<p>How hard or challenging is Chem 114A? And is it possible to get an A in 140C if I got C's in 140A and B?</p>
<p>just trying to prepare for next quarter...</p>
<p>i got a B+ and B- in 140A/B respectively, and rocked 140C. for me, things that helped were (1) getting a better professor for my learning style and (2) having taken the ochem labs A-C beforehand.</p>
<p>i found all my upper division chem classes way easier (and more interesting) than the lower div ones. 114A isn’t that difficult, but make sure to allocate enough time for studying when 114B rolls around. that one’s tricky.</p>
<p>Astrina, I’m guessing you took either Theodorakis or Kobayashi for 140B? I think it should be a requirement for Ochem professors to not have an accent.</p>
<p>Oh man, how is Theodorakis? I seem to get mixed feedback on him… makes me anxious about taking his 140B class.</p>
<p>Some people liked him because he is very nonchalant. Some people didn’t like him because of his accent and teaching style.</p>
<p>To be blatant I didn’t think he was that good. He barely used the board when he taught it and his accent was sometimes hard to understand. Most people just studied his slides to get the grade. A very different experience if you had Albizati or Ternansky. Maybe he just had a bad quarter with us because his ratings were the lowest of all the 140B profs when I took him.</p>
<p>Actually I had Weizman for both 140A/B. It wasn’t so much as his accent as … other stuff.</p>
<p>But the accent doesn’t really bother me unless they’re really unintelligible (like Kobayashi). For example, Tor was my 140C professor, still has a light Israeli accent, and was a fantastic lecturer, anticipated his students’ needs, and had a sense of humor to boot. I also took a stellar medicinal chemistry seminar with Hermann (German). At the end of the day, science is still an international language.</p>