CHEM 1420

The professor is extremely excited about the subject matter. Make sure to attend the class because he will add in random information that ends up on the tests and quizzes. He is helpful when you go to office hours and is really nice.

Would not recommend Ana.

Grisham merely reads off his PowerPoint slides, which are provided by the textbook company, during lecture. Although I attended lecture regularly, I know people who simply blew it off and still did better than I did grade-wise. Just read the textbook and do the problems, and you'll be set.

Grisham makes long, comprehensive powerpoint slides from which he directly lectures from. This makes you wonder if there is even any point to going to lecture if he is just going to stand there and repeat what is written in the book. His slides contain some problems, but he skips them during lecture and expects the students to figure out how to do them on their own time. This does not help at all if you are trying to do well in this class, as you will mostly get tested on problems, and a few random facts that Grisham likes to pull off of internet articles. It would be a much fairer class if more emphasis was put on going over problems during lecture instead of covering concepts that the students can easily read over outside of class.

Grisham is a great professor, I have him last semester and this semester for CHEM 141/142. Anyone who says he is bad is lying to you because the other chem professors will put you to sleep, however grisham keeps you entertained. He makes the course fun to learn. Although you have work to do in the class, it is just like any other class where work has to be done. His exams come straight from his lectures and the book so just pay attention in class and read your book and you will be fine. He has office hours and works out the problems you don't understand. So yea take Grisham for chem 141/142, because you ACTUALLY learn to appreciate the world of chemistry through the eyes of a college student.

Grisham is really enthusiastic about Chemistry! Although some of the mastering chemistry problems are difficult he and his T.A. are always happy to help explain how to do them. To sum things up, if you go to his office hours and go through a lot of practice problems from the book you should do fine in his class.

Grisham is a horrible professor. I had Gerrans for CHEM141 last semester and loved it. He taught me everything I needed to know for the quizzes and didn't rely on my extensive reading of the chapters. Now, I find myself having to teach myself with the book because Grisham skips over important material, such as practice problems, in lecture, and basically reads from his slides. His humor becomes annoying after 2 lectures and his Mastering Chemistry problem sets are designed to trick you rather than teach you. He puts "challenge problems" on each weeks Mastering Chemistry that are nearly impossible and the only way to complete them is to go to recitation and be told how to do them. Hopefully he will only teach this class on the occasion that Professor Gerrans is at semester at sea, but avoid at all costs otherwise!