Zhu isn't much of a lecturer but her notes are so much better than Kajiura's. Kajiura's notes will have one line about a topic and that line will correspond to like 2 pages of the textbook. I also found that she was a little too nice: she likes and encourages questions, but a lot of the time that just ended up with half the lecture spent answering questions that had nothing to do with the material because people were trying to show how "proactive" and "interested" and "smart" they were. I didn't go to Zhu's lectures much because they were bad, but I also skipped some of Kajiura's lectures because I didn't want to spend half an hour listening to keeners suck up. Difference was that Zhu at least provided good notes for me to study off of. This is personal opinion of course, and it didn't bother a lot of people.
And there's a chance you won't get bio 1M03 first term, of course. Even if you don't, just study hard and it's not the end of the world. Quinn's questions aren't as bad and Evans' questions on the final were much better than on the midterm. I know people, including myself, that managed a decent grade with Evans/Quinn so you just have to put some real work into it.
I would just like to point out that going to other cores is fine as long as it's not full. If the room is packed, or is usually packed, and you go, you're taking someone's seat who actually is in that core. Yes, in first year no one will actually know you don't belong in there. But it's rude and you would hate it if you got Lovric or some great prof you loved, and found that you have to sit on the stairs or something because other people hate their prof and crash your class.
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