I only took him because i had to. By far one of the worst professors i have ever had at Tulane. His test are insanely hard and he is very difficult to understand. Unless you have no life and nothing else to do but chemistry 7 hours a day, STAY AWAY from any class this man teaches!!!

Very easy class. Dr. Burin seems very intelligent but he is difficult to understand and doesn't explain things. He reads off his powerpoints and does problems on the board. He is a nice man and wants his students to get good grades and to come in for help. Everything was open book/open note. Learn the practice problems.

Great guy, funny, but not so great at teaching. Accent is pretty tough to understand. Go to his office hours and he'll work with you until you get it.

Though his tests are open-book, open-note, do NOT get complacent. He asks ridiculously hard questions that he has never taught in class. Plus, it's nearly impossible to decipher what he is saying. Take only if you have a thorough understanding of chemistry.

Quiz candidates are given prior to, though he may change some of the numbers. Tests were difficult and the final was madness. I don't know anyone that wasn't completely thrown off. Went in with about 98%, came out with a B. Beware quantum mechanics! His expertise, but he won't fill you in on the secret behind it all.

I took intro chem from him. His accent is a bit difficult to understand at times, and the powerpoints were not that great at all. Tests were open-book but still difficult. He holds tutoring sessions that are helpful.

Prof. Burin means well, and is certainly a great Chemist, but he is hopeless as a professor. His TA's (thankfully) tend to clear things up when exams roll around, preventing those without prior Chemistry knowledge from utterly failing. I give some credit to him for honestly trying.

Uggh, to this day, I entreat people to avoid gen chem insofar as Burin's associated with it. It's been said: Burin's a nice guy, but he has no business teaching a 100 level course. And he realizes it, compensating with the 'open book' clause with his tests.

Great guy, awful teacher

Review sessions were useless. He was not at all approachable in office hours. TA's give almost no partial credit. Sample problems do not the reflect test at all. The test averages might make it look easy, but with z-scoring most grades drop significantly. Open-book tests teach you to compile notes - I don't think I've learned anything.

Burin presents information without providing any explanations. There are no explanations as to why things happen. Read the book for clarifications. Tests are open note, but don't ever rely on your JUST your notes. That was the biggest mistake so many people made. First two tests are easy, last one madness. Final was ok

Got a C in Chem 1 with Burin, and an A in Chem 2. Do NOT take Burin. Lectures are useless; he doesn't even make his own tests or his final. He's a horrible teacher. He's primarily physicists, which explains his inaptitude for teaching anything other than quantum mechanics. Take anyone else.

Although he is a very good guy and means well, Dr. Burin is a bit hard to understand and even though his tests/quizzes are open note, they're pretty difficult. I learned most of the material through hours of studying the textbook rather than from his lectures.

Really nice guy, terrible teacher. Everything is open note which is nice but you don't learn anything. TA sessions are helpful, but not enough. Final average was around a 49%

Burin really wants you to do well. He's a nice person. The problem is, he can't teach. He's a quantum mechanics guy- he should really just be researching, NOT teaching freshmen chemistry. Half of his solutions are wrong, and I learned pretty much everything from the student instructor and tutoring center.

As stated before, Burin is a great person but a poor teacher. Chem was straight forward enough that I could teach myself from the textbook but the lectures and long and confusing.

Dr. Burin is a very nice and caring person. He's extremely knowledgable and knows what he's talking about, but I feel like he's too smart to be teaching general chem. He's not good at explaining concepts and I was lost the entire semester. The tests were also ridiculous.

Burin is a physcist who Tulane stuck teaching gen chem. He's very knowledgable about quantum mechanics, but doesn't always have a good grasp on other gen chem concepts. If you need to LEARN chem don't take his class. His curving is also not representative, and his tests are pretty confusing. He's not the worst, but avoid taking him if you can.

Quizzes/exams online with all-or-nothing grading - no chance for partial credit. Very nice man, but not such a great prof

he's a very nice guy but he makes the class so hard for no reason. i literally have no clue what's going on and I go to every class... would not recommend, find another professor.

He is literally the nicest guy on the planet, and is soo excited when students come to office hours because he genuinely cares and wants to have a good relationship with his students. Unfortunately, he is much more a physicist than a chem prof which makes entry level chem classes exceedingly difficult.

Look, the chem department is not great and he's no exception. He talks so slowly that you can barely stay awake and the work on the board is a mess. The quizzes are so different from the sample problems most of the time and he makes them more difficult than they need to be. Zoom recordings are helpful though because 2x speed.

Very very sweet guy, funny, but not the best at teaching lower level classes. All tests are open note and online, so it is easy but you do not learn anything. Often messes up in the lectures, but is a very understanding guy who honestly wants you to succeed.

Professor Burin is a really nice guy, and he cares about his lectures and students. However, he has a long way to go towards being an effective teacher. The only grades are the quizzes and final which are all at home and open everything. If you want to actually learn chemistry, probably take a different professor.

Assessments were online with no partial credit and a very small margin of error. You could get the answer almost exactly right and still fail. Very little grace. But he is a caring professor and provided extra credit when we asked.

Burin was okay, I had a good grade in his class until the final, which was very chapter 6/7 heavy. He did not follow the syllabus and was not very consistent. However, he is VERY accessible and is super kind and caring and wants you to do well. Though, you can tell he is meant to teach higher level courses, not gen chem 1.

Burin is a lovely guy and always answered his email. However, I didn't learn much from his lectures, I had to teach it all to myself. Open note quizzes but answers had such a small margin of error that you could get the answer right and still be marked wrong. If there is another option for 1070, take it.

He is nice and all but oh em gee he cannot teach. I feel like I didn't retain any information from his lectures.

Burin is a great person and very humorous in class. All quizzes and tests are online and open notes however they are still very difficult and I scraped by with a B. Did not set me up well for chem 2 because I did not learn anything from his class.