AJ Vasiliou

I was surprisingly disappointed with this class. I had Professor Vasiliou for Gen Chem and she was great, but she just didn't seem motivated to teach this class. She rarely answered a question directly, and had a tendency to go on long tangents about broad issues only distantly related to the material. I just wish we had covered more actual content of thermodynamics and kinetics in class to prepare us for the exams.

I was surprisingly disappointed with this class. I had Professor Vasiliou for Gen Chem and she was great, but she just didn't seem motivated to teach this class. She rarely answered a question directly, and had a tendency to go on long tangents about broad issues only distantly related to the material. I just wish we had covered more …Read more

I didn't find that AJ was always the best at explaining topics, but she was very kind and knowledgable about the material. You just really have to push to get answers to your questions. But I found the exams quite easy, and so was the grading! Not a course to worry about.

This course was a weird one. AJ is super enthusiastic about the topics, and obviously is experienced and quite talented at the subject, but, at least in my opinion, is pretty hopeless at actually explaining the concepts to us. Her lectures were disorganized and kind of all over the place, spending way too much time on easy things, and then rushing past the difficult stuff. I really found it hard to actually grasp the course material. And then there's her grading system. She is generally a lenient grader, and I ended up doing well in her class, but the exams and HW themselves are often difficult or just straight up confusing with what they are asking. Not that this really matters though, because she also decided to make all her tests completely self-scheduled and take home. Although the exams are technically closed note, but with a notecard, let's be real. This means that to be honest, even if you don't know what's going on, you can still do well. Really don't like the take-home exams as they basically force the student against a moral wall, either cheat (which is made super easy) or try to figure out the problems based off her confusing lecture and probably do badly. I wish she would reorganize things, or at least get a better handle on the fact that for the most part her students don't really know what's going on in Thermo.

This course was a weird one. AJ is super enthusiastic about the topics, and obviously is experienced and quite talented at the subject, but, at least in my opinion, is pretty hopeless at actually explaining the concepts to us. Her lectures were disorganized and kind of all over the place, spending way too much time on easy things, an …Read more