Michael Durst

Durst was a great professor and the way the class was set up was very accommodating. We had nine regular labs (you drop your lowest two grades) and one independent lab. There was also one essay but it was spread out over the semester so it didn't feel like a lot. The only advice I have is to stay on top of the labs, it is tempting to use the large grace period but makes the labs harder.

Durst was a great professor and the way the class was set up was very accommodating. We had nine regular labs (you drop your lowest two grades) and one independent lab. There was also one essay but it was spread out over the semester so it didn't feel like a lot. The only advice I have is to stay on top of the labs, it is tempting to …Read more

PHYS 222 was brutal. The labs were tedious and seemed to take way longer than they should have. Instructions were often pretty unclear and it seemed like everyone in the class was pretty fed up with it all by the end.

This course is heavy on the lab write ups and sometimes it can feel tedious doing them because you will have to consider all the formatting and where to get certain values and plots for calculations of uncertainty. Besides the sometimes unclear expectations and having to pay close attention to strict guidelines, the physics of the labs are relatively straightforward.