Awful teacher. I studied the study guide for a week leading to midterm and still got a 65%. She said if you attended all the lectures and took all the quizzes you’d get a 90 and I did all of those and still failed. She thinks she’s the best teacher when in reality she sucks. Only people that like her are the ones that kiss ass.

Took this class because I heard great things about her, only to have a completely different professor than the one described by people who had her last semester. She was rude for no reason in emails when students were simply looking for clarification or help. Tests are harder than they should be and no answers are provided for the study guide.

Was looking forward to taking the class. Even though my grade is good so far, she is one of the hardest professors I have had to work with. She is rude and comes off as very intimidating. From other people's experiences with her, I feel scared to reach out to her with questions. One of the classes I have had to put the most work into so far.

If you are looking for a professor that cares about their students and wants to help students succeed, this is the wrong professor. Yirong is straight up rude to the majority of students that come to her for help. She's incredibly dismissive and refuses to answer questions on how to improve. She invalidates your ideas & hard work. wants you to fail

Do not take this class. The content is sort of difficult but Yirong is the reason the class is horrible. Makes everything much harder than it has to be. She is so inconsiderate of her students. It's like she wants you to struggle no matter how hard you work. Save yourself.

The only prof who doesn't accept constructive criticism. After the 1st midterm she asked for feedback.. and then sent a nasty email deeming what was "good" vs "bad" feedback (all of the critical feedback was "bad"). Acts entitled to praise even though she's horrible and has a big ego. any other prof would appreciate any feedback, good or bad.

NS132 was recommended to me as a relatively easy, interesting class. First semester students said Yirong was understanding. This semester, that is not the case. She purposely ignores students emails and I had to email her multiple times to get a response. She has been blatantly rude to so many students. One of the worst professors I have ever had.

She comes across as insecure and unwilling to take criticism. Easy class but she makes it a lot harder than it needs to be and is disrespectful to her students. She writes nasty emails and changed assignment guidelines multiple times during the semester with little warning.

Single worst professor I've ever had. She is incredibly rude and egocentric. She was an incredible hinderance on my mental health. If you said a single word to a classmate during lecture, she'd stop teaching, ask for your name, and she'd lower your grade by a letter grade. The answer key to the final exam simply said "see lecture" for each answer.

She is just an awful teacher. No two ways about it. The content is interesting at times, but she is unbearable to listen to. Not going to this class and sitting through her unbearably boring lectures was a time saver. She gets mad if you look up resources on the internet if something isn't clear and deducts points for it. Avoid her at all costs.

One of the worst professors. Can't give lectures and can't assign homework correctly. Just using a few jokes in class to attract classmates, the lectures have no logic The rules of quizzes are terrible so terrible, don't come to this class.

If I could give her a 0 I would. This is an absurd class and would not recommend to anyone. Literal waste of my time. I do not know a single person in my class that actual enjoys or even doesn't mind the class.

I have never minded a "tough" or "hard" teacher. However, I absolutely hate this course and this professor. The weekly quizes were already hard when you had access to online notes, but now we have to use honorlock. The rules she uses for honorlock are absurd - scanning the room, ONLY paper notes, and flags everything. It is an invasion of privacy.

Enjoyed this professor at the beginning of the semester but her lectures got gradually worse. Way too high of expectations for such an intro-level class. Expects you to retain every little bit of information in lectures - which is a lot. Quizzes were difficult enough and even more difficult now with no notes and honor lock. Do not recommend it.

Some of the easiest course content I've ever had and yet one of the hardest courses I took all due to the professor. After kids had low average quiz scores she went and made it even harder by taking away the use of notes. Tries to be relatable but fails. Calls kids out in lectures for no reason and says she will take away their points. Dont Take

I was actually excited for this class, and I will no longer be taking any more classes like this because of how bad this class is. She ruined it for me.

Ruined what was supposed to be a simple, yet interesting, intro-level course to nutrition. Completely unreasonable expectations for students and course material (she wants you to memorize every tiny detail & anecdote since it shows up on quizzes). Find another class if you just want bio-sci credit; if you need this class for some reason then sorry.

a sweet woman at first glance, but this class is essentially memorizing arbitrary information because she will put her memes and anecdotes on her quizzes. she also assigns a crazy amount of out-of-class work (several articles/youtube videos, add'l lecture recordings, self-learning modules) on top of lecture material. quizzes are now honor-locked :/

I used to be passionate about nutrition until I took this course. The amount of work she assigns is completely absurd and only serves to eat up my time instead of actually learning the material. But, every small detail is needed to be memorized because the quizzes could take any detail. I strongly recommend against taking this course with Prof Wang

never take it again

TBH, lectures are good. However, quizzes include too many details to remember. Testing the students on the exact number of years Marguerite got unpaid is the way to learn a class? Why not let kids spend time looking at real food labels? Why not do interesting projects? NS should be strongly connected with real life rather than doing quizzes weekly.

I took this class FA22 and she was honestly just a rude professor who was often passive aggressive for no reason. She stopped class if she heard even the smallest amount of whispering and took those people down letter grades, which was just waste of everyone's time and unneeded. She was also rude when asking questions and was not understanding.

Took this class b/c I needed one more science class. It is now the hardest class I'm enrolled in. Quizzes are nearly impossible thanks to her being the most nit-picky grader ever. Can't even go to her with questions as she herself is unhelpful and frankly just rude. If you want to stress over unimportant things every lecture then take this class

She makes simple concepts extremely hard to understand. Her quizzes are extremely hard, and honorlock makes them even harder. Way too much work for a 3-credit class. I do not know one person who likes the class.

I needed to complete credits and everyone told me this was the best class to take it was easy and very straight forward, however they had a different professor. Professor Wang takes weeks to respond to emails, makes the lectures confusing and hard to follow. The quizzes are very difficult and are based off of tiny things she has said maybe once.

this class is genuinely more frustrating than the upper-level classes i'm taking for my major. quizzes are essentially a test to see if you've retained every single word out of her mouth. she made quizzes honorlocked so now we have to print our 15 pages of notes every week and frantically flip through them looking for the tiniest details. stay away

Wish I never took this course.

The most ridiculous class I have ever taken at UW-Madison. Unless you can memorize every-little thing she says at a rapid pace this class will be extremely hard for you. Quizzes are extremely hard for no reason and induce so much unneeded stress. Would not recommend this professor to anyone!

Horrible professor. Quizzed weekly on things that are impossible to remember. If you don't remember word for word what she says in class you aren't doing well on the quiz. Assigns modules over breaks that are 4 or more hours of work to be quizzed on 10 questions. She told us it is her last semester teaching so next year's freshmen get off lucky.

Quizzes are literally impossible and honorlocked. She doesn't even allow us to look at what we do wrong in the quizzes?! How am I supposed to improve my grade, if I don't know what I did wrong in the first place. Do not take this class. There are easier bio sci credits out there.

The interestingness of the course content is horribly offset by the terrible methods with which it's being taught to us. I get quizzed on the tiniest details that were half-mentioned in a singular lecture. She tries to trick us with ambiguous wording for the answer choices; I can't differentiate between what's poor grammar vs an attempted trick.

AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL! Unless you like to be tested on minute details said once during lectures, do not take this class. She ruined interesting information by presenting it an unorganized manner, where you have to write down everything she says - which takes away from learning. The amount of work that has to be done in this 3 credit class is absurd.

She is rude and inconsiderate, and just an overall not good professor. Teaches her opinions as facts, and structured the class in a way which makes it impossible to really learn the material.

The quizzes are absurdly difficult for a class that is supposed to be intro-level class. You are expected to recall things that were covered in lecture for maybe 10 seconds. The class is a literal waste of time because it is set up in a way that makes it impossible to actually retain the information. She's also just rude.

Tests the most minute details regarding her personal life during quizzes and expects us to know those answers. Quizzes every week combined with self-learning tests spread out throughout the semester. I've spent more time on this elective than I have in my specialized classes.

Do all that you can to avoid this class. Genuinely just not a good person. Quizzes on the minute details of the class and her personal opinions that often-times clash with what is taught in lectures. Gives her best attempt to make this class difficult, which seems very much so to be an ego-centric motive to force students to prioritize her gen-ed.

A flat-out rude person. Her office hours are pointless, her lectures suck, and her quizzes are worded more cryptically than any I've ever had to take. Quizzes are hardly related to lecture, and no matter how much you study, her trick questions and opinion-based answers are simply unanswerable.

This is quite possibly the worst teacher I've ever had. I go to lecture, take all notes, and yet cannot even pass the weekly HONORLOCKED quizzes she gives out. I believe Prof Wang is leaving after this semester (thank god) and It should be an easy A but due to broken promises and a syllabus that she fully ignored, that did not happen.

Awful teacher, awful class, awful class structure, awful lectures, awful amount of work, awful quizzes.

She literally changed the syllabus so many times!! I would have dropped the course had I known she was going to pull the type of stuff she does. Open note online quizzes turned into HONORLOCK and only paper note quizzes. Such a bad teacher - rude and inconsiderate of her students. I do more work for this class than I do for my upper level ones.

Not only does this class require most of my attention and effort, but she is also super rude and inconsiderate to her students. Having a quiz due Wednesday, a self-learning module quiz due Sunday, and another quiz the following Wednesday is a joke. Especially since they are honor locked even though her syllabus said open note quizzes in week 1.

I despise this course solely because of Yirong and how horribly she runs her class. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF SHE IS YOUR PROFESSOR. It isn't worth the stress that this pre-req will cause you. My hardest classes don't cause this kind of stress and yet Yirong found a way to do it.

She literally changed the syllabus multiple times after the semester already started. The quizzes are absurdly hard. She tries to seem all funny and quirky because she puts memes in her lectures but she's actually such a rude person. I despise this class because of Yirong.

Wayyy too much stuff to do for a 3-credit class. Not worth your time.

There is only one month left before the end of the semester, and I still do not know what the grading scales are. Does anyone know? I don't mean that vague promise of "above mean or get a median " from Professor Wang.

Spent my easter Sunday watching 4 hours of lecture videos so I could complete the quiz that's due today. Absolute joke of a class. I've never seen a professor care less about their students its embarrassing. Don't take nutri sci with yirong she's unbelievably rude. This is my Least favorite class I've taken in my entire life.

The most awful professor I have ever had, she made the class 100 times harder than it had to be and I didn't learn a thing. She will put things on the quizzes that she doesn't cover in class, and it seems like she purposely words the questions on the quizzes to trick students. Absolutely ridiculous. DO NOT TAKE. I am suffering.

If you genuinely have nothing better to do than watch the same lecture recordings & do the same readings every single week and scanning it for the tiniest details, then this is the class for you. If you actually enjoy having a decent GPA and maintaining your mental health, do what's best for you by staying as far away from this class as you can.

Not the class for you if you just need bio-sci credit. No other class will have the same amount of tedium and result in the same amount of fury. Anything good you've potentially heard about this professor is no longer true and you should save yourself.

Not much to say which hasn't been said already, just avoid Yirong at all costs. Not only will she post "missed material" after lectures which equate to another full lecture period, but the quizzes are impossible due to her grammar. Is it a trick question? Nobody knows.

Awful teacher, awful person. Insane amount of work; way too much for a 3-cred class. Tests are nearly impossible due to honorlock and wordiness. You must take notes on everything she says or you risk failing. Half of the questions I never know if she is trying to trick us by wording it weird or if it is a grammar mistake (which there is a lot of).

I should NOT have to spend well over 5 hours a week on an intro level, 3 cred class. I go to lecture then have to also watch recordings. Ridiculous. I never use RMF, but this teacher is so awful. I was going to double major in nutri sci, but she ruined it for me. I can't stand the subject now. Read all the other reviews.

I have never minded a "hard" teacher ... but I cannot stand this professor or this course. I feel like pulling my hair out due to the obnoxious nature of the weekly quizzes. Unless you are literally taking ALL other easy classes, do not take. WAY too much work. BE WARNED

The lowest grade I have ever had in my entire life is in this class this semester. Yirong acts like this isn't a gen-ed 3-credit science class with mainly freshman. The only reason anyone is in it is to fill credits for other majors and she treats the class like we have been learning this stuff our whole lives. Can't stand her, super rude person.

The amount of work that goes into this class is ridiculous! The quizzes are close to impossible to do well on, the self-learning modules are an insane amount of work, and you have to take notes on everything little thing for both! I have so much hate towards this class. Completely ruined a subject I was passionate about. Really bad teacher

I did not mean to put that I would take a course with her again on post below this - accidentally clicked it. I would never take again and or recommend her to anyone at all

Here I am again, watching/reading another 3 hrs worth of videos and articles to learn absolutely nothing that will be helpful on the quiz. 99% of Professor Wang's quiz questions either have nothing to do with what we actually learned in lecture or are worded so that they are impossible to understand. Do yourself a favor and steer clear of her class

Everyone was pretty accurate. All I have found is dread in a topic I enjoy. She is an inconsiderate egotist who is genuinely just ridiculous in her demands. She is not a good reflection of nutritional science.

Check your email for AEFIS assessments. Fill out the one for this class there's no word limit.

Bro posts like 2 hours of additional lecture a week because she can't figure out how to keep her lessons within 50 minutes. She gets super mad if people even whisper briefly. Overall rude, egocentric, and annoying as hell

although it was nice that she curved the class for an 82 to be an A, there was way too much work for this being a 3 credit class and the quizzes were near to impossible to do good on unless you got the answers.

this class is really hard and quiz heavy if you arent a biology major.