Made the class fun and interesting, there was homework and pre-readings but they were easy and only took a couple minutes, if you ever fell behind in them she made sure to check in with you to see if everything was okay was very open to questions in class and answered them right there, just a total peach.

Robin is a great prof! Makes lectures interesting even about boring stuff - keeps it interactive. Definitely would take her course again! Great prof.

Dr. Robin Young is an awesome prof! She cares alot about her students and understands that you have other courses then just hers. There were a few times where we just practiced all the stuff we had learn't so far because she had heard from the other profs that we had a tough week due to midterms in other classes.

A gem in the biology department. She is very caring towards her students. She is the best and when someone doesn't understand something she takes the time to explain it.

The group projects were useless. However, the class itself was interesting. Robin has chaotic energy but that made lectures entertaining. The midterm and final were both fair.

During lectures, we would work on worksheets to help understand main concepts, which was helpful for the exams. You really need to understand and know the pathways and cycles to do well. Participation based work was worth 25%, midterm 30% and the final was 45%. She was very helpful and flexible with the course during the covid online transition.

My favourite prof by far, she cares a lot bout her students and teaches in an engaging manner!!!

She's a really good prof and I think her greatest strength is her personality - Lets the chat stay active and engages with students throughout the lecture, making class more enjoyable. Coursework overall is pretty average. She's awesome.

Dr. Young has been an amazing professor. She assures that everything is accessible for students. I think she only gets a bad rep for her sarcasm and people mistake that for being "rude". The workload is very manageable and the midterms are fair. She cares about the students and always interacts with us in class. Take her class!

Overall Robin Young was a great prof. She made the lectures fun all while learning. Her class was by far my favourite class and would definitely recommend her.

Dr. Young is a really awesome prof and her lectures are really enjoyable. She's funny and the chat during her class is great. The only bad thing is the amount of work outside class and that she is not great at responding to emails. I didn't do most of the weekly readings because they were overwhelming. Would take class again just for the lectures.

Really good prof. The lectures were really great and the marking was fair. The midterms weighed for a lot and they were difficult though. Study your diagrams! She's just very kind and if you come to class early you can talk to her and she cares about how we're doing. The class average was an A (80).

She really cares for people who's taking biology for the first time in forever. Lectures were designed to make biology seem less daunting. I had fun with the activities she rolled out for us and the lectures were smooth. Would definitely take her class again if I have the chance to. Labs were straightforward too, just make sure you know your stuff.

Dr Robin was amazing! Shes very easygoing and open to students. Lectures were very clear, the slides were really useful for studying and the activities we did in class (specially for unit 3) were really fun. We didnt have a lot of assignments, only the website for the readings was frustrating.

Dr. Robin has been my favourite prof so far! I feel like she explained the content really well in lecture and I appreciated that they were recorded if you couldn't be there live. Doing the weekly readings could be a bit tedious, but other than that I have no complaints.

She was a good teacher and was generous with testing during this pandemic. Personally, I felt the tests were somewhat easy considering I did not really study for them. Overall she is great and the grade breakdown of her course is really helpful towards your grade.

Robin was a great prof. She explains things in great depth and includes examples and practice problems for us to work through in class. I learned so much in this class from simply attending her lectures (of course, you still have to study for the midterms). Highly recommended

Robin is a very good teacher, I found the class very easy and she spells out lot of things and the tests are exactly the same for most topics. She does a lot of practice questions, but had us do annotations on the textbook which was tedious and useless. the midterms were multiple choice.

The lectures are more than just a rehash of the textbook + slide information. She is passionate about what she's teaching and provides clear learning objectives.

She's an amazing and caring professor that's more than happy to entertain questions outside class time. Her tests are fairly easy as long as you study since there are no surprise questions. Only thing annoying was annotating the textbook, which wasn't helpful at all.

She is an amazing professor who is great at teaching. She is very accessible outside of the class, and cares that her students learn. The exams are challenging, but are marked accurately. The information delivered is clear and the Professor takes time to hold extra study sessions with herself, not the SL leader. There were a lot of SL sessions too.

Dr. Robin is an amazing professor. She tries to explain the topic as much as she can an relates it to real life as much as possible. She's very upbeat and real, and emphasizes understanding and applying content instead of memorizing and regurgitating it. Love this prof!

I liked her. Shes so funny, caring and sincere. She makes her expectations clear, her tests are fair (maybe on the more difficult side). Lots of area for easy marks like with quizzes and clicker questions. The perusall text is pointless and a waste of time but another easy grade. Shes SO engaging though and very passionate about biology. Shes great

I loved her. She's really funny and personable. I love how she relates her life experiences, plants and animals to the concepts. Tests were challenging but not hard. Make your study aids tailored to the "Learning Objectives". All test questions relate back to those. It was fun and I would love to take one of her classes again.

You'll definitely do well if you study. The questions on the midterm are all very similar to previous clickers and weekly quizzes. She also allows a cheat sheet. Only thing annoying was weekly readings on perusall which barely helped.

As long as you listen and study the lecture slides you will do well on the tests. Her lecture slides are very detailed and useful. You can tell she genuinely cares about teaching her students and she always has a postive attitude

Dr. Young is an amazing professor and I'd definitely recommend it for anyone in their first year. She's very considerate when teaching and often has cute little messages in her exams that never failed to put a smile on my face. Generally a very caring person and a bubbly personality. Very helpful outside of class too, lots of extra help sources.

Robin is a wonderful professor. You learn the bulk of the content alone, but class really helps you synthesize your understanding and get an idea of test questions. Lots of assignments take weight off the exams. She's very accesible outside of class as well, and gives helpful feedback. If you participate and put in the effort you'll do fine!

Heavy lectures, tough tests, good teacher.

Robin was a great prof and kept lectures engaging. She was super enthusiastic and accessible after class. It was a heavy course load, and tests were detailed, but she helped out where she could. Would def take her class again!

Dr. Robin is so awesome, she made this class so engaging! Textbooks were included in the course as part of our weekly readings

I loved Dr. Young!! She does assign lots of homework but everything she assigns you genuinely helps with your understanding of the course. If you do the homework you will do well. Class attendance is mandatory, but if you miss a class or two it is not a big deal. She's friendly, approachable, and funny but also very no nonsense.

I definitely liked cell biology more with Dr. Young than BIOL 116. Make sure to do the perusal worksheets because these are REALLY similar to the exam questions. Be sure to be able to do the worksheets as well and you'll do great. She does a good job of teaching the content, though the group assignment was kind of subjective/not fun.

Doing the pre-reading work is essential, for understanding terms (otherwise you'll be very lost). The wording of questions is often tricky, but she does provide lots of worksheets, which are worded similarly to questions one might find on midterms. iclicker was used each class.

I really liked her and honestly think she as a teacher should be rated higher, but the course was less accessible if you have any accommodations where you might miss lectures. I found I could catch up though. She doesn't post completed lecture slides after, so make a friend in the class. Midterms were definitely accurate to content covered.

Robins lectures are engaging and make you apply what you've just learned using iClicker. The midterms match up with the material learned, but you may need to readjust your expectations for grades. Along as you're average or above, you're doing well! There aren't any assignments for this course other than textbook readings, which are very helpful.

I love Dr. Young. She is smart and funny and seems to really love biology. Go to lectures and fill in the slides. That's the only way to actually get the notes and she doesn't post ways to get them otherwise. The readings are meh required but not THAT important (free text). She doesn't like interruptions. Tests are fair. SL worksheets help a lot.

She might seem a little intimidating but she's a great professor. Very good at explaining concepts and making you practice them with clickers, don't miss lectures tho because she will only post her blank slides and definitely do the worksheets!! The exams are pretty fair.

Dr. Young's lectures are engaging and if cell biology interests you they should be enjoyable. Tests feel more like reading comprehension and writing assessment than testing your knowledge of cell bio sometimes. It's tough/requires a lot of work but pay close attention to in class worksheets and practice questions on perusall and you'll do fine

Prof. Young excelled at explaining concepts in a very easy to understand fashion, and although she was a bit intimidating and at times, a bit hard to approach, it was clear that she wanted you to succeed. Beware: Midterms and final are only multiple choice, choose all that apply, so it's easy to lose points from dumb mistakes.

Brings a good energy into the lectures and we had weekly quizzes to review material, the online textbook was free with weekly pre lecture readings which do take a couple of hours. Posts all her notes and extra videos on topics, friendly and encouraging, enjoyed taking the class.

Dr. Young is a good professor. It takes a lot of effort to do well in her class, but you will learn a lot. This course sets you up to do well in third and fourth-year courses. You have to do the readings before if you want to take anything away from the lecture. The textbook is free and amazing.

I loved Dr. Robin! Very passionate about biology and honestly the class was quite easy! Tests are all multiple choice, which can be annoying but she does give at least 2 free marks per exam. She also is very adamant on participation during lectures and will wait until someone from further back in the room answers her questions.

Dr. Young in BIOL 430 was awesome! She is an awesome person and super approachable. BIOL430 is very group work based, so if that's not your style, RUN. This class wasn't lecture heavy so I can't speak to her lecture style. She is super straight forward and funny, lays expectations out on the table, and just wants you to give it your best effort.

Coming into this class from first year, I was so terrified, however, Dr. Young made this class so much more enjoyable. The content itself is interesting and her format of the lecture, clickers, and worksheet enhanced my learning experience. As all the reviews state, do the Perusall questions as they really help with preparing for the exams.

Dr. Robin really grew on me this year. She's passionate about cell bio, her teaching style is clear, and she gives out a bunch of exam-type questions as homework. There is a large group project component so CHOOSE YOUR GROUP CAREFULLY. She also wrote the textbook, so it's super useful for the class.

I love Dr. Young. She is more than willing to be challenged on her thinking and is open to being asked any kind of question so long as it relates to biology. I recommend listening to what she says instead of writing everything straight off the slides and doing the Perusall readings. Would definitely take a course with Dr. Young again

She is very nice and supeer passionate which made her lectures very engaging. lots of reading but it is worth it!

I ABSOLUTELY ADORE DR. YOUNG. She is so funny and so easy to get into contact with. I thought her lectures were great. the midterms and final are kind of difficult but I thought fair. the one thing that kind of annoyed me was that she wouldn't post completed slides for lectures, so if you miss one you're kinda outta luck. also sooo many iclickers

This class is very difficult. The tests are based on your understanding of the material. While the lectures are only there to explain the basics. You'll need to spend time using the other material she provides. If you do that, you'll succeed. Focus on understanding the material and applying it to the concepts; don't just memorize the information.