Reviews of professor Amy Connolly

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Amy is great at explaining topics and cares for her students. She has two grading options: take the 3 exams and have your lowest exam grade dropped or do well on the first two midterms and you can skip the final. Do the practice sets she posts! They prepare you very well for the exams (and sometimes questions in the problem sets are on the exam).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Any general biology class is pretty tough, but Amy was the best professor out of all of the terms I have taken and was a great professor to end the sequence with. She was way more down to earth and understanding towards students, and really gave time for you to ask questions and figure out practice problems during the lectures.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I felt like she was very unaccommodating during COVID (multiple students complained about being unable to go back to previous questions on the tests). Tests had things we hadn't seen before on them. Don't take this online. I thought I had a B- at the end but she changed the grading cutoffs immensely without telling us so I got a C+, so frustrating.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Amy is really sweet and smart, but frankly not very good at lecturing. Lectures are long and boring, and she posts videos covering the content before so they're kind of pointless. There are so many assignments it's difficult to keep track of them if you're a self studier like me. The two midterm exams + final aren't bad, your lowest is dropped

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Connolly was very unaccommodating during the Covid-19 situation. We were unable to go back and check our answers during an exam on Canvas. I experienced some technical difficulties during the course, but these were not taken into account in the final grade. I don't recommend anyone taking BI214 online.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
she's super sporadic when she talks and not very well spoken. lectures are pointless since she uses videos recorded from covid as her way of lecturing. labs are boring and she's overall just not a well spoken professor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You'll be able to pass if you do everything due and work on the practice worksheets. We were only graded on labs, quizzes, and two exams. Prof. Connolly is super nice and made things very simple to understand. We were able to go back to exam questions. This class was easier than BI212, and if you know some ochem is pretty easy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Never have I had a prof. who asked each student for their name and tried to remember them. She is the sweetest human being and I loved the way her class was structured. Lecture videos were straightforward, and in class she goes over problems to deepen comprehension. Though the labs felt unnecessary aside from the last two.