<p>Do people like grad school at Berkeley? Specifically anyone doing Chemistry gradwork in inorganics?</p>
<p>i think you might have a hard time getting a response for that. Most here are college students.</p>
<p>isn’t berkeley the best school for inorganic chemistry in the world??</p>
<p>[Inorganic</a> - Chemistry - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-chemistry-schools/inorganic-science]Inorganic”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-chemistry-schools/inorganic-science)</p>
<p>If you look at the chemistry department as a whole, we are ranked #1 with a few other schools.</p>
<p>I think almost all chem grad students are GSI’s for undergrad classes. In addition to studying for their classes, they also have commit a lot of time taking charge of a lab section and grading their students’ work. But yeah, I just took Chem 4A and most of the GSI’s were in physical/theoretical chem but I think all of them were young geniuses. It’s really not hard to tell they just aced their undergraduate chem study.</p>
<p>Grad school at Berkeley ROCKS. No questions. It’s just a question of the finer points – i.e. there could be places that suit a given individual better, but we have really strong programs.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, how do the chem gsi’s get divided to teach chem 1a and chem 4a? Because it seems to me and most of my friends in chem 1a that our chem 1a GSIs sucked. Mine practically couldn’t answer half of the students’ questions.</p>
<p>hmm… i guess i was wrong. you did get a lot of response.</p>
<p>well the GSIs apply for the class they want to teach and i know that for chem 4a, they had to have at least one semester of teaching experience (meaning they were GSI’s before already) and write extensive essays and conduct interviews to prove why they’re qualified. my GSI was actually the only first-year grad, but she told me she got in probably because she joined a research group in her freshman year in undergrad (!) and remained there for 4 years.</p>
<p>i did hear some seriously terrible GSI’s in chem 1a, but that was definitely not the case for chem 4a.</p>