Sue Merkel - Cornell University

Professor: Sue Merkel
Department: Science
College: Cornell University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI2500
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Prof Merkel was the worst professor I've ever had at cornell. During a pandemic, she was not understanding, extremely rude, and did not take criticism well when a couple of students reached out to her with concerns over the ridiculously long quizzes. a bunch of stupid in class assignments were given and points get taken off left and right. avoid!!!
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: BIOM2500
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
*** for 2500**** Just really impossible to do well, material isn't that difficult but tests are. Unfair grading and really tedious and unenjoyable. Merkel is a good guy but just really lacks inspiration. Probably my worst class in entire college experience
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI2500
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Expect to be in class everyday if you want to do well, because a lot of your learning and your grade is based on in class assignments. She focuses a lot on application of material rather than regurgitation. She is incredibly rude and condescending, hates being wrong. Nevertheless, if you try hard and your efforts are noticed, you may be rewarded
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: BIO2500
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She is a terrible professor. Can't teach and just assigns a bunch of in-class assignments. She is rude and disrespectful, and no one feels comfortable going to her for questions. Most of the class dropped before the drop deadline. Do not take if you don't need to.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI2911
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I'll start by saying that I loved the lab, and my TA's. That said, Sue made the quizzes nearly impossible to do well on, and they might have well have been called exams, they were so difficult. I felt I was doing very well in the class, but my grades never reflected that because she took off as many points as she possibly could on everything.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI291
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
BIOMI291 is the best lab course I've taken at Cornell. Sue is helpful and low-key. She's picky about notebook checks, and you have to do your prelab work to do well on her lab quizzes, but her students do much better on the practicals and recitation tests. And, she has an awesome plush cyanobacterium.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI291
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
she has got to be the nicest TA in micro lab, she is willing to help out with all your questions and her grading is not bad at all, i have no idea what you guys are talking about when you bad mouth her, but she is a really nice teacher and the class is easy
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI291
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I have Sue as my lab section TA and she's great. Don't listen to what the other people say; she really is very nice and willing to answer any questions anyone has.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI291
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She is by far the worst teacher I have ever had. Whatever interest in Microbiology I had previously is gone thanks to her. She is extremely rude and condiscending...not only does she dissuade the learning atmosphere through her unwillingness to help she actually discourages students from asking questions!
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI291
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She's awful. I hate listening to her lecture and her tests are SO unclear. Bad.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: MICRO
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I put a comment about her on this website earlier and now it's gone, she is very unhelpful and was quite rude when I went to her office, if you get her as a lab ta, switch labs asap
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: MICROBIO
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI291
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Really friendly and helpful; always willing to help at office hours
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: BIOMI290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
inconsistant
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