This class is extremely difficult for the one credit it is worth. There are so many different assignments to keep track of, including prelabs, inlabs, and postlabs. The lab reports are very difficult to do well on, and your grades are entirely dependent on the ta you get. Just hope you get a good group to work with and have a routine of who does which part of the lab report.

I've only seen Prof Bychkov a handful of times, but the TAs who ran the lab were both really nice and always helpful (shoutouts to omar and katie). The lab is very structured and you do all your work in a group, so the people in that group basically make or break your semester. I've heard they made the class more manageable for my year, and I gotta agree, but I still think it's way too much work for just 1 credit.