I learned nothing from this class. We are given grades on labs, quizzes, tests, and exams, of course. However, we are not given a key, so we have no clue what we got wrong. It is impossible to learn when we don't know what the mistakes we are making are. Genuine questions are ignored. Unclear as to what level or paradigm we should answer at

Labs are unclear with ambiguous wording and directions. This would be fine, but there are also "gotcha" type questions, resulting in inevitably not knowing if it is one of the frequent mistakes/errors or if the problem is meant to be worded how it is. The class material is easy, but attempting to figurer out what the labs actually want is difficult

Professor was inadequate at teaching and often sped through important concepts that often showed up on exams. Provided little resources for practice and additional learning. Without the education from general chemistry be prepared to fail the class or put in multiple extra hours of practice. New professor needed ASAP.

Professor Lutes releases every lecture for each unit bimonthly. The lectures, while not short, do not provide any information that is on the exams. Be prepared to do a lot of studying outside of the given resources, and still not doing great.

unhelpful

Was a chemistry major before this course, not anymore.

weekly monday lectures are useless. have to learn everything on your own. the labs are alright but the written procedure is tedious and it is difficult to get full credit on the lab reports. WAY too much work for a 2 credit course. also ridiculous that we have a midterm and final for a lab class actual content difficulty is alright

prof lutes is the absolute worst professor Ive ever had. she cant teach and she never explains things in a straightforward manner. I have never met another a person who says so much without saying anything. Shes a harsh grader who takes off random points for absolutely no reason. The lab directions are so tedious and convoluted.

For a 2 credit class the workload is outrageous and there are exams that have no purpose at all. The worst class ever.

a horrible teacher who can't teach. your grade is mostly made of labs so if you don't do well on the exams it's fine. ridiculous that we have two exams for a lab class but whatever. lectures are pointless so don't attend unless you want to waste your time. lab reports can be graded harshly and have random points taken off.

exams are pointless. huge workload but it's only a 2 credit course. i spend more time on this course than ALL of my other classes combined, which is saying a lot. this is only her second year teaching and you can DEFINITELY tell that she's inexperienced and incompetent.

horrible professor who doesn't deserve her place teaching at washu. the chemistry department here is notoriously good, so its bizarre how this pathetic excuse of a professor is teaching. chem lab is such an interesting topic so it's amazing how she is able to make this class so boring and pointless. remove this professor from teaching immediately

genuinely can't believe ppl rate her higher than a 1. any genuine questions are ignored, yet stupid questions like how to make mac and cheese are thoroughly explained. useless professor.

terrible professor. i learned nothing

Dr. Lutes is a great person who cares for her students and is quite frankly awesome! As someone who is intrigued greatly by chemistry, I came in with an open mind. But this class was taught in the worst possible way, which disappointed me to the point where even lab became misery. A great person, but this class has no structure or light to it.

Dr. Lutes is a genuinely nice and funny person, and she does care about her students. However, her lectures are very unhelpful, and it is completely pointless to even attend the problem solving sessions. Basically, you have to learn all the lab material yourself. She is the worst professor I had this semester.

Content itself isn't hard, but the instructors never answer Piazza and take off random points for no reason. You also don't get any feedback, making it difficult to actually improve. Lab lecture is totally useless and doesn't cover hard content. Student questions are ignored. WAY too much work for a two credit course. Prepare to teach yourself.

Students are given absolutely no help inside and outside of class. Professor Lutes is never available outside of class and during class, she rarely answers legitimate questions regarding the lab (even when there are an overwhelming amount of them). Monday lab lecture is the definition of useless and the Piazza is run by students rather instructor

The worse class I've probably ever taken in my life. There's absolutely no structure to the class and the 50 minutes feel like the biggest of waste of time I've ever experienced. You'll have to teach yourself the material because she won't.

Partial credit doesnt exist in this class. You can put so much effort into every question, yet the entire thing will be marked off it you make the tiniest mistake on something. Triple check everything to make sure you are correct or shell mark you off for everything. Incompetent professor,

Dr. Lutes is a super nice person so I hate to have to write a bad review on her, but this class is horrible. There is no teaching done in our lecture sessions - I've had to teach myself everything on my own and that has not gone well. There is absolutely no partial credit which sucks, and it also is horrible because this class is required for many

Actual lab is fine because you only work with your lab AI. Lutes runs lab lecture, which is the biggest waste of time EVER. Questions on the actual lab report are ignored, while stupid questions after her cats are explained thoroughly. Go to lab lecture for the first week and never go again. Don't expect any feedback on your report.

Lectures are more about memes than chem. Does not answer questions well. Exams are based on nit picky facts from labs. This should be a 3 credit lab for the amount of workload.

Monday lecture is completely useless. Lutes waste the lecture time not teaching and instead goofing around, and so the entire lab assignment is all self-taught from videos she post and the pre-lab reading. The pre-lab + lab + lab report all take about 6-7 hours total. Exams are okay but can be specific for no reason.

too much work for two credit class

Professor Lutes can be sweet and maybe funny. But her class is absolutely atrocious. The exam questions are so nitpicky and ask about the most random minute details that are worth SO many points. So many random points are docked off in prelabs and lab reports. Easily my hardest class, not at all bc of material, but bc of the way it's structured.

This class is extremely frustrating. While the material is much easier than Chem 112, somehow I found the grading much more strict and am overall miserable the whole semester. It's like the instructor's received feedback about 151 last semester and decided to use that input to make the class even worse. I spend so much time crying over 152.

Absolute worst professor and class at WashU. Grading is ridiculous, you'll lose too many points for minor mistakes. Labs aren't hard but need office hours to get good grades on some reports. Doesn't teach in lecture, waste of time.

Lutes lectures are essentially useless. All the learning done is done through her online videos and the lab manual. Chem152 is a bit harder. I found the exams to be a lot trickier than first semester. Go to OH to get good lab report grades and then just try to study hard for the exams. I want to stress that lutes 1 lecture is useless.

152 is everything bad about 151 but worse. Lecture is useless, and Piazza is never answered. Takes weeks to grade and gives 0 feedback. The inclusion of "unknowns" this semester makes the class harder and the grading harsher. Takes hours of work outside of class, and the report being due after ONE DAY is ridiculous. WAY too much work for 2 credits.

I've never experienced a bigger waste of time in my life than Lutes' lectures. Forget getting help with the one hard question on the lab. The most important topic is obviously one of her many, many cats. Piazza is never answered, deadlines are ridiculous, and feedback is never taken. If you can, spare yourself the migraine.

Lutes is a nice person, but a bad teacher. Her grading criteria for lec&lab is INSANE. Theres no help, the amount of work for lab is crazy. Prelab(due start of lab), electronic lab notebook(due end of lab), lab report (due ONE day after lab). This class sucks. You have to teach yourself. Be careful, these people are hoping for your failure.

pretty easy class but teacher does not really do anything. gotta do most things yourself

HORRIBLE. This woman does not know how to explain. She completely does not prepare you for the midterm. Midterm was hard and I'm currently at an A in 105. Go to the AI's for help instead of her. Her Monday lectures are completely disorganized and I never learned anything. She gets distracted way too easily and just talks about her cats.

Only go to her Monday lectures if you want to waste time.

Terrible lab experience. Lutes is just a miserable person. She scolded us...it would be better to teach us lab techniques and safety issues. I don't get how they let her teach at wustl.

Only teaches with recorded lectures. In person sessions are not helpful at all. Can't believe after all these years of teaching the same class it's still something like this.

THE WORST TEACHER. She puts a BOAT LOAD of info for the pre-lab readings online but for the exams does not pinpoint at all what you need to know-- essentially it could be anything. The class is ALL memorization and math. This woman cant explain anything for her life and her recitation is USELESS. When I heard she was seeking a promotion I HACKLED.

She doesn't make tests anything like the practice exams

The labs are hard to understand, grading for the labs is rough, and for the exams you need a certain score on the exams to get a grade. That means if you got perfect scores on all the labs but you did not get a 75% or 50% average on the exams, you would still get a C in the class. The exams are really hard and not like the practice tests.

The most pointless class I have taken. Literally learned nothing about chemistry and all this class did was drop my GPA. She is not very clear in articulating the topic of the lab and the exams were very hard compared to what was provided as practice and learned in class. Do not recommend taking if you don't have to.

Final exam in fall of 2022 was an absolute joke. You never really know how to study for these exams and it was made worse by the fact that the lab exam was nothing like the practice exam, contrary to what the instructors claimed prior. If you're taking Gen Chem 111, good luck. The lab work is completely unrelated to what you learn in Gen Chem.

Extremely awful. Does not know what she is doing, her lectures do not make any sense and do not correlate to the labs at all, just her talking about her cats. Exams are extremely difficult and practice exams do not align with exams given. Very rude and condescending. Awful professor do not take her class.

She clearly does not know what she is doing, the practice exams are nothing like the actual exams and lectures are completely useless. If you want a good grade, go for office hours for your prelab and leb reports and always answer the extra credit questions on midterms/exams even if you don't know the answer (just make sure to put something down).

The reports test on material she doesn't teach or give. Small mistakes on the report affect the grade greatly. In lecture, She spends most time talking about herself/cats. Exams test on info that students aren't told to review. Long response time; took 2 months. Extremely rude and petty at times. Makes you feel dumb when asking for help.

While the workload of this course is for the most part manageable and the chemistry content is fairly easy, the disorganization in this course makes it unbearable. Too often there were typos on lab assignments and exams, and concepts are not clearly or concisely explained. Also, there is no grace if you need to miss lab for any reason.

Lutes is the only available professor for this course. I attended lectures weekly, although optional, and they were useless. She does not teach the content she tests on, nor the content that is on the reports. Practice tests and the midterm/final vary in consistency and TA hours are the only helpful resource (Matt Autry in particular).

Dr. Lutes' lectures focus on problem solving, leaving us relying on videos, readings, and help sessions (not led by her) to finish labs. She berated us on lab safety for an entire mandatory lecture, saying she would fail all of us if she had to grade us that day, and proceeded to make 40% of the final's points over lab safety. Would not recommend.

Monday "lectures" are useless and lab reports are impossible to do without the mentor help sessions. Content must be learned on our own and never aligns with gen chem lecture. It doesn't feel like Lutes cares about teaching as much as talking about her cats/music taste and the fact that we have a midterm & final in a lab class is ridiculous.

Lectures were pointless in this class, they didn't really add anything to the lab material. Bryn tries really hard to be fun and relatable to the point that it's offputting. The canvas page is organized so that's a plus. Lab components are pretty toughly graded and it's easy to lose points.

I do not think that she is a bad person, but the class is structured very poorly and lecture time is poorly used when it could be used for content learning.

This class is required, but you won't enjoy it at all. It's incredibly disorganized and lab reports are impossible to do without attending office hours. Lab lectures are hit or miss -- either somewhat helpful or a complete waste of time. Matt Autry is my savior. He is the only reason I was able to do well in this class.

Shes is not a good teacher.

Dr. Lutes just doesn't care if we learn. Grading is all over the place. Exams are ridiculous, but she gives extra credit. Can't Mabbs or Daschback teach the lab? That would be incredible.

Literally dont go to lecture its pointless. Matt Autry will be your savior

Absolutely worst course ever taken. You have abosulte no clue what to do in the lab. Worst grading system ever seen, just meant to make you fail.

literally did nothing, Autry did all the work

Just watch the recordings.

Extremely mismanaged course; poorly organized and unnecessarily frustrating. Go to the lab report help sessions, and try to attend or watch the lab lecture if you need help on the pre-lab. It's almost unbelievable how a mandatory lab class is this excruciatingly terrible.

Abysmal Professor, horrible course outline. All of the poor reviews are accurate. She is treated badly by students, but the course structure is far too difficult and the labs are way too long. Autry is the only reason lab reports are possible and the exams were easy. Only reason I passed with an A+

The whole class especially the first three weeks are extremely unorganized. Also Lutes crashed out during the lecture and just left the room in the middle of the lecture. I don't think this is supposed to happened in a mandatory class and it's lecture.

As a student who wants to learn, I don understand why she doesn't have that kind of attitude to teach, and she never responds to email. Sometimes she made decision without deep consideration, and I don't think it is what a normal professor will behave. I want to be as respectful as possible so that's what I will say about her for now.

Extremely mean professor who gets ticked off for no reason at all. She will punish the class of 350 people if one person makes a mistake. Terrible way to run a large lab class.

I'll say this: my ADHD is bad but Dr. Lutes' is worse. She's disorganised and I found myself self-studying a lot (like for everything). I attend her lectures and they're... really bad. This class needs a new professor and a new way of teaching content. I'm trying to keep things nice here but his class is not enjoyable... gl yall.

Avoid Lutes, take Autry instead. Dr. Lutes does not teach the material clearly at all, never responds to emails, and is extremely unprofessional. She walked out mid-lecture after a few students out of 350 kept asking about the quiz. She said she would give us all zeros on it. The whole course is unorganized. Way too much work for a 2 credit class.

Has a dismissive Attitude, not helpful in person or in useless lecture. Still an easy class, but people definitely lose their interest in chemistry because of her. Don't go to class if you value your time, unless Autry is teaching.

Lutes puts very little effort into the class, not preparing an actual lecture each week and just relying on old course videos and lab manual readings that you have to do outside of lecture on your own time. The structure of the class is terrible and has little consistency week to week. Overall, tests are easy but everything is learned on your own.

When is the Quiz?

Unprofessional attitude. Doesn't even teach the class, literally...Autry does. Class is pretty easy to learn by yourself, but the structure of the course and the amount of workload for 2 credit lab is ridiculous. Professor get's irritated easily and questions aren't answered professionally nor accurately.

wow. 151 is peas compared to 152 where the lab reports are horrific. they give you wrong answers in office hours. you can instantly get 8 points off (out of 70) for one wrong answer. never got a grade i was happy with throughout all the lab reports. confusing material. nearly useless lectures where half of the time she doesn't even say anything...