr. Lin for neuro. His lectures were not engaging and he was very condescending towards students during class. I remember several times when a student asked a question and he basically laughed at them. The same thing would happen on exams where he would put a question regarding material we have never seen before and when I asked for clarification, I was told to read the question (which was very discouraging considering 1. I did read it and 2. how hard I had studied for that exam). I am disappointed overall because I had really looked forward to this class and did not have a good experience because of the professor specifically.
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting a B Anonymous 06/30/2023	• content is kinda difficult, especially if you're taking it before mamphys and never properly understood neuro stuff • don't slack off bc it's not an easy class to finesse • he's sweet tho (and fair-ish)
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting an A pavanbhat0710 05/27/2023	Dr. Lin is a really good teacher, he doesn't bombard you with slides and the pace of the class is really good. he also records all of his lectures which is super useful - every Monday there was a worksheet session which we had to go into class for, but besides that, you didn't have to go. His exams were also very fair and some of the questions were pulled directly from worksheets and the weekly quizzes we had.
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/24/2023	I did not vibe with Prof Lin. It felt like we dwelled so much on these few topics while skipping over others entirely. There were these weekly worksheets done in class as part of a group, and they were quite frankly the worst. I would much rather have done it as an individual assignment at home than have attendance taken to make sure I'm doing an assignment. I very often found myself falling asleep during class, or just straight up walking out because I did not find the lecture engaging at all.
Chan Lin BSCI452 Anonymous 05/12/2023	Bro is buggin with the averages this semester
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/18/2023	Dr. Lin is a very sweet person, and is very open to questions - he won't ever make you feel stupid and takes the time to thoroughly answer questions. His lecture style is honestly amazing, haven't heard anyone who didn't like it. He makes mundane topics pretty interesting and makes it seem like you're listening to a story in class. Unfortunately, however, his exams are a different story. You'll think you understand the content in lecture, you'll think you know what the main ideas are, you'll know the concepts of the main experiments, and then he'll throw questions at you on the exam which test minute concepts from one slide of one lecture out of a 50 slide lecture, with the question being worth 15% of the points of that exam. On top of that, there was no curve this semester. Beware that the class is getting harder. tl;dr amazing guy, wonderful lecturer, very sweet, but exams are difficult and the class is getting harder.
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2022	Dr. Lin is a great professor and really seems to know his stuff. The only reason why I wouldn't give a 5 star is because of the first midterm exam which pretty much the entire class failed. There were too many questions and some of the questions were vague. The exam completely blindsided the class. Dr. Lin even gave us a mini-exam before the midterm to give us a feel of how the first midterm would be like, all I can say is that is that there was no resemblance at all. But his second and final exams were much better. The quizzes luckily were straightforward. One thing I enjoyed was the clinical scenarios that he put in our group worksheets, the only aspect about the worksheets I didn't like was that my group would hardly show up to class to discuss the worksheet lol. The TAs are nice and answer questions that we have about the worksheets. I would highly recommend reading the textbook for this class, it does a good job clarifying the lecture material plus one of the questions on his exams relate to something specifically from the textbook.
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2021	By far the nicest and understanding Professor I had at UMD who truly wants his students to do well. Exams are very fair and he is very accommodating. The material for this course is really interesting and you will definitely learn a lot, and Dr. Lin just makes learning this course 1000x better. He never tried to rush through material and answers all questions. He definitely knows what he’s talking about and encourages people to add questions on the discussion board or make appointments with him if we need clarification on anything. This course was the highlight of my semester. Great professor, great course.
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2021	Dr. Lin is a kind professor and he is always willing to answer any questions that you might have during class. Overall, he is a great professor, and if you happen to not understand something he provides the textbook pages that correspond to his lectures for reading purposes. I would definitely recommend him!
Chan Lin BSCI353 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2021	I noticed that there aren't too many reviews on here, so I figured I'd leave one :) If you're taking BSCI353, I HIGHLY recommend you take Professor Lin!! He is an incredibly accommodating professor and very easy to approach for questions and course suggestions. The material isn't too bad, though it does take some time to get used to it. His lecture pace is quite lovely and I never feel like I can't catch up. He uploads all of his lecture recordings onto ELMS so you don't really have to come to class (but it's much nicer to sit in the lecture room tbh). The exam material is VERY fair, includes extra credit, and there is a good mix of multiple choice and free-response application based questions on there. He recommends that you read the textbook to keep up with the material, but his lectures cover pretty much everything you need to know for exams and the hw quizzes - the textbook is helpful for clarification or to answer worksheet questions tho! Overall, highly recommend if you have the option to take him :)
Chan Lin BSCI353 Anonymous 01/12/2021	fair, obviously cares about teaching, reasonable, flexible, communicative, knows what he's talking about. What's not to like?