<p>Timer? I have no idea what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>The grading really isn’t that harsh. Go to lecture, read the lab beforehand, do the pre-lab, and you’re set. No worries.</p>
<p>Yeah, you need to buy your own goggles. They sell them in the bookstore; I recommend the slightly more expensive ones that they list for orgo lab because they’re more comfortable and the extra few dollars is worth not wanting to claw them off your face all year.</p>
<p>TAs will help, and they don’t deduct points for asking questions. During a test exercise they might not be willing to answer all of your questions, but test exercises are always the second time you’ll be using a technique so you shouldn’t have that many anyway.</p>
<p>My TAs never graded lab notebooks very strictly, but it depends on who you get.</p>