Reviews of professor Lyren Chiu

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very very thick accent you can hardly understand and has outrageously poor grammar. Unclear instructions and expectations for projects/assignments and won't clarify when asked, then marks incredibly hard based on criteria not specified in the outline or syllabus. Very impatient and rude. I give her a 0/5, avoid her at all costs.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had Lyren for both 4122 and 2221. Lyren truly cares about her students and wants everyone to pass. We also left 20 minutes early each class. Although she made us make attendance sheets for ourselves, attendance was not mandatory. She responds quick to emails, including weekends.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Lyren is very smart, she just isn't a good teacher. She doesn't make the exams and doesn't know what is on them so it's frustrating if you wanna ask her any questions about it. Seemed like she was kinda clueless about the class as well. She's an easy marker though and pretty nice. Just read the powerpoint slides and you'll be fine.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lyren isn't as bad as all the other reviews are saying. She doesn't have an accent anymore and you can understand what she's saying. She's an easy marker but the lectures are boring and tests are difficult to study for cause she doesn't make the questions.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She recognizes how dry N2221 is and tries her best but we still zone out. Group projects, discussion postings, and quizzes were all incredibly easy (they were almost like completion marks). She boasts about the last cohort's high marks and it's no joke. If you manage to have office hours with her she's actually very sweet and very accomplished.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Id like to say she had any helpful advice, but she didnt. Clueless, clueless, clueless teacher. God help the next student that gets to battle through her ESL conversations with the class while she attacks and belittles people for not having the exact answer her small mind can conjure up. Tests suck because she has no idea whats on them. goodluck

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Sweet lady but very hard to understand through her thick accent. She does want her students to do well and does not mark harshly. Lectures were not very helpful because it was hard to understand what she was saying

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lyren is fine, she can be difficult to understand and expects students to have the "right" answer when she asks a discussion question. She gives a decent amount of guidance on projects. She isn't terrible and it's easy to do well in her class, but she definitely isn't warm and fuzzy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She gave a very bad grade for my group project without any reasons.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lyren is extremely unhelpful when it comes to knowing what is on the midterm and final (as she doesn't make them or even take a look over them), so don't even bother to ask. Most of the info needed for tests are on her powerpoints, but it does help to skim over the readings, as some questions in the exams aren't covered in the ppt.