<p>When we pick our classes, can we pick specific teachers? If yes, who's the best professor for general chem? Thanks!</p>
<p>If there is a choice of different professors for a course, you can choose as long as there's open space in that section. Many intro courses have no choice; there's just one lecturer and then section TA's. General chem may be that way, although I don't really know a lot about the sciences here.</p>
<p>I know with first semester gen chem the same 2 professors taught both sections (they split the semester).</p>
<p>Second semester the two different sections had different professors, and from what I've experienced and heard from people in the other section, they were taught very differently. It just depends on what the department decides to do.</p>
<p>First semester we had Palmer and Crumbliss...no option or anything. Both taught from powerpoints, but Crumbliss definitely went more in depth...I enjoyed his part. Second semester I had Macphail who I thought was absolutely fantastic. I've heard interesting stories about the other section, but I don't know much about that. I've also heard things about Mukundan who taught the year before I got here...I hear she was pretty easy...lol.</p>
<p>The posters before me pretty much got it, but I'll just say that for some classes, it's worth waiting a semester to get a good (re: not horrible) professor.</p>
<p>Once you get your unique NetID in May, go to <a href="http://evals.aas.duke.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://evals.aas.duke.edu/</a> for professor reviews written by students. It's a new system that just gone up so the database is not huge yet.</p>
<p>dukestudent...</p>
<p>I think you have to be on the university server in order to view the evals site. I hope I'm wrong, but I haven't been able to access it since it went online.</p>
<p>You may be right - I know you have to have a NetID. I guess you can just as us questions then, but I wouldn't worry about it too much. You will have 2 weeks of add/drop in August.</p>
<p>If you have a Duke NET ID, you can download the Duke VPN client and log in to see the eval stuff. See <a href="http://www.oit.duke.edu/remote_access/vpn.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.oit.duke.edu/remote_access/vpn.html</a> for details.</p>
<p>wow, thanks for all the info. how about calc 31?</p>
<p>There's only one review up. Apparently Jack Bookman's notes are helpful, though not always clear. He is also very funny.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry too much about this now. But if you want more info, maybe try hitting up a Duke-specific messageboard or the blue_devils community on LiveJournal. The people on LJ always seem open to giving advice about professors, and 31L is a pretty common class.</p>
<p>BIP, you're a JLU fan?! I'm just about to leave and I finally find another fan...</p>
<p>...did you find me on LJ? Ahahahaha...I'm sorry, I'm just kind of surprised is all.</p>
<p>Yes I am a huge JLU fan, as you could probably tell by the fact that half my recent LJ posts are JLU music videos. I didn't think other fans existed at Duke. :p</p>
<p>also check out ratemyprofessors.com - theres a lot of reviews there</p>