<p>the professor for my chem class was finally posted and i was wondering if anyone could give an opinion over Sarah Stefan. </p>
<p>Ive read things on ratemyprofessor.com but im hoping those were just disgruntled students who failed the class and felt like bashing on the teacher. </p>
<p>Thanks for any input. =)</p>
<p>Is that Chm1025?</p>
<p>I just had her over Summer B... She sucks at teaching, but her tests arent hard, you can clearly tell that she doesnt have enough experience to be comfortable lecturing infront of 300+ students... As long as you do the assigned works ON TIME, you will definately pull an A in her class, worst case scenerio, just to tow TutoringZone before every exam, helps alot.</p>
<p>anyone know anything about Adam Veige for chm2046?</p>
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I just had her over Summer B... She sucks at teaching, but her tests arent hard, you can clearly tell that she doesnt have enough experience to be comfortable lecturing infront of 300+ students... As long as you do the assigned works ON TIME, you will definately pull an A in her class, worst case scenerio, just to tow TutoringZone before every exam, helps alot.
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<p>Well she is a grad student so she doesn't have the teaching experience yet to be good at it. A skill that can be hard to develop if you have bad communication skills. </p>
<p>Did you at least have a good peer mentor?</p>
<p>^^ That is so true, she's definately lacking communication skills, and tends to make her mistakes into very awkward moments for herself...lol. And my peer mentor is useless, never asked him one question through out the whole summer semester.</p>
<p>Has anyone ever had Keaffaber for chm2045 and Jiangtao mac mac2311?</p>
<p>I heard Keaffaber was a good professor. He's really nice and willing to help you, from what I hear. CHM2045 exams are assembly exams which means everyone takes the exam on the same day, during the night, so all the chem professors make the exam together. It will definitely benefit you if you have a professor who knows how to teach the material and is willing to help you. Just look at <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessor.com%5B/url%5D">www.ratemyprofessor.com</a> if you want to know about more ratings.</p>
<p>hey sobe!</p>
<p>are you by any chance in CHM1025 Tue Thur 3rd period?</p>
<p>That's what I'm in.</p>
<p>Yeah I read those about Stefan. The whole "if a small child with downs syndrome tried to teach a toddler how to function in daily life, that would be like Stefan teaching chemistry" is pretty harsh.</p>
<p>yup, thats the exact class. </p>
<p>im hoping may be she'll be better for the fall term?
at least I find solace in knowing im not the only anxious about having her as my professor. =p</p>
<p>also, im thinking a lot of my teacher are grad students...</p>
<p>anyone know anything about a Steven Miley who is teaching Precal this fall?</p>
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I heard Keaffaber was a good professor. He's really nice and willing to help you, from what I hear. CHM2045 exams are assembly exams which means everyone takes the exam on the same day, during the night, so all the chem professors make the exam together. It will definitely benefit you if you have a professor who knows how to teach the material and is willing to help you. Just look at <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessor.com%5B/url%5D">www.ratemyprofessor.com</a> if you want to know about more ratings.
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<p>The thing is my calc prof (Jiangtao) isn't on the site.</p>
<p>That's one of the reasons I opted to take some higher level courses with actual professors rather than start out easier with some of the graduate students. I've never had class with one of them and I know they are everywhere, but I think a lot of them are a toss-up as to whether they can actually teach in front of a large audience. I know a lot of those "lower" math classes like pre-calc and algebra and the intro science courses like CHM1025 can be taught by basically anyone who knows about the subject because they are very basic introductions.</p>
<p>Just to give you an idea (so you feel better about your class), I heard CHM 1025 covers the first six chapters of the book in a semester while CHM 2047 covers the first six chapters in a week.</p>
<p>Yup, CHM1025 only covers 6 chapters during a semester. In CHM2045, they cover those 6 chapters in a couple of weeks, and your first exam is on those 6 chapters. So, you'll be taking your CHM1025 final all over again.</p>