STS 1500

Tolu, Ben, Matt, and Peter are great, helpful teachers! Carlson -- less so. He's obviously a smart guy, but his lectures were uninteresting, generally a little scattered, and often confusing. I much preferred it when Ben and Matt gave lectures -- they were funny and interesting!
This class isn't that hard or time-consuming. I feel like I didn't really learn anything particularly useful in lecture -- but lab assigned some projects that may be useful as examples in the future. Grading was fair.

Well, I think the idea of teaching engineers about how their work affects society is ok but boy does this class fail in execution. The amount of useless Jargon that comes out of the lecturer's mouth is appalling and I could probably summarise each lecture into about a paragraph in terms of actual takeaways and what we need to know. Anyways, this class is really easy and you have to take it in E School, so just do your best and try not to fall asleep.

STS is a weird course. It's split into two parts, lecture and "lab." Lecture is boring, but they take attendance so it's best to go. Just sit in the back and do other homework or watch SportsCenter or something, the time will pass easy enough. Lab is where you'll do most of the actual work--they give you lots of time to do the work during class, so take advantage by getting down to business quickly and you won't have to do much at home. The assignments aren't very interesting (they had us read 30 pages about patent law at one point...), but if you're willing to put the effort in, they don't take long. Overall it's not a bad course, just boring.

It's hard to make engineers interested in a more humanities-focused class. That's why no one really likes taking this class. But, I think some of the readings were actually interesting, and when I wasn't asleep, the lectures made some good points. Fortunately, this class is graded pretty leniently based on if you do the work and follow their grading system.

The lectures and readings in this class are pretty boring, but there were a couple I actually liked. The writing assignments themselves are graded relatively easy, just don't leave all your design notebook ideas for the last day. Try to make lots of friends in this class because it can help you out. Also make sure you get the bonus quizzes because those can help you out.

This class is honestly a snoozefest. “It’s nap time” my friend would always say- they take attendance so roll up and then just nap. The lecture is either a Tuesday or Thursday, and then there’s a discussion section which is smaller and varies from Mon-Fri. This is where you take a majority of the reading quizzes (just do the readings and you’ll do fine) and then 2-ish big group projects so pick a good group in your discussion section. Prof. Carlson is slightly racist and it comes out in one of his lectures about bias. What else can you expect from an old white professor though? Honestly they spend the entire lecture talking about something that could've been condensed to 5-10 minutes. Hopefully soon they will get rid of this requirment for engineers.

This class is super easy and as long as you complete the work and put in 50% effort you should get an A. I got an A (96.8%) and spent less than an hour a work doing work. Lectures are dry and discussions are many times not related but you should show up because the weekly quiz questions are picked straight from the lectures.