Profesor Rasekhi was so nice and accommodating this quarter! Honestly it got off to a bit of a rough start with adjusting to the Zoom environment, but after the mid-quarter survey she definitely made some changes based on feedback.

For the first quiz, a lot of people felt crunched for time (we had 30 minutes), so she gave us a full 2 hours for the second quiz.

The homework each week was really straightforward and useful for preparing for the quizzes. The midterm was pretty much just like a combination of the quizzes and homework. There was one question that was more challenging than the homework and a lot of people had trouble with, and Rasekhi ended up converting that question to extra credit! I'm not sure what the final was like since it was made optional.

Each week, there's a discussion handout that the TAs send out through email. Sometimes it wouldn't get sent out until the night before discussion, but I found that attempting it before discussion was really useful for getting the most out of it and helping to move the discussion along. As a sidenote, I had Kinda as my TA and she was great!

I learned a ton and this class really inspired me to pursue a sci-tech in linguistics. I definitely recommend taking this class if you have even a minor interest in linguistics!