She is rude and moody sometimes and gets distracted from lecture easily which makes paying attention to what she is teaching kinda hard sometimes. She strays from what is being taught and has a rude and disrespectful demeanor towards students.

Don't take this class, this professor is very tough on exams.

Herrick is condescending, defensive, unfair and unapproachable. On multiple occasions she has been know to send rude emails. She is not the understanding type AT ALL. She is very disrespectful and her lectures barely help with her exams. She is also convinced that our generation is the worst so get ready to hear her rants about technology. Goodluck

She was so unfair, unapproachable, and very blunt. Since classes have moved online, many professors have been very considerate, but she has been very difficult. She assigned a web monitor during the exams and was strict, but didn't explain the rules. The extra credit assignments were weird and difficult to accomplish during this pandemic.

Many things on the test are not discussed in class, let alone touched upon. Has been very strict with exams during outbreak. Everything moved online, everything became tough. During in-person session, she always bad-talked technology, made it seem like she hated us. Very unapproachable. Grading was very strict.

Lots of extra credit. Besides that, Herrick was very condescending and hard to speak to as she came across rude and sassy. And trust me, its as bad in person as it is via email. I stopped going to lecture after the first 6 lectures because she wasted too much time on "How to study". Read the text book and do practice quizzes and you'll do great.

Susan Herrick has been the worst professor I have had since the pandemic began. She is so passive aggressive, rude to students, and not accommodating whatsoever. Questions on exams are unfair and not thought out (for example people have lab the day after exams are scheduled but the material in lab that week will still be on the exam. Worst profesor

Way too much work

Dr. Herrick is impossible to contact outside of class, gives excessive amounts of homework, condescending to people when they ask questions, and just rude. I feel like she doesn't care about her students at all. This class was horribly adapted for online. You can get a good grade, but beware as it has a very heavy workload.

I would not recommend this professor AT ALL. Her class isn't hard but she is one of the rudest, unsympathetic professors I've ever had. She answers every question with either a laugh, a sarcastic response, or an attitude. She makes you feel like you should ask no questions at all. The class is easy to get an A in. But the professor is horrible.

Herrick is one of worst I've had at UConn. NOT understanding whatsoever, especially in terms of pandemic. Impossible to contact. I sent so many emails and not one returned. And puts things on exams from past labs that don't line up what was covered in lecture videos ... unpredictable exams. If you put in the work, u can do fine but Susan is not it

she makes a whole email address dedicated for students, yet myself & every single student I've talked to has never heard back once from her on email. horrible during pandemic. doesn't round grade for 79.9 to 80. exams have material not even from lecture .

worst professor i ahve ever had at uconn . uconn DO BETTER

If I could give her a zero rating I would. The most inconsiderate person I've ever come across, and definitely doesn't have the students' best interest in mind. So passive aggressive, always has an attitude, and very immature. Doesn't care to help you and she's also a horrible teacher.

She is one of the worst professors I have had at Uconn. She gets defensive when you ask for clarification. Not considerate, prepare to teach yourself!

She is a horrible professor, don't take it with her unless you have to!

Prof. Herrick is very rude to students and often laughs when we ask a question. She talks to us like we should already know what she is teaching. Day 1 of class was yesterday and I am not impressed. I pay a lot of money to come to this school and I am disappointed in how rude and uncaring this professor is.

I'm not one to leave reviews unless I am extremely disappointed, so this says something. 3 weeks into class- makes rude and sassy comments during lectures, doesn't even lecture until she's 40 minutes into the class. Lockdown tests are strict and you get points taken off for things you can't control like losing your internet connection.

She made several mistakes regarding course content, does not clarify anything and is always passive aggressive when people ask her to clarify the things she messed up. She frequently taught us things wrong and had go to back and re-iterate the things she taught us improperly.

she's kind of super rude and doesn't care about her students, her work load isn't too bad tho. lectures are a waste of time, she does not teach during these times, you do all the learning on your own. good luck.

Dr. Herrick is extremely rude to students. Dont ask questions unless you want to be put down. I have never taken a class with a professor as rude and sarcastic as Dr. Herrick. Save yourself the time and dont take any classes with her.

Worst class I've taken, and I've taken OChem 1+2. Way too many assignments due weekly, lectures are pointless so get ready to teach yourself from the textbook. So many rules for the LockDown Browser webcam "quizzes" (they're just exams w/ a diff name). You end up focusing more on if you look like you're cheating to the camera than the actual exam!!

By far the worst prof Ive had at UCONN. very rude. barely teaches during class, and when she does she gets most of the content incorrect and has to start over because she messed up. hates answering questions and makes you feel like you shouldnt ask and that youre an inconvenience to her. Unreasonable about lockdown browser and downright nasty.

This woman... I dont understand why she is the only choice for over 400 students. Shes lecture is useless and the test is difficult even if you study hard enough. She is rude to students and has unreasonable rules of the lockdown browser. I highly recommend UConn to find someone else to teach this class.

Adding on to past entry. She claims that her dropping the lowest grade of each type of assignment helps. In fact it is a pitiful excuse for help. Even when I was at my worst, she just gave me the pre-typed answer that the lowest grades will be dropped. I barely got a B- by the skin of my teeth. Do not expect to get emails back that are helpful.

Dr. Herrick believes everything revolves around her class. You have bi-weekly "quizzes." The definition of a quiz is: "a test of knowledge, especially a brief, informal test given to students." Her "quizzes" are 50 question exams. Not the hardest class by a long shot, but way too much of a time commitment for an intro bio course. Get another prof.

This professor is terrible. Although she offers extra credits, she still made the class more difficult than it could be. But the most important thing is she was so strict about the lockdown browser. I feel like she treats lockdown browser like her best friend and the class wont be perfect without it. Not recommended AT ALL.

Worst professor. She was so upset about us not submitting her evaluations and accused the class of "only submitting the negative ones." Last semester the final exam was optional. This semester it's required and she has hardly given us any info and not even a study guide. Take this class if you want to teach yourself. Otherwise, run.

Dr. Herrick is easily one of the worse professors I've ever had. She was extremely condescending and rude to her students. Her exams aren't too hard, but she made the final mandatory which hurt so many student's grades. I had a really good grade before the final. I don't understand why she's the only option for 1108.

Never take this class. It sucks she is the only prof. for 1108. Not only did she make the final mandatory (when the other 1108 classes were optional), she also scheduled the exam on 2 different days, which is unfair because now the students that did not take the exam already know what they are going to expect and what to study for. RIP grades

If you have the chance to take a different bio class please do it. With COVID, her lockdown standards are too high and her tests are too hard. Also too much work and made long lecture videos without really teaching during allotted class time. She gives some extra credit that I did but the final was so bad it dropped my grade 5 percentage points.

Dr. Herrick was a terrible professor. She was hard to contact and very rude to her students. I had a really good grade before the final, but then she made it mandatory and it caused almost everyone's grade to plummet.

I was supposed to finish this class with a A but at the end she accused 4 students (that I know of) of cheating. We all did not cheat but she threw a bunch of accusations and did not budge. If you even look anywhere other than your screen or even if you look at your screen wrong Fail. Pretty sure she's racist as well all accused students were POC.

This is all I want to say: if you need/want to take Bio1108 and she will be the instructor, RUN! This teacher will destroy your college life and experience. Good luck.

Some comments are saying people only are negative when they do poorly in her class. That really isnt true. I received an A and did well in her class, but she is horrible. She is extremely condescending and never answers emails. Dont bother asking questions or you might be laughed at. Finished with a 95 and still would never recommend her.

Herrick has a very strict teaching style and will not change even if it doesn't work for her students. She doesn't let us use ANY tech in lecture and forces everyone to take notes on paper. She does not answer her emails. But, I can say she has a very structured class and clear deadlines, lots of extra credit. Make sure you study hard

I think she is a good person but as a teacher she is very condescending. She makes it so difficult for you to do better on future exams and quizzes by not allowing you to look back at the wrap up quizzes, unless you make an appointment or come to office hours. She also does unnecessary tactics to prevent cheating for the final.

lectures were useless, which is her whole job. she didn't teach anything that was actually on the exams or quizzes, and the only reason i did decent was my lovely TA. countless mistakes on exams and grades that had to be corrected and she just talks and talks about unimportant things. terrible. take another teacher.

To be honest, I really don't like this class. Lecture is legit pointless to go to because she just rambles on about random stuff. She claims she has taught this class for years so she "knows how to teach it" but she literally doesn't. The content is also so boring in my opinion. I think she is a nice person but I hate how this class is set up.

Her lectures are okay I guess, very boring and not very helpful on how to understand hard topics. The Tests are truly AWEFUL. the first 2 exams I failed, and I mean FAILED with a 49 and a 46. I studied hard but the questions are so precise. I won't ever take Herrick again, but she was a nice person I guess.

Herrick was just terrible. I got no resources for the class. The grades are soley based off exams, there is a ton of reading and she is not clear. I studied so much and she was super backhanded and made me feel terrible when I asked for help and was looking for help

Don't need to go to class, tests are HARD. Study a lot.

does not care about students, gives three big tests within 6 days of each other. No respect for student time

Do you believe there are THREE midterms and ONE final with TWO lab practicals which are also TESTS. midterm3 and final in 7 DAYS just like the speed of her class. I don't know why so fast. She is intentionally catching the schedule, though never feel sorry when she wasted the time on unorganized and somehow irrelevant stories!

Too many tests. Frankly speaking, you need to work a lot. She always want to tell new freshman that college is not easy. But college is easy when one loves to work on it and dive into it. She made the interest of freshman like me dull.

I took this in the Fall and she was a very hard professor, the exams were hard though some questions came from the lab quizzes. She wasn't very accessible outside of class, and was very bad at responding to emails. It's a no electronics class so you have to use a notebook to take notes, but the exams are on computers on lockdown browser.

I found lectures to be useless as it consists of the professor reading directly off the slides which are accessible outside of class. Test questions are incredibly specific making tests challenging for students as you can't just have a "general" understanding of topics. Students had to teach themselves rather than learn from the professor.

Susan Herrick has been by far the most toughest grade I've had. She has constantly side tracked throughout the course which had no relevance towards lecture. Herrick does not give any curves, she compares grades with what you've done to her videos, learning curves etc. Her exams are very specific and often do not make sense.

Her class is difficult and she is not compassionate toward her students at all. More than half the class failed an exam and she never curved it or gave those people extra credit. This is hard and very time-consuming. She talks more about her personal life than the lecture material.

she spoke about her personal life the entire time during lectures, her slides were useless, her lectures were impossible to follow There are 3 exams that weighed an insane amount Her scheduling is crammed there are little resources available to help and she could care less Don't email her she will just answer you with attitude. avoid her if you can

IF YOU ARE PRE-MED! Do not take this class you can skip it by taking an upper level Bio class. Please save your time and GPA by not taking this class. She does not stay on topic when it comes to lectures. Lab is a waste of time. This woman does not care about her students, but "flexes" how she failed undergrad 3 times...

She is not a good teacher. After attending all the lectures leading up to the first exam, I stopped going because they were pointless and was better off teaching it to myself. She is not helpful and will entirely blame the students for not doing as well as she wants. She expects too much of the students 9 chapters/exam is too much to memorize.

You are expected to memorize concepts from about 7-9 chapters per exam. Lectures are almost completely useless, and a waste of time. You are better off teaching yourself. You have a lot to read weekly. The last exam average was about a 67, and she refused to curve it. She talks down to the class, and comes off harsh and rude.

Tended to go on random tangents about her personal life/accomplishments/things unrelated to lecture. Assigned huge amounts of content to cover in exams, then shamed students for their grades. The one good thing I have to say is that the exams were not too difficult or in depth, but there was so much material to know that studying took forever.

Worst class I have taken at UConn. Her lectures are pointless and a waste of time, and she talks about herself half the time. You are better off using the class time on your own to teach yourself. So much content and memorization per exam. She is pretty rude and got angry when many people did poor on the exam, when in reality, she is the problem.

She rambles on about failing college, getting old, unnecessary topics in lecture. Exams (3) are HARD, online book is heavy. Exams not including finals. Lab is okay. She wants you to self teach; lecture is boring and pointless. Emails are judgemental!

Lectures are pointless, she will go on about her personal life or study tips and skip over material & says you should know it. Worst thing about her is she doesn't curve and her exams are on a ridiculous amount of information. About 8 chapters per exam and the chapters are very long and some of the questions are ridiculous to ask a student to know

I would give her a 0 if I had the option to. Avoid this class if you can. She does not understand that there are things out of your control that will cause you to miss labs or a major exam. Doesn't matter if you're in the hospital, she still expects you to show up or you get a zero. Study learning curves and practice quizzes they really help!

Susan Herrick is completely delusional about her life. She spends immense time telling the class about her time in the Peace Corps and as an EMT. Her blackboard is disorganized. She does not follow her rubric for grading assignments. She has multiple outdated assignments with incorrect information. Does not care about her students.

This professor is delusion and her syllabus is absurd. She runs this class like it's the military and expects you to figure every aspect of navigating her course out on your own. No laptops are allowed. If you miss two labs you receive an automatic F regardless of the reason. She does not give out her slideshows. Plus side there some extra credit

Professor Herrick is a terrible lecturer. Her policies are tough and unreasonable, not allowing for any type of emergency if you miss a lab or quiz. Extremely test heavy. She does not have any understanding of pedagogy, and she does not know how to effectively teach students, reading the textbook and reviewing the slides is the only way to pass.

DO NOT take this class. I would take this class in any community college. I wonder why UCONN(professor) makes this class so challenging to pass. Quizzes every week pre& post quizzes and exams are 6 or 8 chapters. You must memorize a lot of terms and formulas. I do not know why she is the only teacher for this class.

Lectures consist of her rambling on irrelevant topics. Her exams reflect her teaching style, as they are composed of questions that come primarily from the textbook and adaptive quizzes. She tells students to focus on core concepts provided in her lecture slides, but exam questions are almost always more specific than she claims we should know.

the worst, meanest, and worst professor I have ever encountered in my four years of college. Although she will give extra credit, her marking is very strict and hellish. The most annoying collection tour this semester she didn't write it on the syllabus at all, and this is worth 15 points so many people were unable to participate, not chance/Excuse

A tad bit condescending. I along with numerous other people feel as if she comes across as passive aggressive. Exams are heavily text based, not to mention they have very specific questions you would only be able to know if you looked extensively into each topic. Deadlines are set tight, so if you take other high maintenance classes be prepared.

bad.

Unrealistic expectations for students, assigns long & dense textbook readings and tests have overly specific questions despite her repeatedly saying they only require general knowledge. In lecture she rambles about random topics that aren't on the exams as well as her delusions about her personal life. Unreasonably strict policies w/ no exceptions.

Insists on making the course as hard as possible not for the sake of having everyone learn or be challenged, but to arbitrarily weed out as many people as possible who want to continue in the BIOL courses. Lots of mandatory homework, lab sessions can last the full 3 hours very often, and not a kind person.

As a bio major, this will probably be one of your hardest classes your first two years. Her lectures are so useless that nobody comes to them and the lecture hall is not even 1/4 full. Post-Labs are impossible and there is no real study guide for them. Lastly, The average in the class is less than a B- and many people drop. DO EXTRA CREDITS.

She babbles in all of her lectures they aren't even worth going to. The course load is a lot if you fall behind as there's 2 chapters a week. It's all memorization with the reading. She's rude and inconsiderate also. Only take if major req

Attendance for labs is necessary no matter what, even when you are sick. you will receive an F for a missed lab no matter what. She told TA's not to provide us with information. We had no access to any of our quizzes and in the first half of the semester we had no access to slides from the lab. This class is a weed out class. DO NOT TAKE HERRICK.

Blatantly a weed-out course, tells students to "suck it up" in response to the abysmal content load, goes off on bizarre tangents during lectures instead of covering the absurdly high content load, way too much content per test, etc. First exam average: 69 Second exam average: 63 etc. NO CURVE

Must take notes on what she says during lecture, her slides do not have much information on them so there is not any possibility of reviewing them afterwards. Her exams are extremely difficult and ask questions on the smallest details. She doesn't care about student struggles outside of the class and will not make accommodations for emergencies.

Believe what everyone else is saying, please-- she's a terrible teacher. I stopped going to lectures after the first 2 weeks, I taught myself everything using the textbook. If u wanna get a good grade, don't waste ur time going to lecture- read the textbook and understand the concepts. Use herricks 1108 as an opportunity to teach urself biology lol

Has a tendency to go on tangents and reads off the powerpoints she posts online anyway. Not worth going to lecture.

You don't need to go to lectures. The second exam is unnecessarily hard, but the others aren't awful. Memorize the slides and take light notes on the textbook (a lot of the info is unnecessary, use the slides to guide you). The lab quizzes are hard (study for them...!) but the practicals is the exact same questions from the quizzes. Quizlet. Trust.

assignments before each class, lectures she spends discussing personal matters, the textbook and youtube will be all that teaches you in this class. not only does she barely cover material in her lecture, but she will refuse letting you take an exam if you were in the hospital during the exam. she doesnt care for her students nor on if they learn

She is one of the worst professors. This course has 3 exams and the final, and the third exam is on the week before the final. Her lectures and slides are not really helpful for the exams. I skipped all the lectures and only read the textbook which is more useful to prepare for the exams.

Left stem after this class. She is a bit rude as a professor and doesn't provide helpful of feedback post-exam (via email in my case). Talked down on students at times due to it being majority freshman who were enrolled. The lab was way more informative than the lecture but the quizzes were still quite difficult.

She is a very strict grader, and does not accept partial credit. She expects you to study 18 hours a week for her course. Her PowerPoints are very confusing and aren't on the exam. She goes off on tangents about how we need to do better. Her exams are rigged, they are 60% adaptive quiz questions. Lab is helpful but quizzes are still rough.

She actually is not all that bad of a teacher. Her lectures are somewhat good, but you have to read the chapters to learn most of it. This class was just incredibly boring, especially the lab. My reasoning for the low rating is due to her exams. The exams were stupid hard and mostly stemmed from super specific sections of the book. Do not recommend

The worst teacher I have ever had. She is deceptively nice at the start but she ruthlessly picks on students and wastes most of class time talking about herself and her beliefs. Those who rate her well have never had to deal with her personally, she is arrogant and self righteous. If you have critical thinking dont use it in this class.

This course could be the worst experience in school, the workload is super overwhelming while the test is so hard as well. The professor intentionally made a lot of trouble to us and unreasonable strict on all the things. She has reasons for her office hour cancel all the time while we cannot have any reasons for leave even with serious fever.

During lectures, she doesn't talk about content much; she gets distracted, and her exams are challenging, with no instruction on how/what to study when it comes to the exam content.

From my experience in Dr. Herrick's class, she was a rude, unprofessional professor. She was very inconsiderate and had no regard for students well being. In class she would make remarks about unrelated school things and expect students to respect her even after her very off putting words.

While Herrick gives out a lot of extra credit, the course itself is very hard. Her tests are extremely difficult and Lab itself is not easy. Herrick is also very rude and doesn't have a filter when speaking. God forbid you have a medical emergency. There are no retakes for exams & if you miss lab then you fall behind. Use AP Credit to skip class.

Exams are insane. No guidance or study guides. Too much content and only three exams. Confusing.

Extremely poor utilization of lecture time - spending half of the allotted time complaining about Achieve, glazing her peers/colleagues, flaunting her academic prowess, or going on tangents about irrelevant information. No clear grading structure & provided resources for studying are quiet poor.

Susan Herrick has an obvious disdain for students. She spends as much time in lecture justifying her complex and unyielding grading system as she does teaching biology. Do not plan to be ill, or have a family member pass away during the duration of this class - neither is a valid excuse for missing lab, and will result in a 0 on that week's quiz.

DO NOT TAKE IF YOU ARE PRE - MED. I ended up not going to lecture as it never benefited me and she was the worst at instructing. My tip if you do take this class - download her slideshows and add any additionally notes the textbook gives you since you are tested on the slideshow material and the textbook just helps you. Lab was easy tho.

If you are looking for a class to take for the lab requirement, DO NOT pick this one. The lectures were useless and the exam had some unfair questions. Like what everyone is saying, the professor talked about unrelated things a lot in lecture. Avoid this one unless you have no other choices.

The worst professor I have ever had in my life. There is no structure to class and lecture and lab exams are combined and during lab. She doesn't post slides and never told the bookstore about the textbook and didn't care that nobody had the textbook. The amount of content for each exam is insane and both lab and lecture have no structure.

Lectures go by fast. No exam review sheet nor provides a lecture to review. Exams are hard, lots of questions not enough time, some are T/F questions but the rest are 2-3 sentences reading. Does not curve any grades. Questions in the exam are tricky, could have 2 potential answers. Lectures are not recorded. Pre lab videos are not that great either

This is the worst professor I have ever had. The material taught in lectures does not always apply to exams and tests. This is a test-heavy course for both lab and lecture. The lectures go by really fast. No review sheets are given for exams. If you don't have to take this class, spare yourself some suffering or take it elsewhere.

Barely made an A. A for absolutely the worst professor I've ever had. Lectures are disorganized, monotone, and feel like punishment.

Shoutout to my TA. I learned more from him than this horrible professor. Shoutout to Matthew.

Lectures are useless, gets distracted & drifts frequently, most un engaging professor I've had. Hard to reach outside of class, and when she does answer emails she's rude and not understanding at all. Exams are not released, so if you don't have time in your schedule to meet a TA you're essentially not allowed to review

Geniunely one of the worst professors I have ever had. She does not care about you, and she makes it known. There are no study guides, and her tests are extremely difficult. You can not review your past exams unless you have time to meet with a TA. Her lectures are a waste of time, and she will claim that tests are only the lecture material, LIES.

Tests were way too specific and lectures sucked. Did good on the lecture section and just forgot to study for the first lab practical so I got a B+. All the information I learned was outside of class. Skip lectures.

shes such a b, dont take her class youre gonna regret it

The rudest and most passive aggressive professor I've yet to have at UConn. Has no trust towards her students, and don't ask her questions, she'll stare like you should drop the course. Honestly, course itself is very doable but she's very incompassionate. My advice: never email her just email your lab TAs. Her energy is very off putting.

she actually drove me insane, she offers extra credit but wont give you it if you do it cause it "doesnt meet her criteria." like its extra credit its supposed to be easy?? during her exams she takes pictures of the lecture hall and will literally match ur face to see if you are there or if you are taking the exam somewhere else

Grade depends solely on exams, so I skipped all lectures after 2 weeks; they were pointless. Once, the professor had us draw Batman on a surfboard every 5 minutes to illustrate active recall—that sealed it. You'll have to teach yourself. Lab is easy, but this is the worst class. Take it elsewhere; she's the only prof at Storrs.

Her office hours just consist of her being passive aggressive and making you feel stupid

Unfortunately, she is the only professor for this class at UConn. Her teaching ethic can best be summed up by a quote from one of her first lectures of the year: "It is not my job to stand up here and teach you." Expect to cling to the textbook like a lifeline.

She's the only professor for this course, and most of the learning is on you. There isn't much help beyond self-studying. Lectures aren't very helpful, so the online textbook is basically required. Exams and labs are extremely difficult, and she even says, “Expect to get a C in this class rarely anyone gets an A.” Good luck.

As the only person teaching the course she seems to get away with a lot and knows it. She does not hesitate to bully the class for her own short comings. Her lectures are essentially useless as the exams mostly pull info from the textbook (that she doesn't feel obligated to discuss in class). Avoid the class if you can. Not worth the headache.

Your grade is only exams, even in lab. She will not help you to succeed. She is uncaring, inauthentic, and shows a general disdain for her students. Do NOT listen to what she says about not studying certain material, study EVERYTHING. Study by going through slides and then the text book to fill in all the information she misses. Avoid if possible.

Lectures do not help whatsoever. I went from science being my strongest subject to being my worst. Lecture slide material is not half of what is on the exams. Study the textbook.

Very rude. If your grade is a 92.8, she will not raise it no matter what. Kicks people out of class for no reason. Exams are hard.

Professor Herrick's class is disorganized and hard to follow. Lectures are boring, full of tangents, and rarely helpful for exams. She is condescending when reviewing questions and you'll end up teaching yourself. BEWARE OF POST LAB QUIZZES!! As professor Herrick says “be prepared to get a C.” Terrible class and even worse professor.

If you do not need this class DO NOT take it. Lectures were not helpful at all, material is so confusing and Herrick is no help. Focus on lab, that will help your grade a lot. Consists of four exams and the exams have so much material on them. This class will tank your gpa.

Professor Herrick is probably one of the worst professors here. I highly recommend never taking her class, AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS! She's unhelpful, and doesn't care for how you do in her class. Her lectures consist of her rambling over a slide for 20 minutes, so I wouldn't even go. Final was super easy, just do flashcards and review the slides.