Thomas Anderson

As a visual learner, I loved Orgo I, and it was way better than Gen Chem for me. However, Prof. Anderson's lecture style consists of writing complete sentences on the board and doing some examples on occasion. I felt like I learned most when we did the specific practice problems on our review day the day before our exam, but every other day just made me confused and frustrated. The exams are pretty challenging, and oftentimes felt more challenging than the practice problems and problem sets, which was super frustrating and honestly felt pretty unfair. He isn't great at explaining concepts in office hours, so Organic Chemistry Tutor on YouTube really helped me in this class. I took this class for a pre-med requirement, and overall, feel relatively prepared for this information on the MCAT, but am lacking a ton of confidence in it because of the exams being harder than the practice problems.

As a visual learner, I loved Orgo I, and it was way better than Gen Chem for me. However, Prof. Anderson's lecture style consists of writing complete sentences on the board and doing some examples on occasion. I felt like I learned most when we did the specific practice problems on our review day the day before our exam, but every ot …Read more

orgo is supposed to be hard but i think that this course was unproportionately difficult. everything makes sense during lecture and prof a is very good at taking and answering questions, but the answers are not always very helpful and the exams are way more difficult than the practice and hw problems. one thing i do appreciate from this prof is how straightforward he is in his expectations, i just think he could give a bit more grace considering how difficult he makes the exams. lab saved me from failing tbh.

orgo is supposed to be hard but i think that this course was unproportionately difficult. everything makes sense during lecture and prof a is very good at taking and answering questions, but the answers are not always very helpful and the exams are way more difficult than the practice and hw problems. one thing i do appreciate from t …Read more

This course was very lecture heavy as every class would just be note taking from the board. Most of the learning came from outside of class via tutorials and problem sets. TA hours were very helpful for these. The problem sets and exams tended to be difficult compared to problems we did in class. Lab was great and Rafa was the best.