The chem 101 lab at UNC is terribly organized. You show up to chem lab, do the experiment as best as you can with incompetent TA's that know the experiment at best on the same level as the student doing it for the first time. The pre and post labs make little to no sense in the directions. If you can skip Chem 101 lab at UNC DO IT!

you could understand everything in actual Chem 101 lecture and get to chem lab and understand nothing. 90% of the time you won't know what you're doing, the TA won't know what they're doing, and you'll fill out the postlab with complete nonsense and pray for a B. Its just a living nightmare, im sorry if you have to take chem lab at unc.

Chem 101 lab at UNC was a living nightmare. The pre- and post-lab assignments were ridiculously unclear, to the point that if you wanted a decent grade, you had to go to the TA office hours and ask them what they were looking for. Half the time, they didn't know either and had to email Dr. Grant. Spent about 8 hours per week on this one credit lab.

Such a terrible experience. My TA spoke quieter than the class fan, making instructions unintelligible. Prelab & postlabs take a ridiculous amount of work (6-8 hours/week) and ask questions not answered in textbooks. This class is disorganized either out of sheer ignorance or to make it a "weed out class". In comparison BIO101L was preschool.

Quite honestly the worst class I have taken so far. Your entire grade is dictated by pre-labs, post-labs and in-labs. These assignments are tedious easily taking up 8 hours per week and do not truly assess your knowledge. All of the labs are on coursehero but don't use them. They are inaccurate and Dr. Grant checks for plagiarism. Stay Away!!

I don't know what went on in this class, I don't even know my final grade yet, and I already took my final exam. I hate this class, nothing makes sense, the TA grades too harshly, and can never answer my questions. When the TA tries to answer my questions, it just leaves me confused. Quizzes are impractical for anyone who work all weekend.

Be prepared to spend 8 hours per week on this 1 credit hour class. Dr. Grant seems like a nice guy, but he recorded all of the lab videos (everything was online for Covid this semester) before the semester started and then went on vacation. He was inaccessible via email, so rampant ambiguity in assignment requirements was a constant.

I think TAs are the real instructor here compared to Dr. Grant. He has annoying BGM for the earlier video and no one can focus because of that. My grade is not bad, but It is not worthy compared to the time I spend every week.

Do not take this course at UNC take it through a state college. This class will eat your time. The pre-post lab assignments take over 8+ hours to complete. The TAs have not been shown what to do and are just as confused as you are. They on average are not helpful. You can do great in chem 101 and still fail the lab.

Definitely the worst class I've taken as a freshman. Your grade depends on whichever TA you get and how hard they grade as well as how helpful they are. Just pray you get a good one. Dr. grant doesn't do much and the videos are hard to watch as they're really blurry and he moves along fast. Pre-, in-, and post- labs take like 8-9 hours altogether.

LAB IS TERRIBLE. Prof Grant is a cool guy himself but the labs assigned have no solid instructions, forcing the students to bul-ls-hit their way through them. You work 10 hrs a week on pre/in/post lab assignments for the TA's to grade off of the most specific, unnecessary criteria. Truly terrible experience, especially from being all online

Dr. Grant needs a reality Check that his class is only 1 credit. It is graded somewhat unclearly by the TAs and there is no real content to be learned. The entire grade is a bunch of lab reports, around 1 a week. Then there is a final with random chemistry content on it. Labs should not have final exams.

This class is absolutely horrible. In the online format, the videos are useless. TA's are barely helpful. Dr. Grant doesn't do anything, because he's not involved in our learning. The assignments are hard & time consuming. If you're lucky, you might get a TA that grades leniently, but overall the assignments are graded so harshly. Do not recommend.

This class was the worst class I have ever taken, especially because the online format this year meant we didn't get to do the actual labs. The lab videos were unclear but we were expected to know exactly what was going on. Pre-lab and post-lab questions mostly required guessing so I learned absolutely nothing.

There's a prelab, in lab, and post lab due before your lab time which can take around 8-10 hours a week. Your grade is solely dependent on the TA who can either be super nice or harsh about grading. I highly recommend going to TA hours even if you're just slightly unsure about a question since the grading rubric is extremely disorganized.

As soon as my lab period ended, I dreaded starting the assignments and having to repeat a week later. CHEM 101L is supposed to teach you the fundamentals of labs but I can genuinely say I learned nothing besides the difference between precision and accuracy. Because of this truly terrible experience, I find myself anxious to take CHEM 102L :(

Dr. Grant doesn't teach anything, it's all done through the TAs and he made the lab videos to watch during class. The pre and post labs took me 8 hours a week to do because they were unnecessarily long and confusing. This class is a disorganized mess and the TAs are just as lost as you are. Good luck kiddos, you're gonna need it.

At this point you've read all the other reviews and are freaking out because you have to take this class and there's no way around it. Pls take this advice (COVID online lab edition) -Start postlab AT LEAST 3 -4 days before it's actually due. -watch the lab videos and take notes BEFORE class -learn excel before starting the class- just trust me

I know the lab is supposed to be hard, but this was downright miserable. The online class ended up being around 9 hours of HW every week for a course that is only 1 credit hour. The videos were hard to see, so most of the long 2.5 hr class was spent debating what the data results were and stressing about tough grades rather than learning.

Youre screwed mate. START POST LABS EARLY. YOU WONT FINISH IN A DAY. dont lie to yourself. If you really buckle down and get all the work done youll probably do fine. Its just so much work for so little credit it hardly feels worth it. If you are struggling with pandemic burnout this class will kill you

Dr. Grant literally does nothing. He made the hard-to-see videos in Fall 2020 and has done nothing since. There is no teaching in the class and you are expected to figure out how to do everything on your own. How much work is required for a 1 credit-hour course is ridiculous. All the work just feels like busy work and you learn nothing.

Dr Grant does nothing... the TA's do everything. All Grant does are the videos which are super low quality and not helpful whatsoever. The final in this class is ridiculous and nothing we learned in class.

Just dont to be honest I lost a lot of respect for UNC after taking this class. No university of this caliber should have such an outdated and impossible intro class like this worth 1 credit hour. Shame.

Horrible. Do not take chem lab unless you have to. Lab reports take 10+ hours a week and if you have a bad TA, it will be very hard to do well. Way too hard for an entry level class. The videos Professor Grant made were hard to follow and very bad quality. If you are enrolled in chem lab... good luck, you'll need it!!

He does not teach anything. He only uses TA's that dont know what they are doing. You are left by yourself in a ditch to figure this out. Each TA tells you something different, so you dont know what you are doing. Anyways dont take this class

rating:0 You are not taught by the actual professor, you're taught by the teacher assistant typically they are quite lost themselves. You are left to figure everything out yourself even during the lab. This is very time consuming and not time efficient, I have had to go to 7 TA's just for one post lab, i will never take this course again. good luck

The angels of heaven will surely give up their wings for Calvin Grant's ridiculous 15-page lab reports (pre,in,post lab)each week that requires 10 hours while he is madly in love with his favorite software MS excel.

Honestly the worst professor. You know it's bad when you can count on one hand the number of times that you've actually seen him during the class period. Entirely taught by TAs and they are not always the most competent. They want to be there about as much as we do. Lots of work to complete assignments and the quizzes are over info we never learn.

For a 1 credit hour class, this class has more homework than a 3hour class. The grading criteria is pretty much non-existent and the TAs are always confused. Not recommended.

In emails he sounds like the nicest person ever, but you really only interact with him once or twice throughout the entire semester. The length of the lab assignments are horrendous making the time commitment for this class sometimes unmanageable (and it's only 1 credit...). The grading is too harsh, and the final exam questions are so random.

I would have had an A if this class if it weren't for the final. The pre and post labs are manageable if you space them out accordingly, but the lab quizzes and lab final have ridiculous questions that we are never taught how to do and just expected to know. There was a slight curve on it but nothing actually helpful. The grading depends on your TA

The weekly quizzes were pointless and the assignments were unnecessarily difficult. The labs did not match up with the lecture and it really depended on how your TA was grading your assignments. I hated the class and it took way longer to complete assignments than proposed. Would not recommend at all.

If you have to take this, make sure you are prepared. If you don't have to take this, run, run for the hills.

There is ZERO nice thing I can say about this class, the worst waste of my time by far. The only reason I got an A is because my TA was an Absolute saint! Pray that you will get a good TA. Pray that Calvin Grant retire soon

AWFUL experience in chem lab. He messed up my section's final exam and could not tell us how he would fix it until a week later. His instructions are not very specific and he sends out reminders RIGHT before Monday labs, so if you have a Monday lab, beware. Other than that, the experience is all based on how good your TA is.

Please don't take CHEM 101L if you don't have to. Dr. Grant is a horrible professor who has no interest in doing his job, and doesn't make things easier for his overworked TAs. The instructions on everything are ambiguous, and the only reason I did well is because my TA was a very lenient grader, so pray you get the same thing.

From the one time I saw him, Dr. Grant was actually a pretty funny guy. However, the whole lab being led by the TAs means that it can be very hit or miss. Lab content is vaguely related to lecture, and the lab manual is super wordy and hard to understand. The only reason I did ok was because my TA was incredible shoutout Kim Taylor!

It's an insanely difficult class. It was so bad that it made me switch majors. As everyone else is saying, pray that you get a good TA, because that's what your experience in the class mainly depends on. My TA was, unfortunately, extremely irresponsible and a strict grader.

Dr. Grant is a great person but his Summer lecture was terrible. Taking Chemistry over a summer session is already difficult, but it was made worse by his teaching practices. We would often not be able to finish going over material by the end of each class and exams would be too long to finish in time. Lecture and recitation was very disorganized.

I had a great TA, however Calvin Grant is the one who provides the assignments which are terrible. They make absolutely no sense and are generally more complicated than what you learn at the 101 level. He also is hard to communicate with and doesn't seem to care about the students. This lab really depends on how merciful your TA is.

This class is solely based on your TA since they grade you. My TA graded really harshly at the beginning and then he found out other TAs were just giving out free 100s and started grading easier. Experiments are boring, post-labs don't make sense and you're never taught how to properly complete one, and the pre-labs are simply just wrong sometimes.

I have never seen nor spoken to Dr. Grant, and the one email I sent him went unanswered. The class is taught exclusively by TAs, most of whom are just as confused as the students about his confusing, contradictory, and unacceptably verbose curriculum and policies. The workload is manageable, but very excessive. I expected far more from Duke.

Grant gives a significant amount of work that far exceeds the amount necessary for an intro chemistry class. Extremely inflexible about deadlines and quite passive aggressive over emails. Come into his lab expecting to put hours into trying to understand his vague instructions and deadlines.

Sets absurd deadlines for pre-labs on the asynch weeks by making them due same time as lab report from previous week when we should have a week till next in-person lab to do pre-labs. CHECK DEADLINES ALWAYS! Labs led and graded by TAs overall TAs are great and have office hours to help. labflow questions set by Calvin and even TAs get confused

Calvin Grant is TERRIBLE!! Dr. Grant does NOT respond to emails, is passive aggressive, and makes the grade that is supposed to help you, a hardship. He is the hardest person to work with and I would never recommend to anyone. He does not care about his students. DO NOT TAKE!!!!

Gosh. DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING WITH CALVIN GRANT!! He expects so much for his lab that he himself does not grade. The TA's grade and conduct the labs. Dr. Grant does not respond to emails, nor does he help. His due dates for assignments are NOT set out and if you miss something, oh well. It is so absurd and unnecessary. The lab grade is supposed to hel

I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND DR.GRANT TO ANYONE!! NOT EVEN MY WORST NEMESIS. He is the worst professor I have ever encountered. He is not considerate let alone caring for his students. The TAs do all the work and your grade basically lies in their hands. Dr. Grant does not respond to emails and is so inconsiderate.

Pros: - Class once a week (it is a lab) - Pre-lab quizzes could be retaken an infinite amount of times - My TA was an absolute legend... shoutout Rebecca Powers :) Cons: - Grading is overly harsh - Post labs would take hours to days to complete - TAs were the only caring people in the dept - Final was unfair - Most tedious 1 credit course ever

You will never see Calvin Grant. Grading is based strictly on how nice your TA is. The labs are bi-weekly, take 3 hrs, and about 8-12 hrs outside of class to finish the lab report.

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Be happy the ta's run everything. If I had to see him for lab every other week, it would dampen my whole week. Just wait and you'll understand since he is the only 101L prof. He is rather rude. Lab: theres a lot of discrepancies in grading and I got random points off on things other people got full credit for. It is pretty work heavy.