Olga Parshina

Research Method, the heardest psych core! I think that taking it with Olga made it so much more doable. She is so supporting, kind and flexible. She always takes feedback and tries her best to accomodate to her students' needs. There is endless writing, so obviously that is expected since it is a CW class. However, if I had taken it with another professor, I don't know if I would come out with this much knowledge as I have with Olga. She makes the class doable and explains everything in simple words, instead of assuming we know everything - from stats to literature to writing sections of a paper. We do have weekly quizzes and two exams (take home, and open note), A few lab write ups which are just the components of the final paper (the labs make it so much easier to write the final paper). And a few low-stake in class activities (popup). If you absolutely hate stem research stuff but want to learn it efficiently and in a chill manner, def take it with Olga! Thanks to Olga for literally saving my life. Oh, and she also gives so many opportunities for extra-credit. She truly wants her students to succeed!

Research Method, the heardest psych core! I think that taking it with Olga made it so much more doable. She is so supporting, kind and flexible. She always takes feedback and tries her best to accomodate to her students' needs. There is endless writing, so obviously that is expected since it is a CW class. However, if I had taken it …Read more

Olga is honestly the best professor that there is. I was scared going into intro to psycholinguistics but it was the best class I ever took. She is so so kind and super accomodating to her students' needs. She is passionate about what she teaches and very knowledgeable. The class has weekly exams (take home, open note), and a final paper and a final exam (take home, open note). And in-class activities which can/cannot be open note, but are super easy and low stakes. She makes this class so so interesting and its honestly so chill and easygoing class!

Olga is honestly the best professor that there is. I was scared going into intro to psycholinguistics but it was the best class I ever took. She is so so kind and super accomodating to her students' needs. She is passionate about what she teaches and very knowledgeable. The class has weekly exams (take home, open note), and a final p …Read more

I will preface this by saying I absolutely despise the course content, because I am not interested at all in the "research" circle of Psychology. However, had I taken this course with anyone but Olga, I definitely would've dropped the class. Essentially, the entire class revolves around us building on the research project we choose near the beginning of the semester, with weekly take-home quizzes and 2 exams. Her expectations and syllabus were laid out in a clear manner, so as long as we gave ourselves enough time to work on our each designated section of the research project as per the syllabus, the class was manageable. Although I absolutely hated the class because of how much work had to be poured into it, the sole reason I managed to pull through was that Olga is such a chill professor, and her teaching of this course, in comparison to other professors, in my opinion, seemed significantly more manageable and less fast-paced (although it was still pretty fast-paced). Definitely recommend taking Research Methods with Olga if you need to take it for the Psych Major.

I will preface this by saying I absolutely despise the course content, because I am not interested at all in the "research" circle of Psychology. However, had I taken this course with anyone but Olga, I definitely would've dropped the class. Essentially, the entire class revolves around us building on the research project we choose n …Read more