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I took Walcott for micro 230 this semester and it was the worst decision i have ever made. She isn't fair to her students. You have to do a 5 page essay at the end of every week and her exams are VERY hard.

I studied every single day for her exam and got a D. She doesnt prepare you for the exam and her tests are impossible to score well on. Her slides help a little but overrall she is awful.

This is a professor that really doesn't care if her students understand the material. She doesn't respond to emails often and almost half of the semester she didn't have office hours. Her lecture slides are often unclear and you have to read the textbook to understand the material presented in her slides. She takes forever to post grades.

her exams are hard and her slides are totally unclear! The worst part is that she only teaches lecture and no one else teaches lecture! she's disorganized too!

i took her last year and honestly i will never take an unorganized professor again! all of her homework, slides, and study guides are useless and misguided!

she is the worst professor on campus! she doesn't teach well and she's disorganized! I didn't learn a thing last semester!

She doesn't know how to teach! so disorganized!

very disorganized! all of her slides, homework, and the book are not helpful at all...

she doesn't know how to be organized, her lectures are hard to understand, and her exams are hard!

very disorganized about her work! I lose focus and don't know what to study for because she misguides me every time!

very disorganized in everything! i will never take her again!

her teaching skills are disorganized! every time she makes a study guide for upcoming exams, she changes everything! I WILL NEVER TAKE HER AGAIN!

she needs to learn how to organize her teachings! so lost here!

This professor is by far the worst, heartless and disorganized. Her exams are beyond difficult. would never recommend her even to my worst enemy, thats how bad she is. Tried talking to her to see if she can have some heart about the bad grades but there is no way of getting to her at all. Yeah she gives extra credit but it BARELY helps .

She is so unorganized. She uploads power points to study for exams. The PP have blanks and you must go to class to fill them. Needless to say, she flies through slides in class and I can barely fill things in. She's unorganized and does everything last minute. Uploads extra credit assignments 2 hours before they are due.. wouldn't recommend.

She is the worst 85 questions on an exam and the material is the heaviest i ever seen for an intro level class and the slides are not informative at all. just a couple of pictures and 1 or 2 sentences and filling out blanks is the worst

If you want to get your bachelors in nursing please dont. this class will hinder your grade because this class set up is horrible and so is the professor. I never write a review. Dont take her

Terrible class. Professor SPEEDS through the lectures, exams are overwhelming as they're 90 questions, & her study guides aren't even very helpful. Extra credit barely helps your grade & she didn't curve the final which was based on NINE ch's. Don't get me wrong, yes it's a hard course so you obv. have to study A LOT but this class is excessive!

she was all over the place with lectures I wouldn't recommend her take micro outside of lehman.

The subj is not too hard but she makes it very difficult to achieve a good grade. She rushes though chaps & exams are 90 questions covering 6-8 chapters. She drops your final grade by 1 letter grade if you have more than 2 absences (1 excused/1 unexcused) and she has the worst attendance method- most students are marked absent when they are present

Shari Walcott is extremely intelligent, she knows what she is talking about but is terrible at breaking it down for you so you can understand. She DOES NOT know how to teach. You have to spend hours reviewing and studying. You must go to class because she leaves blank spaces on the slides which you must fill in when your in class.

Whenever you have 1 professor teaching a subject don't even think twice about running in the opposite direction. PLEASE take Micro in another school. This professor is disorganized, changes questions in the middle of your exam, very inaccessible. There are students who have passed this class but not with her help. Worst ever does not care about you

Stay away from her. very disorganized, always late plus you can only see your grade by appointment after more than a month that you took it.

Honestly I think she's the dumbest professor I've ever had. Didn't know how to perform basic lab techniques and treated students as if we were in grade school. She is super disorganized.. didn't receive grades till the end of the semester where it was too late to improve or ask questions. Not really sure how she was hired.

The 350 characters limit here won't do it justice to explain just how bad this prof is so I'll give you bullet points 1. Errors on exam questions(TWO TIMES) 2. 2nd exam delayed because she printed out the wrong thing(no extra time) 3. ERRORS ON HER OWN STUDY GUIDES LOL(both on the final and 2nd one) 4. You'll prob study for the wrong thing AVOID

WORST PROFESSOR IN LEHMAN COLLEGE! NEVER MET ANYONE SO DISORGANIZED IN MY LIFE. TEST ARE CRAZY. SHES NEVER CLEAR ABOUT WHATS GOING TO BE ON THE TESTS. SHOWS UP LATE TO EXAMS. NEVER REPLIES TO EMAILS. HONESTLY TERRIBLE. NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU STUDY IT NEVER SEEMS TO BE ENOUGH. AVOID THIS TEACHER AT ALL COSTS IF POSSIBLE!!!!!!!

Get ready to WORK hard for a B, if you want an A you basically have to dedicate your whole semester to just passing this class.

This professor needs to be fired. She is the only one at Lehman that teaches Microbiology, and it is honestly the most painful class ever. I love biology and I am a good student, but she does not provide the tools you need to do well. Mono-tone, and doesn't explain things. DO NOT TAKE.

This professor, is one of the worst professor at Lehman College. I dont usually do rating, but honestly avoid her if you can take this class from another school is better. She make this class so hard, her exam is brutal 90 questions completely different with the lecture slides. You need to dedicate full time studying to pass this class with an A.

I have to retake this class and I am definitely choosing another professor. My GPA dropped and I did excellent in the lab class, but her lectures are not helpful. Her lectures do not cover the exams. If you are taking this course. GOODLUCK!

Worst professor at Lehman. Lady is so sarcastic it's like you can't even ask her a question as she'll give you a sarcastic answer as if you are in her head and know what she's thinking. Very selfish, could careless about her students doing well. If you open the dictionary and look up the word "Disorganized" you'll see her photo. It's that bad!!!!!!

Worst professor in the entire Biology department. Shari 1000% makes this class more difficult than is it. Made no effort to accommodate students during a pandemic. 1 hour on a test with 85 QUESTIONS, which take forever to read. Pulls question out of the sky. She does not care and her teaching skills are poor. PLEASE take Micro at another school.

If you want headaches and the desire to rip your hair out, take Prof. Walcott. Micro is a bit harder than A&P but she without a doubt makes this class insanely harder than it needs to be. There is so much information she expects you to know there is no way you can actual learn and retain any information. 60% is the exam average. UNHELPFUL AVOID

Do yourself a favor and take Micro outside of Lehman. I promise you wont regret it. She is the only one who teaches it and is by far the hardest professor/class I've ever taken. She must think we're PHD students. She goes on and on about how this is a 200 level course but at the end of the day it's still INTRO to Microbiology.

Worst professor I've had at Lehman. She expects soooo much out of you like memorizing 50+ diseases and 30+ microbes. She'll pull random stunts on you like making a test 90 questions instead of the promised 80! This class didn't need to be this hard. I wish I would've done an e permit. Pre-nursing students, you've been warned.

If you are pursuing a nursing degree, stay far away from Shari. Please do yourself the favor and e-permit this class at another CUNY or a private school. There is no reason for the class to be so hard. Nothing like the A&P professors who actually care and want you to pass.

Let me stop you from scrolling down any further! DO NOT take this class. Do not think of challenging yourself by taking this class. Disorganized, Extremely hard tests. Unless this is the only class you have, and no work/life ... Even then, do not take this class. Warning you now lol. But if you don't care about your Gpa, disregard this.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. SHE IS THE WORST HUMAN BEING CREATED (A COMPLETE DOO DOO) She is so rude and disrespectful to students asking simple questions. She never responds to emails (I emailed 5 times).

Extremely unreasonable, unorganized, unhelpful, and lazy. Expect to go over lectures yourself as she only does iclicker in class. Many errors on her quizzes so go over them. Only good thing is she offers extra credit. Not enough time for exams. 3 exams, pearson HW, quizzes and 2 practicals for lab portion. Be ready to study hard!

The worst professor that I have ever had , so inconsiderate and truly does not care about her students , I genuinely do not know how this person still has a job, she does not teach yet expects us to know everything , her exams are extremely difficult and when voicing your opinion she cuts you off , no sympathy what so ever

The worst class I've ever taken. I should have listened to the reviews & taken micro somewhere else. Trust me the reviews are 100% accurate. She is unsympathetic, disrespectful, unorganized, inconsiderate. She curved the test ALOT so she won't look bad. I know you need to take this if your majoring in nursing but trust me this class is horrifying.

She is one of the worst professors I have ever taken in my life. I took this class a few semesters ago and still remember how painful it was to have her as a professor. She would put 100 questions on each exam and we only had an hour and 45minutes to complete it which to me was extremely unreasonable. My advice is to avoid taking her at all cost.

i took her online not long ago i had to drop and get an E permit to take this class in another school. she just put everything on blackboard and as you to do the learning yourself, when we go to class, she just asks or put questions up we answer and if we do not get it right she will explain and that is it for the whole class she just do not teach

where to start? lack of ethics and integrity as a professor goes beyond imagination. she will not let you see your exams after you complete them, you won't be able to know where you made a mistake? if you choose this professor she will schedule homework for days.

the worst professor ever. spends all of class doing iclicker questions, takes 30-45 minutes to even get class started due to "connection issues" every week, gives 5 minute extra credit assignments that take more than 5 minutes to do, adds the extra credit points to the total score of the exam making them useless and even lowering your grade, BEWARE

this is the worst professor ever. I don't know how she's allow to teach honestly. she is disorganized, rude and unprofessional. if you want any chance at a career in nursing don't take this professor. she just wants to ruin careers doesn't teach at all. she so lazy she decided to say a group chat is cheating so she doesn't gave to grade the class.

Plain awful! The fact that she is a microbiology professor and only professor at Lehman blows my mind. How people like her actually get to that level??? Do yourself a favor and take this class somewhere else. You won't learn a single thing! It will be a waste of money and time and mental health.

Say a long prayer before you take this prof! I wish i had alot of space to say much, but she lacks communication, doesn't lecture the course she spends the whole 2-3 hrs of class doing stupid iclicker questions. Her exams is timed and has long case studies. She failed alot of students without any warning in advance. She is very disorganized too

Poor, unprofessional communication with students isn't harsh enough to describe the extent to which she was difficult to deal with. Her lectures were threadbare and barely covered any of the necessary information for exams; much of my time studying was independent. The material is fine, but the teacher? Not worth anyone's time.

Unfortunately a very disorganized professor. This course has a tough reputation and I would not recommend this professor. The lectures are barely a lecture because it is mainly iClicker questions that are nowhere near as difficult as the HW/exam questions. I had to teach myself basically this entire course and it did not go well.

First of all, she Doesn't teach, you teach yourself She quizzes students on Iclicker REF during class Her volume of homework is high and difficult with a lot of case studies Her exams are super long and case studies as well she has connectivity issues every class and doesn't upload material properly to BB SLOPPY AND CARELESS NOT RECOMMEND HER

My experience was very bad with this professor. She always ask questions in iclicker which I found irrelevant. Most of the time she doesn't reply to student's emails. I found the exact question she gave during the test on different mock test websites.

she was okay with everyone failing her class and even said it was expected. talk about low standards

She is VERY unorganized. Her exams are very hard, with not enough time. You won't find anything online to help nor will her recorded lectures help and this is coming from someone who studies and works hard. She uses the class as a therapy session. She talks A LOT. Her iclicker questions are hard and she gives you 10 seconds at most to answer them.

Don't do it to yourself or your mental health. Doesn't grade anything and no help either

Like another student said she uses lecture time as a therapy session, she preached about time management for 20 mins before starting the actual lecture, which is disorganized. You're given less than 30 sec to read and answer iClicker questions. Tests: 100 questions, 110 min. Students should not have to rely on extra credit to pass exams.

Worst Professor! She doesn't teach you teach yourself and she reviews! Exams are 100 questions with a hour to do!!!!! Brace yourself

Worst professor! Dont do this to yourself! Run away, seriously! Shes the absolute worst. Doesnt teach. She makes up iclicker questions in the beginning of class. She adds additional subscriptions that you will need to buy. Worst professor I ever had!!! Believe me and dont take her!

The worst!

Terrible professor Does not teach; she only does iClicker questions. Rude and never replies to her emails. Terrible, stay far away!!!

Seriously, Shari Walcott should not be teaching AT ALL. First, she does not teach but waste time doing iClicker. If you care about your mental insanity, run away. She expects you to learn a lot of bacteria in so little time. THE WORST PROFESSOR THAT I'VE EVER ENCOUNTERED. LAZY!

all i got to say is: 10 chapters for the final...... a month away.

She was the last professor available to take this course. So I asked myself how bad can she be! unfortunately i didn't listen to other reviews. Honestly horrible. Shes all over the place, her lectures aren't even lectures their just a bunch of iclicker questions which aren't helpful for exam. Gives exams with so many questions and little time.

Tests given are not enough time, no lecture just iclicker questions, does not answer emails, does not care about students, assigns multiple chapters per week, 80+ homework questions due twice a week, extremely unorganized in class, does not let the students speak their concerns. Do not take this class, epermit somewhere else, DONT DO IT!!!!!!!!!

its practically asynchronous. you teach yourself then during class time she does iclickers to review what youve taught yourself

YEA DON'T TAKE HER EVER AGAIN . SHE SHOULD BE FIRED HELL OUT OF LEHMAN

If you are in the nursing path, please bear in mind that this may be the hardest prerequisite you might take. It requires learning bacterias, antibiotics, and it is just rote memorization. Dedicate a lot of time. If an exam doesn't go well do not feel bad-the professor provides extra credit. Just try your best!

she's all over the place and doesn't lecture well. worst micro professor ever.