Reviews of professor Eliot Bush

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He sounds really confident in what he teaches, but this confidence does not really translate into the clarity of his lecture. He can be a little bit passive aggressive at times if you do not understand something, but is generally helpful in office hours and tries to read your code to help you debug a little bit.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is hard, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Professor Bush arranged lecture slides that were clear and I appreciated the asynchronous nature of the course during the pandemic. I also really found the structure of his course helpful and the topics in computational biology that he covered in the course were really exciting.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very accessible and willing to help you in office hours. Comp bio was a good class, which was pretty easy for me since I've taken a lot of CS but could probably be really hard if you haven't. Homework was almost all coding.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Interesting lecturer, cool material. Tests were not a good measure of understanding in the class, and were not representative of the homework content. Many questions were also written poorly so that it was easy to misinterpret and answer incorrectly even while knowing the material. Several questions had to be regraded after students complained.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Weirdly enthusiastic about HIV and cholera. The homework is very coding-heavy but the exams are very bio-heavy. Be prepared for harsh grading on the exams. Also not a very understanding or patient person when students ask for help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class is very CS heavy, be prepared to program!! Decent lectures, generally engaging, interesting content, 4.5/5 would do again.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This course is not reflective of the field of computational biology as a whole. If you took cs green, bio52, and/or intro comp bio, the topics covered in biol188 is really similar (if you liked that stuff you might like this class). Prof bush can get impatient in office hours, if you don't understand something and need clarification.