Monica Przyperhart

This class is awesome!! It was fun having Mark and Monica co teach because they have very different teaching styles so you get a nice blend. Lab was so fun because most of it was just birding. There is a decent amount of work outside class but if you like birds like me its fun work.

Monica is the best!! Mark's teaching style is not my favorite (fast-paced, vocab heavy) but I still learned a lot. Mark's section of exams are mostly memorization of the lecture material, while Monica's sections are more applied ecology concepts. Labs were fun and pretty easy. My favorite part about this class is that I can now identify most birds in Vermont!

I loved Monica SO much but the lecture portion of this class with Peter Ryan couldn't have been more boring if it tried. Lab with Monica actually taught me a lot and also gave me a chance to connect to outdoor spaces around Middlebury which I really appreciated. Ryan's lecture, on the contrary, felt like a waste of time. Which was unfortunate because he is very kind!