Reviews of professor Laura Loyola

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Loyola's lectures are super dense and doesn't explain concepts very well. Exams are grade very harshly, where there was only one A on both midterms. She doesn't give points back on exams even if you drive a hard argument. Group project can be stressful but are graded more leniently. Labs are VERY time consuming and require work outside class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The tests expect you to know things that the professor doesn't seem to know herself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Class has lots of theory and material is tested that isn't gone over in class. I went to her office hours with questions before the midterm and she didn't answer them. The labs take lots of time out of class and are very difficult. No one got a A on any of the midterms, and there's a big semester-long group project along with required Twitter posts

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Awful at explaining concepts in Lecture and the exams are graded very harshly and have material that is not on the slides. The lectures have a lot of information and she does not even go over all of it, she speaks very fast and expects you to remember everything. The Labs take soo long some of them up to 5+ hours. take another class! Not worth it

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Loyola was really receptive to people's questions and was extremely considerate during COVID. This class has a ton of textbook reading, but you can skim and be fine. She also gave some extra credit. It sometimes felt like she didn't totally understand what she was lecturing about, but it didn't impede my learning. She was pretty good overall.