Professor Choe's class was probably one of the more laid back courses I've taken at UCLA, but this is ultimately TA-dependent. I was lucky enough to have a TA that graded lightly and most of our work for completion, but some of my friends who took this class reported unfair grading schemes by their TA (i.e. on the midterm we made the same mistake, but they got -10 and I got -5).

The structure of the class is broken up into weekly assignments, two quarter-long projects, a midterm, and a final, but he allows you to drop any one of these four without any consequence. Ultimately, the midterm was exactly like the practice midterm, with some concepts and numbers changed, and the Community Project and Research Papers were activities you could potentially get done in a night each. That being said, spending the entire quarter on them is definitely recommended, if at least 1-2 hours a week to space out your timing. Overall, I think the course is often branded much more harshly than it should be, and I'm really thankful that I got to explore more of the ethical and biomolecular aspects of Physiology that aren't offered in the core series.