Nsg 3450 Exam 1

[Maren Ruminski]

ProfAngadi is extremely rude, stuck up, and unkind to his students. He teaches the class in a way where he expects every student to have an extensive background in Kinesiology and medicine (when many people don't). He is sassy with the way he writes his emails and refuses to round (even when people have 89.67s). The class itself is very interesting but it is difficult, especially if you do not have a background in Kinesiology and are taking it for the health and wellbeing minor. Overall, disappointed because I think this class could have been amazing if it was taught by someone who was kind, understanding, respectful and receptive towards their students.

Overall, the course is very interesting. Dr. Siddhartha Angadi is extremely knowledgeable and essentially has all of the research papers memorized from cover to cover. He gives you many research papers to read, but he goes over the main idea of all of them in class. The papers are extremely dense and you honestly just need to know the main ideas from the papers. He goes over all of the important points in class. All of the knowledge that you gain from this class will be from research studies. The course material is honestly quite mind-blowing. We have some very nice whole-class discussions during class, especially Dr. Angadi is very sassy (condescending at times especially when he exposes bogus claims) and entertaining. However, this is definitely one of the harder kinesiology classes. This course has no room for error when it comes to getting an A. The threshold for an A is 95% (which is just too high). Many professors use 95% as the threshold for an A because this is UVA's default cutoff for an A (and many professors like Dr. Angadi are simply too lazy to change it). There are 3 midterm exams and they are all averaged. The 2nd and 3rd exams had only 25 questions, meaning that you were already below the threshold for an A if you missed more than one question. The first exam had 30 questions, so there was more wiggle room. There is an optional final exam, but the final exam is factored in and averaged with the other 3 midterms if you decide to take it. Taking the final exam does not replace your lowest exam grade. I got 91.5, 100, and 94, respectively on the 3 midterms, which means that I got just the right number of questions correct to secure an A for the course. This is the only class that I've ever taken at the university where there were no fixed exam dates in the syllabus. He tells us about the exams a week before. The exams open on Thursday afternoon after class and you have until Tuesday at noon to take them, so you have the entire weekend to take them. Once you open the exam, you have 75 minutes to complete it. Even though the exam was completely open-book, some of the answers are extremely hard to find in your notes. The best way to study for these exams is to study with other students and see how they take notes. Having other people to study with is very helpful to succeed in the exams. Taking structured notes is key to success in this course since the exams are open-book and you need to know where to find answers. The 1st exam has computational problems, which he does not teach in class and expects you to learn on your own from an equation sheet and a vague haphazard video. The second and third exams had no computational problems. The exams are all multiple-choice and select-all-that-apply questions. Make sure you read the questions and answer choices carefully. DO NOT TRY AND GOOGLE ANSWERS!!!!! A big portion of the course is exposing bogus commercials and bogus claims in the media. In short, take this course if you are minoring in health and well-being or if you are majoring in kinesiology. Do not take this course as a GPA booster because the odds are that you will wind up with an A- instead of an A. There are many other courses in the school of Education/Human Development that you can take to inflate your GPA: EDIS & EDHS.

First of all, this is not an easy A class. There is no curve in the class, and the way the assignments are graded are kind of annoying, namely peerceptiv. Gradescope also doesn't give you any type of partial credit, and it used for a lot of the homework and lecture exercises. I managed to scrape an A-, but if you are invested into this class, it shouldn't be too hard to get an A.

The class felt more like a bit like a history class a lot of the time. It was interesting at points, and if the spaceflight and its history is your thing than definitely take this class. Murphy is passionate about this field and it clearly comes across in his lectures, but they didn't really connect with me, as I wasn't that heavily invested in the subject. Good class, but certainly not a super easy elective.

Murphy is a fantastic professor who couldn't be more personally invested in the subject matter. If you want to learn about astronomy, take his courses. If you're looking for an easy class and you aren't actually very interested in astronomy or spaceflight, you will almost certainly hate this course and any of his other courses. In this particular offering of the course, the pandemic hit and it transitioned to online. I thought Murphy handled the transition well and the instruction didn't suffer in the slightest. If anything, the instruction got a little better because he didn't need to answer student questions (he posted recorded lectures), allowing him to remain focused on the topic for the entire duration. As far as the content of this class goes, I found it interesting, although not as focused on Martian activities as I thought it would be. Since I enjoy the broader topic of spaceflight, though, I didn't mind. However I know this bothered some people who were only interested in the material related to Mars, so bear that in mind when enrolling.

This class wasn't really what I was expecting. It's sort of false advertising to call it "Missions to Mars" when we didn't talk about missions to Mars until the last three-ish weeks. The first two-thirds of the class is more about the history of spaceflight and mechanics of spaceflight, which is interesting, but not really what I signed up for. There is a decent amount of math in this class with things like orbital mechanics and Kepler's laws, but its not too bad and we got formula sheets for the exams. I didn't find the exams to be all that difficult, but there was a lot of math and free response questions which were a shock to my multiple choice programmed mind. There were readings and some exam questions were based on readings, but you can get by without them (I did). The weekly homework is either a series of short answer questions on gradescope or a longer assignment on peerceptive that could be around a page long writing assignment. Peerceptive, by the way, was a nightmare. Did not like, 0/10. It was impossible to figure out why you were getting points off for things you submitted. Everything is peer graded and then you have to rank the peer reviews you got based on how helpful they are and you get points off if you give everyone a good score even if they were actually all good submissions. So yeah, a nightmare. But as long as you submit everything on time and do the work well your grades will be fine either way. There was also a final group project through peerceptive but it wasn't that bad and my group did it in a few days. Not a bad class, just frustrating and not what I was hoping for. It wasn't actually difficult and I got an A, but it sometimes felt like more trouble than it was worth. Good luck :) #tCFspring2021

If you're thinking about taking this class for an easy A, like I did, or because it seems easy: do NOT. The amount of work that we all put into this class is ridiculous. A couple of weeks throughout the semester he assigned us over 5 hours worth of lecture to watch in addition to lecture exercises and homework. There is also no partial credit whatsoever on exams so if you mess up even the slightest on a math problem, you're getting a 0/10 for the question. Peerceptive peer review grades were simply awful in the way that the system works. So many students have complained about it but he does not change it. He also doesn't even discuss a mission to Mars until the last 2-3 weeks of the semester, so if you're genuinely curious about Mars this class is not worth it. I've seen people say that he is engaging but I think it was the opposite, he would just read off of slides. The class is based on lecture exercises that go alongside the lectures, 2 quizzes (midterms), homework assignments, a final project, and a cumulative final exam.

His lectures are very engaging. You only need to read a few fictions and complete some easy exams. If you have taken ASTR 1210, you will nail the math and science part of this class since the materials are related. It's also heavy on spaceflight history.

Murphy is one of the most engaging professors at UVA. He focuses mainly on spaceflight in general as opposed to Mars. The class was much more interesting when it was in person...the transition to online was a lot less interesting because he no longer began classes with "what is happening today in space." Overall, HW was easy and the tests were exactly like the HW problems.

I took this class the first semester that it was offered. It was focused a lot on space travel in general and got more into the actual missions to Mars towards the end of the semester. Murphy gave a lot of cool insights about astronauts and his past hopes to become one himself. His love for space travel made this class so engaging. Definitely recommend!

I took this class the first semester it was offered. Murphy is a pretty good lecturer and his lectures were pretty engaging. The homeworks were very simple and easy, same for the tests. Unfortunately, however, this course didn't have much Mars-related content and was more just about space travel in general. Mars was only really looked at in detail in the last couple of weeks.

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