Reviews of professor Laura Adams

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
she is awesome. physics is one of the hardest classes in college so class was hard. she posts every lecture notes ,not slides. so after class you can literally go over by yourself. tbh what I did during class, I was just listening her lecture, no note taking, and on that night I followed and copied her notes in canvas.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
As said before, this was her first semester teaching at the UMN so she does deserve some slack. However, her lectures are very tedious and often even annoying. Some test problems are straight from lecture, so try to pay attention. She often misses basic science concepts and does not take corrections immediately. Good person, bad professor so far.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Adams told us this was her first time teaching 1301, Intro to Physics, so maybe she is better in other courses. However, she did not leave a good impression. Her lectures are convoluted and boring, she does not properly answer questions, and she often says "this is an easy problem." Be ready to learn from the textbook.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Adams is really nice and funny (outside of class) but a terrible professor. The whole set up of her class makes no sense, lectures have no structure (pretty much do numerical problems without a good base of understanding). The class moves quickly, but the group exam portion is a nice buffer. Will learn 2 hours of new material day before exam.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Laura Adams would have been an okay professor, but I had her the first time she ever taught PHYS 1301W, so she was not prepared. She taught important things in lecture, but she always ran out of time, which made it necessary to read the textbook in order to complete homework and do well on tests. She was also unclear when answering questions.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I feel like most of the people that complain about Laura being a bad professor are just bad at physics. It's a difficult class. Yes, she isn't GREAT, but I haven't heard good things about any physics 1301 professor. The lecture notes she posts are super helpful and full of examples. Taking additional notes on those are what made me successful.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly, as awful as I'm doing in physics right now, it's not because of her. Physics is a difficult subject and not everyone has a "physics brain" (like me) so it takes a lot of outside work to understand what is happening. I can say though that Laura gave me a better understanding than I had before, and she really cares about her students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lectures are very boring, and sometimes she doesn't even explain how she solves the problems. She frequently says "This problem is easy, you'll be able to do it" without much explanation. The tests are difficult. She is more likely to speak out loud her notes than to give actual lectures in class.