Difficult to understand this professor. Her lectures jump all over the place. She goes too fast and does not explain the concepts clearly enough. Sorry.

The worst prof at Queen's. She is a huge **** and if she is teaching the course next year - don't take it. She will ruin any interest you ever had in Cell biology. Marking scheme is very poor; very subjective and has no real basis. She should be removed from teaching immediately. I hate her.

Where to begin... Possibly the most disappointing class I've taken - before she taught it, the class was very popular; she ruined it. It was a butchering of a course. In all honesty, she appeared to be poorly prepared, scattered and was generally a poor lecturer. Also, she was actively sarcastic in response to student questions. A terrible person.

Some of these reviewers must have been high when in her class...how can you possibly think she is a quality prof?? My only conclusion is that you are as deluded as she is when it comes to rating her performance. She can't teach. Period. She is a poor prof and should not be at Queen's. Go back to Carelton Reganator!

I used to love cell biology....but not anymore!! She ruined everything. What a awful prof. So unprofessional and unprepared. The lectures sucked, and the exams were even worse! Dont expect to get a good grade unless you kiss up to her. You wont learn anything unless you learn it by yourself outside of this course.

This woman has no clue and doesn't give a crap about 99% of student's concerns. The worst professor at Queen's. Why is she even teaching? She's ignorantly jeopardizing our pursuit to learn.

I did not like her and it was clear that she did not like us either. She put on a phony smile all the time and it was clear that her attempt at pretending to care was just that - pretending. She should not be teaching, end of story.

The worst teacher I have ever had. Get ready for a 5 hour midterm and an 8 hour exam. Might as well bend over and prepare to get taken up the %&$ if you don't visit her office hours. Honestly the worst grader. Everything is application based, but the prof provided zero feedback as to what she is looking for. STAY AWAY, TAKE BCHM218.

She seems at first like she really cares about you. But then BOOM!! She gives these quizzes that are basically designed for you to mess up, they arent about concepts learned in class, its just typing letters into your computer. Seriously, how did I go from getting a 97 in grade 12 bio to an 11% on my last quiz?

KEEP AWAY! you can work hard and still fail.

This class is insane!!!!!!!! She does not give the info you need to pass let alone do well. Avoid it, SERIOUSLY. She goes back and forth on what assessments are going to contain. She did not teach us about half of what we are supposed to know by the end of first semester. SHE WAS A 4TH YEAR PROF AND DOES NOT KNOW WHAT'S REALISTIC FOR 1ST YEARS.

Regan has no concern for whether the students understand the material she teaches. Her lectures are useless and all over the place, and never cover the content that it should be covering. She tests on subjets never taught and finds students suffering enjoyable.

oh yea Dr. Regan did not figure out how the Qclicker work, and she got some nerves to decide to skip gradeing the clicker's marks, rather than taking her time to learn. I mean i did not expect putting my efforts in not skipping every clicker quiz and most importantly, my money on nothing. Not even mention the quiz she gave.

you have a better chance winning the lottery than actually doing well

Absolutely horrible. Worst instructor I have ever had. Did not teach us any relevant information in class, did not follow the curriculum, tested us on material that is completely useless and have never covered. Is generally a very rude and degrading person. Makes you feel stupid, when in reality it is her lack of teaching that causes you to fail!

Worst prof you will ever get at Queen's, even prof's who don't speak English are better. As Regan has said "if you find this course hard I didn't do anything it's all on you" - someone SAVE ME I want to pass and with her, I'm failing. "make sure you watch the supporting lecture" - her excuse on why she doesn't teach us anything

Hates her students, wants them to fail. Blames YOU for not understanding something. If you ask a question, she'll take it as a personal insult. If tenure wasn't a thing, she'd be at McDonald's.

Avoid her class!!

You might as well not even bother approaching her unless youre a walking billboard for NCBI

Blames YOU for not understanding something. STAY AWAY FROM HER CLASS.

She is horrible. I was very interested in majoring in biology until I went to her class. She doesnt follow the curriculum whatsoever because she probably thinks she is too good for it. Worst mark Ive ever had in biology because this course isnt fair for a first year course!! She should go back to forth year.

She makes so many mistakes in her questions and quizzes, it is brutal. A quiz that was worth 5% of my grade which contained 3 multiple choice questions has a typo and for that reason I got a whole question wrong worth almost 2% of my grade. She does not teach the stuff required to succeed in her course, let alone bio103 and any other bio course.

She taught our first year biology class NCBI, which is not that big of a part of the curriculum. She failed to teach us the entire unit of mitosis and meiosis and cut out 5 of the chapters we were supposed to learn which will put us back in our learning for future classes. She made the quizzes nearly impossible even if you knew what you were doing.

She literally prides herself on letting her students fail. avoid it her class.

was walking into the building to lecture at she was right in front of me, so i caught up and ask about office hours snapped at me to just look on her website. it wasn't there. then in lecture a girl asked my same question i was gonna go in for and regan rolled her eyes and scoffed saying if she doesn't know that by now shes going to fail the exam

Yeah, no

Don't bother with Regan's lectures, she doesn't teach anything worth while, and her lectures contradict the answers on her tests and quizzes. If you want to do well, stick with third party sources and the textbook.

Dr. Regan has made taking BIOL 102 especially hard and stressful for me. She does not care about your perspective as a student. Expect to be quizzed on nothing you learn in her lectures or anything she teaches. Don't email with any questions, she won't listen to your side and will just try to make you feel stupid. This course overall is a joke.

She's making bio exclusively about NCBI. She laughed at me during her office hours for asking her a question about something I didn't understand.

Very difficult to pass her class. Her lectures are nothing like the quizzes she gives us. It took everyone to fail her first NCBI quiz for her to teach us what was actually going to be tested. She is not very understanding of students' personal circumstances or helpful if you have any questions in the course. Her lectures are very lengthy as well.

If adjusting to first year online wasn't hard enough then Regan's half of the course was a rude awakening for sure. I don't know why I'm compelled to learn all of the material when all of Regan's quizzes are all based upon a 10-minute supporting lecture that may or may not make sense. Avoid this professor if you can.

Her entire section seemed to be focused on NCBI. She was all over the place and did not seem to care how the students did in the course.

Dr Regan is by far the worst professor i'ave had to deal with. Her teaching is mainly based off of NCBI, which she did not teach us how to use. Her quizzes are very difficult, to the point where she herself, had to take 2 questions out of the quiz because they were too hard for our level. I would not recommend her.

i have no words.

brutal

She made this class very difficult and the quizzes were extremely hard. She based everything off NCBI which made the class overall less appealing. Would not recommend!

just.... no She doesn't care about her students and bases all of her quizzes off of NCBI which she doesn't teach us how to use. The quizzes are pretty much based on nothing you learned but a pure test of how naturally smart you are at figuring out what the hell the question is asking and how to find the answer on NCBI. AVOID IF POSSIBLE

She can't teach and is constantly making mistakes. The amount of focus on NCBI is beyond frustrating. At this point, you're not learning biology, you're learning how to read numbers and graphs from a website. If on a weekly basis the whole class is failing quizzes, its probably not the student's fault, but rather the incompetence of the prof.

Regan is the absolute worst professor to ever walk this earth. I have never had such a passive and rude teacher in my whole life. Adjusting to online classes was hard enough, Regan took it upon herself to make it 100x worse. She gave no direction on any course material and didn't care about her students whatsoever. I hope I never see her ever again

Avoid this prof.

I do not like this professor like most students who take her courses

I keep seeing Reddit posts & made an account on this site specifically to say SHE IS NOT AN INDICATION OF HOW YOUR TIME AT QUEEN'S WILL BE! I graduated years ago. She is hands down the worst prof I had due to her attitude. Even back then she pointed at students in lecture screaming "youre going to fail!" It makes me sick to see that shes still here

Uncaring prof. Will literally laugh in your face as you ask for help. The worst prof I've ever seen at Queen's.

She is the worst prof I've experiences thus far at Queens. I used to love biology but she ruined it for me. She is extremely rude and passive aggressive. Her lectures are long and often have little to do with the tests.

She is so disorganized and constantly making mistakes in her lecture slides. She pushes back office hours and lecture quizzes the day before or day of, and clearly does not value her student's time. She is constantly talking about NCBI, even when it is irrelevant to class content. I was enjoying this class until she took over and became the prof.

Unacceptable. There are countless experiences I could go into detailing the many gripes I have with this prof. She has no respect for students, willingly and gleefully telling us that if we are struggling, we should drop the course. She makes many errors in her quizzes, lectures, and assessments. There is no excuse for this lack of professionalism.

She needs a proofreader since the majority of the time spent test-taking is just trying to figure out what the typos are supposed to say. Tests are always late being released either last minute (the day before) or are removed and reposted. No respect for students' time. All lectures are the ones from 2020, the titles weren't even changed

Unprofessional to the point of being an embarrassment when you compare her to her colleagues. There are outstanding professors at Queen's and Regan is a strike on the bio dept's reputation. We were in very capable hands with diCenzo until Regan stepped in. Avoid if you can, although I don't know if that's possible with first year.

Astronomically unprofessional. Very disrespectful to students who dont understand the material right away. Her lectures make absolutely no sense and if you try to read the transcripts good luck they look like a toddler wrote them. She babbles on in lectures and there is absolutely no structure so they are incredibly hard to follow worst prof ever

Drop the course while you can.

Worst class ive ever take. If you have any will left to live do not take this class. You wont do well, so dont try.

The quizzes are full of mistakes and the questions are often extremely confusing. Good luck to anyone who decides to take this class.

So unorganized. Avoid this class at all costs

Everything goes downhill once she introduces you to NCBI. Quizzes are disorganized: they were usually released 1-2 days after when they were supposed to be, there were tons of typos on one, and more than half of the questions tend to be related to NCBI rather than the material covered in the lectures. It feels impossible to do well in this course.

Probably the worst professor I have ever had. She was constantly disorganized and made continuous mistakes in our tests/quizzes, then proceeded to blame us for doing bad. Our final lecture quiz was so awful that the class average was a 37%.

Dr. Regan is a tough prof. I think that students are fed up with the disorganization that has been presented in BIOL 102. NCBI is relied on heavily and is a struggle to learn. She does not try to help students understand it as well. It is impossible to avoid this class if you are going into a science-based degree but if you can AVOID IT.

Unprofessional and unorganized. Would not recommend.

Lmao Regan is not good at her job. I love biology but I genuinely would rather swallow a fork than take this class again.

She should've stuck with the plants cuz she's a terrible teacher.

Cant spell, typos on every quiz and final exam, has a box at the end of her exam for any mistakes you found, disorganized online, talks too much in videos that could be 10 minutes, coughs into mic

The course went downhill as soon as Prof Regan took over. She focuses a lot on NCBI but then only had about 5 questions on the exam about it. Constantly has errors in her quizzes and lectures. Expect your grade to drop when she takes over.

I took this class last year and gave Regan the benefit of the doubt since everything was switched to online. However, after having classes switched online in second year, I realized how horrid she really was. Disorganized lectures, rude responses, and quizzes in which she NEVER explained. Terrible prof, do not recommend in the slightest.

The worst structured class I've ever taken. There was an EXCESSIVE amount of unorganized lecure videos on top of the in person lectures. I found myself looking for other resources beyond what the prof provided in order to have an understanding of the concepts. Prof was extremely unporfessional as many mistakes were made througout the class and EXAM

I cannot stress this enough. Do not take this course if she happens to be your professor. She is so unorganized with her lectures and takes so long explaining a concept, overcomplicating it, when it should only take ten minutes. She is demeaning and tells us that "it's not too late to drop the class". This isn't tough love. It's just disrespect.

expects you to know everything and doesn't explain in depth at all, her lecture quizzes were the worst.

Dr Regan does not explain things clearly and makes many mistakes on the lecture quizzes. She came to an exam review session without a plan and re read the lecture slides from previous weeks. During lectures she was reading the transcript from recorded videos. Is not made available to students all the time and does not explain concepts clearly.

worse than people say she is. completely unorganized and gives you like 6-7 videos to watch a week, spends too much time rambling, Lecture quizzes are not like the content she teaches, and the number of mistakes in them is unbelievable. be prepared to teach this half of the course to yourself because she is no help.

Sharon Regan is very disorganized and stressed me out the entire semester. She constantly made mistakes on quizzes, lessons, videos, and even the final exam. I took this class because I like bio, but I don't anymore. I was always confused about what lectures I needed to complete, because she would would post so many,

To be honest, the actual content that she taught wasn't too hard. That being said, the pure amount of mistakes made was beyond stupid (she gave wrong answers in the homework, didn't provide the right answer's for quizzes, etc). I genuinely don't know how she is still teaching and honestly believe she should be looked into by the school. STAY AWAY!

As soon as BIOL 102 switched from Di Cenzo to Regan everything went downhill..... Prepare to want to cry every time you open NCBI.

DROP THIS CLASS WHILE YOU CAN!!! constantly makes errors, to the point she made errors on the final exam, she wastes student's time by making them look for an answer that doesn't even exist, she always encourages students to come to her office during hours and then proceeds to call students incompetent.

Wouldn't be surprised to find her in a Walmart uniform in a month

Dr. Regan is highly disorganized and her online lectures are not helpful at all. The only possible way of learning anything from her is to go to her office hours. One other thing, all the lecture quizzes and even the final exam had mistakes which made me question my whole approach, raising my anxiety level to taq polymerase levels.

You will lose all of your passion for biology after having Sharon Regan. Every video and explanation is unclear, you will be stressed, it will be bad, beware.

The content isn't even difficult the problem is her inconsistency with the way she writes her tests. She uses vague terms which can be interpreted differently and has a bunch of mistakes in the quizzes as well. Look over your quizzes VERY CAREFULLY right after its graded to check for mistakes. Made the mistake of not doing this, couldn't getregrade

The second half of biol102 is unnecessarily confusing and complicated because of Dr. Regan's hectic and inconsistent teaching. Her video lectures are non-informative, to say the least, and are a waste of your time. Her quizzes are ambiguous and complex and are plagued by typos and mistakes which make you regret taking biol102. Avoid at all costs.

her lecture quizzes make no sense. ho doesn't know how to word the questions properly. be ready to go from a 100 on every quiz to a 70.

she would forget to post lecture slides and pre-lecture videos until the last minute and then when students asked her to post them she would complain and blame/demean the students.

She blabs and doodles all class. Makes no sense.

No one likes her. So confusing and she seems like she's learning with us. Like she almost doesn't know what she's talking about.

This was the most frustrating professor I have ever met in my academic life. She teaches one of the most difficult sections in BIOL102, while simultaneously being unable to form a clear and coherent sentence half the time. Test questions are vague and filled with errors, and she neglects to post lectures&transcripts unless she is pestered about it.

She's confusing, she sounds confused in her own videos. Her slides have no information on them, like if you look at them alone you won't understand. It's set up like you need to watch the video with the slides but her videos make no sense. She's talking about everything and nothing at the same time. Might be the worst teacher at Queen's.

She is the most disorganized prof I've had, be prepared to teach yourself her half of BIOL 102. Her lectures and lecture videos are all over the place and there is often mistakes on tests/quizzes.

Not a great prof

She cancelled the drop chance of BIOL 102 quiz. That's quite terrible.

Genuinely don't understand how she still works here. Her lectures were boring and didn't help my learning AT ALL. She sneezed in the middle of a recorded lecture and it sounded like her computer exploded. Every week was like 1.5 hours worth of content outside of class + DSMs + quizzes. #boycottregan2k23.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH REGAN! I took biol102 as an elective and unless you fully understand bio at an advanced level, Regan does not adequately teach the material. If you want to ask her a question...prepare to be embarrassed and feel horrible about yourself. especially if you try to correct something on her slides.

She was consistently disorganized, making it difficult to follow her teaching. Her explanations were confusing and she struggled to simplify basic concepts. Additionally, her quizzes were filled with mistakes, undermining their accuracy. I strongly advise against taking her courses unless you're prepared for a frustrating learning experience.

Worst prof at Queen's

Terrible, only one way to describe her teaching. Countless mistakes in lectures, quizzes, and online videos while still managing to make the most simple concepts confusing, didn't even know that was possible... Very disorganized with content provided on Onq with multiple useless resources and scattered information. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS.

All around terrible. Completely disorganized, you will have to siphon through a bunch of useless material to get to what actually matters. Has consistently made errors and typos on final exams for YEARS. not to mention condescending. 0/10. Never want her again. This course was mandatory so get ready if you must take it.

Going to lectures was useless, many typos on lecture quizzes and even on the final exam. It sounded like she never knew what she was talking about and did not fit any student's learning style.

Every negative review of Dr Regan on this website is true. Her inconsistent lecturing combined with her lack of organizational skills makes for a non enjoyable experience. Her lecture quizzes are riddled with errors and if you thought that wasn't bad enough the final exam itself is filled with typos and spelling mistakes. Avoid at all costs

She makes mistakes on the quizzes and final exams which costs you marks. She removes those questions and the exam questions are then worth more.

Errors on every quiz and the final exam. You'd think that after teaching the class for 20 years she'd know how to proofread but apparently not.

Absolutely upsetting how the course was araanged

She severely lacks organisation and proofreading skills her portion of BIOL 102 was a mess. Her lectures were also pretty bad... she would introduce a concept, explain one third of it, introduce another, re-explain the one-third, introduce another, explain the second third, and then we had to read about the last third. Below average overall.

Took bio for fun first year, BIG MISTAKE. I realized very quickly that going to her lectures were useless as her online lectures was where most of the content was taught. Her lectures consisted of mostly high school level biology content. She was also very unhelpful in reviewing for the exam. Overall bad experience having her as my prof.

I'd rather be at a Diddy Party than in class

every single bad thing you hear about Regan is unfortunately true. I truly didn't think that such awful profs existed, but boy was I wrong. Please avoid at all costs, although it's likely required to have her to take this course.

Horrible testing

Bring back George

I DO NOT recommend taking her classes, if you have the option to take a Biology course with another professor, I highly recommend doing so. She should not be a professor, she hates her job and, therefore takes it out on her students, creating a negative aura and an unhealthy classroom environment.

Echoing most other reviews but she is awful. Her tests are riddled with mistakes, her lectures are messy and ridiculously difficult to follow, and her OnQ is a mess with unnecessary resources and pre-recorded videos that are long and unclear. I haven't learned anything from her and have had to teach myself all the material. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS.

You were so bad I wanna give you a zero, but thats not possible so I give u..... a one

I may as well give my tuition money to the youtube channels who explain the concepts 100000 times better than her.

literally the same as so many other reviews. overcomplicates everything to where not only her students are confused, but she is as well. she tries quite hard for her students (cute lego diagrams!) but constantly makes mistakes on quizzes and doesn't stop yapping in her online lectures (what could be a 20 minute video is drawn out to 40-70 minutes)

If you enter this class without a religion, pick one and start praying. I also hope you like using plastic bricks to learn the central dogma. The only reason I did any good was thanks to my high school teachers.

The most aggressive professor i met

Really difficult to follow and understand lectures. There is little to no writing on lecture slides, and pre recorded lectures amounted to more than 2 hours per week on top of in person lectures

She starts off strong but quickly becomes the most disorganized professor I have ever had, her lecture slides are usually posted late online if they're posted at all and are labelled in such a disorganized manner you can't find anything on onQ. Pray you have the will to get through her hour-long prerecorded lectures; in-person lectures are trash.

She is completely disorganized in every aspect. Her materials are impossible to find on OnQ, and even when you do find them, they make no sense. Her prerecorded lectures are difficult to sit through, and her in-person lectures are somehow even worse. Additionally, her quizzes are unorganized and challenging to learn from if you make a mistake.

very unorganized, and doesn't know what's happening when. lectures are all over place and pre-recorded don't match the in person lectures.

no words I just wanna curse about this bad prof but I dont wanna get removed so you get it just such a horrible prof

She is confusing, quizzes make no sense, talks too much and walks around a lot but she seems nice

One of the worst professors I've ever had. The lectures make the content even more confusing and she's awful at explaining the diagrams on the slides. Impossible to take notes from.

She has no idea what is going on. The course delivery is split between prerecorded lectures and in-person lectures. Her organization within the prerecorded lectures is inexistent, OnQ is a mess, she talks incredibly slow, meaning her prerecorded lectures take hours to watch. Often makes mistakes in the in-person lectures and graded quizzes as well.

So horrible, material is not related to the course, can't explain anything i wish i could drop asap.

slides are so disorganized and the lectures and prelectures are a mess. she genuinely sucks at explaining but its clear shes trying to be helpful. her slides have little to no text on them so forget about taking any notes. she seems nice tho

Much preferred previous prof to her. Switched after first quarter and it was my downfall. She is disorganized and talks about things unrelated to tested materials. So unorganized I could barely understand what was going on and due to this issue was hard to take notes. 10/10 do not recommend. Yates was 1000x better. she is nice though...

Literally the most disorganized teacher ever. She scribbles on the board and calls it lecture slides. It's really hard to understand whats going on. I found Susan Yates 1000x better. She will update the slides after class because she made a mistake. Her quizzes are also super hard. I have nothing nice to say.

Her pre lectures are hours long I dont think she knows how to edit. They could be condensed to like 20 minutes and she just over explains so much to the point where things are more confusing. She put out this forum where students could ask clarifying questions, so someone did, and she just responded with "i already answered this in class". not good

confusing lectures that make no sense, says so much yet nothing at the same time. STILL hasn't figured out technology in the year 2025.

Night and day difference between her and Dr. Yates. Regan had messy lectures and the class average on quizzes may have gone down by 20% during her half of the course.

Very messy lectures and extremely hard quizzes compared to yates first half of the course.

DISGUTING LECTURE

She talks as if she is confused about her own material. Her pre-lectures are often very different than what she teaches in class, her lecture quizzes are hard to even pass, and she is very inefficient when teaching, and when she repeats difficult topics, it seems as though she's teaching something completely different. 0/10 r.i.p. my bio grade :(

terrible prof avoid at all costs

just wrote the exam. get me outttt god save meee

Don't go to the lectures just watch the pre recorded videos. Lectures are pointless.

very uncooperative and does not respond well during office hours or emails, making you feel unintelligent. her online slides were a mess and unorganized.