She is so awful. Please avoid her at all costs. She does not proofread, so her emails are very confusing. She seems like a very unhappy person and she likes to take it out on her students.

She is extremely condescending, and is practically no help in the class. Her office hours are very rare (she only has two hours a week and is not very flexible with appointments) and no help at all even if you can make it there. Her tests are much harder than they should be. Do yourself a favor and just don't take the class.

Norton definitely made the first semester of my collegiate experience a frustrating one. Her quizzes are seriously difficult. I had a high A+ average on all of my lab reports, but the quizzes and lab practical brought me down to a B+ (An 89.9, mind you; she doesn't round at all). I have never met a person more condescending.

Awful. That's all that needs to be said. Although here's a nice tid bit for all of you that think she's rude and condescending. I've heard from more than one grad student in the department that she goes around talking about how all of us here in Athens are dumb country kids, not like the smart students at Emory. Do us all a favor and go back there!

Norton seemed like she doesn't care about anything but herself. Very sarcastic and rude. Emailed her multiple times in my time of need, only to get an acerbic reply weeks later. The class itself is very doable, Norton is just an obstacle to overcome

I am astounded that this lady is a UGA employee. It is so clear that she cares nothing about helping students. When I went to her office hours, she was snarky to every student including me. I don't care if she is the greatest chemist in the world, she is not a good person and certainly not educator material.

She comes across as a very snarky woman. She refuses to curve any quiz grades even if the majority of students failed because people would be "curved down." The quizzes hardly deal with the lab material half the time and differ each time from questions about procedure or complicated math that can hardly be finished in the 20 minutes allotted.

She's extremely vague, unhelpful, and super passive aggressive in all her emails and instructions. The lab practical at the end has some overly specific things that you need your lab notebook for but aren't allowed to use. There's no way around her if you take Chem, and you will survive, but she's awful. Even Honors has her for 1st S.

Dr. Norton is the absolute worst and there is no way to avoid her if you're taking Gen Chem. Her published lab notebook is full of typos and errors and she expects you to know things that aren't in there. Her quizzes are stupid and if you try to go to her office hours she just argues with you. Her emails are rude and she's not helpful. Evil.

She is all around a bad person and terrible teacher.

I can't believe she's still "teaching" gen chem lab. For the practical, she mentions that it should be on stuff related to lab techniques. You shouldn't have to study the lab notebook for it, but she asks for specific details from the lab notebook (which you are not allowed to use during the practical.) Overall, bad teacher. Is not willing to help.

Why am I paying for this

I had a 4.0 before this lab. I made an A in actual gen chem but not in lab. The practical and notebook quiz are impossible, and she absolutely does not care about the students whatsoever. The practical and quizzes are graded ridiculously hard and are not representative of your grades on the actual labs. The worst "teacher" that I have ever had

Worst instructor on the planet.

I worked hard and made an A on EVERY LAB this semester, 100s on all the online quizzes. She made the lab practical and notebook quiz incredibly difficult and dropped me to a B. She likes to see students fail and is extremely rude if you talk to her in person.

Honestly I've lost a tremendous amount of respect for UGA for letting this woman treat her students the way she has. Lab goes way ahead of lecture so you are just confused half of the time and they are full of mistakes, poorly designed lab practical and notebook quiz, and all around a rude human being. The worst academic "professional" ever.

Worst "professor" I've ever had. I've never seen her in person. Super aggressive in emails. She makes exams and quizzes difficult, oftentimes dropping people letter grades even after getting As on all lab reports. Accused over 100 students of cheating on a lab final with no evidence. Never take her class, but if it's required, well.. I'm sorry.

Avoid taking classes with Daphne Norton. She makes assignments way more difficult than they should be and grades unfairly. She wrongfully accused hundreds of students for cheating. She might be delusional.

Dr. Norton hates students, and you get the feeling that she really wants you to fail. Her practicals and notebook quizzes are impossible, her book is full of typos, and she falsely accused tons of students of cheating. Avoid her at all costs. She has made my time at UGA miserable and makes me want to transfer. She is the worst prof at UGA, FIRE HER

Terribly hard quizzes and impossible lab finals. She is uncooperative and unprofessional. Please find another way to gain your lab credit.

Somehow manages to ruin students lives without even meeting them

Not at all helpful.

She is utterly unreasonable.

Daphne Norton is by far the most unfair and ridiculous professor at the university. I had her for only one class and in order to never deal with her again I changed majors, since she runs the entirety of the freshmen chemistry department. She will dock points off your grade if she feels your TA is too nice, or just because she is having a bad day.

She falsely accused accused so many students of cheating. I know many of them and they most certainly didn't cheat. She basically gives the option to "admit" you cheated, or get stuff put on your record. Her class is like the Inquisition.

I had this class last year, and she really had no concern for student welfare. Grade-wise, she was very strict and her labs were always unclear and poorly worded. One time, there was a gas smell that the TA couldn't figure out where it was coming from, and only after he assured her he really couldn't find the source, did she dismiss the class.

She is terrible

She is very rude, and her final for chem lab is irrational. I worked hard to make sure I had an A in this class, but the final dropped me to a B. The lab notebook she made has so many numerical, grammatical, and spelling errors. If you're going to publish something, please double-check it instead of making yourself and the school look like....:(

I have never met this woman, but her class is the absolute worst. She accused hundreds of students of cheating even though she had no evidence for most of those accused. The worst part about this class is the notebook quiz. It's unnecessarily detailed and does not in any way reflect any actual knowledge learned in the course.

worst professor you ever can get. She don't care about her students at all. Try to avoid her as much as you can.

The worst academic "professional" I have ever encountered.

Its honestly embarrassing that UGA has not fired Daphne Norton by now. She falsely accused 100s of students of cheating with no evidence. She has absolutely no regard for the welfare of her students and actually wants them to fail. She's incredible rude and aggressive. Also you have to buy the lab manual that she wrote (plagiarized) and its wrong.

Extremely rude and aggressive. She has called me out on the spot multiple times in front of 200+ other students for stupid stuff like not paying attention or talking (in my defense, it was about chemistry), which shouldn't matter because I have an A in her class. There are lots of BS assignments and the tests are NOT multiple choice!

Give up on making an A. Lab was harder than lecture. I missed one quiz (it was only open from Friday night to Sunday night) because I was in Tennessee; now I hope to make a B in lab, depending on my Lab Practical grade (which was very difficult and had no study guide or anything to use for preparation).

She was extremely rude when I spoke to her. She wouldn't respond to my emails, doesn't share her office hours, and told me she didn't have time to answer my question when I went to her office. Extremely inflexible and refused to work with me at all - ended up costing me my 4.0. The class itself isn't bad if you try, but avoid her at all costs!!

Daphne is the lab coordinator. She absolutely sucks. She copies her lab manual from online and you can find numerous errors in all of them. She is an idiot who does not take student cooperation lightly.

If I could give a grade lower than zero, I would. On top of her copied and pasted lab notebook (written by her that you have to buy from the bookstore), she also taught a lecture this year. The fact that her rating on any standard is awful and she got a new class is sickening to me. 0/10 would not recommend and would not take again.

Dr. Norton will make sure that all the TAs under her make it as difficult as possible for you to do well in lab. I heard that she told the TAs to take off 10 points from labs that miss one unit (I missed only one "g" for grams and got 10 points taken off my lab). In my opinion, she does not care about the academic success of the students.

If I could only say one thing about Dr. Norton it would be that any student is better off teaching themselves chemistry than taking her class. She is insane, does not care for her students at all, grades ridiculously hard in lab, and makes the exams nearly impossible to pass. I had to go to tutoring every day just to make a C. DO NOT take her.

She is an utter nightmare. She takes her personal problems out on her students. I will say this and only this to define Norton: she is a sad woman who has nothing better to do than make students lives hell to make her miserable self feel content. That is all.

I had a 98% average on the labs and the quizzes and lab practical brought my grade down to an 87%. The quizzes are extremely specific; you only get 20 minutes to answer 10-12 questions. The lab practical was hard and didn't test knowledge on the labs done in class. You never see her unless you got to her office hours. DO NOT TAKE UNLESS YOU HAVE TO

Where to begin. I am usually a straight A student, but this class was utterly horrible. Dr. Norton doesn't know how to teach: goes quickly through lecture slides, only does problems. Tests are extremely difficult and are almost impossible to prepare for. Her labs are confusing and full of errors. Hard content isn't made better by horrible teaching.

Terrible. Made me hate chemistry

I did not take AP chem in high school so i knew it was going to be very hard but all my friends who took AP chem were making just as bad of grades that I was and it felt like no matter what i did nothing helped. I had emailed her multiple times and she either responded right away or never. DO NOT TAKE!!

Look, Lab sucks its a fact but we all have to go through Norton. My advice is just read all the labs and practice the math before the quizzes and ask your TA all the questions you can in class. Try to build as much as a buffer as you can for the practical

Man this class was a load of barnacles on the real

Not only is Dr. Norton unfriendly, unwelcoming, and just plain rude, but she also makes me hate my Chemistry labs. She has never been helpful with any questions and has always made me feel as if I'm inconveniencing her with any questions I have.

Absolutely terrible. You have to take lab with her no matter what. She doesn't care and the quizzes are basically impossible

lol. this lab class is so much of a pain. EVERYONE hates Daphne, like all of the TA's too. My TA was great in class, but he graded really tough, for chem lab, its just the luck of the draw with your TA. the practical was pretty hard.

Her grading scale makes it seems like she doesn't want you to do well. 5-10 points are deducted for minute errors, so be careful. The quizzes are extremely difficult, there are some questions that don't relate to what was actually done on the experiment, and you're not allowed to see what you missed. The practical wasn't bad, just study it'll be ok

Not that you get a choice for your CHEM1211L, but just beware of her. Her communication with the lab TAs are not very good and there are some mistakes in the lab notebook they force us to buy. In addition, beware of her 4 random quizzes on ELC throughout the semester. They're harder than the lab questions. Also, she is very rude over email.

This class depends completely on your TA for you lab grades but Norton is the one that makes the quizzes and practical. Quizzes are all timed and hard to finish on time while getting the right answers because you can't go back to a question. Got 100 on all my labs and still got a B solely because of her quizzes. Wouldn't take again but I have to.

Ths worst lab ever. No labs should be this difficult. I got high As on every single lab report and did well on the quizzes yet I failed the lab practical because she makes it way harder than it needs to be. The practical included topics we hadnt discussed and it was only 12 Qs. The TAs dont care at all either. They dont try to help

There is very little leniency given when labs are graded. The lab quizzes are impossible and ask questions that are well above the level of comprehension that should be expected of students. Dr. Norton is rude and not available or willing to help. You can't really avoid this lab, so best of luck. I now understand why people dislike UGA Chem dept.

You will probably never see Daphne at all. The TA is the one who supervises labs and grades them. The quizzes are nearly impossible, and the practical was really hard. You need to memorize specific information from past labs. The labs had nothing to do with what we learned during class. She also almost never answers her emails.

you never see her-you see your TA and ur TA is who grades your stuff. Some TAs are really hard graders while some are little bit more lenient. The quizzes though are made by Norton and the TAs do not grade them. The quizzes are incredibly hard and they bring your grade down by a lot. The practical is alright though if you study.

Daphne Norton is in charge of the Chemistry Department and is responsible for making all of our quizzes and lab practicals. She is the worst Chemistry head. She makes our lab quizzes ridiculously hard and does not allow us to review the quizzes and see where we went wrong. She makes the practical virtually impossible, everyone in my class failed.

I had an average lab report grade of 98% and I finished with a B in the class. My TA was amazing but the quiz and practice is impossible. I understood the labs and put in the work, yet still failed almost all the quizzes along with my classmates. I talked to Norton and she gave me about 45 seconds and offered no help. Avoid her if you can.

The lab really depends on your TA and whether or he/she is an easy grader. The quizzes weren't too terrible if you understood the labs. The lab practical was nearly impossible and hard for no reason though and the reason why I didn't end the lab with an A.

I had a good TA luckily, but I got locked out of an online quiz and got a 0 on it dropping my grade from an A to a B-. She did not care at all :(

Lab is so messed up

Daphne is absolutely terrible when it comes to lab courses. I had a higher grade in 1311H than I did in 1311L. She purposefully makes the lab quizzes impossible because she probably enjoys the sight of students failing. The lab quizzes often have questions you may have never seen in lab so there is nothing you can do. AWFUL

Looking at the curriculum, chem lab is not hard at all. Daphne makes it hard, however. With no instant gratification on the quizzes and absolutely no curving of grades whatsoever, she makes this one credit course extremely unbearable. If I could take the lecture course without lab, I would do it in a heartbeat. Go Dawgs!

This lab is so disorganized. The material does not align with what we learn in lecture and you grade is truly based on your TA. Daphne makes the quizzes very hard and makes them 20% of your final grade.

The only reason I got an A in this course was because of COVID-19 & we did not have to take a practical. It is almost impossible to get an A in gen chem lab (it can happen tho) because of either the practical or those quizzes. Those quizzes are beastly esp the second and third ones. Make sure u review hard and show up to lab. Also I had a great TA

Lab itself really isn't so bad. The worst part are the online quizzes we take. Dr. Norton makes them and they often cover experiments we haven't done or material we haven't learned yet. Truly awful and you can't even see what you missed unless you go to office hours with her. She's your only option for Chem labs though, so just prepare yourself now

What even happened. She ruined my first year at UGA by just exsisting. Thanks to Covid-19 I even had a chance to pass my second Gen Chem Lab with a shred of dignity. Soo yeah I have PTSD from chem labs and Im very thankful I will never need to take another Chem Lab again...

Your 1311L experience completely depends on your TA. Nonetheless, it's pretty clear how little thought was put into designing this course by Dr. Norton. The lab notebook is riddled with mistakes and unclear instructions/questions. Furthermore, the 5-question online quizzes worth 20% of your grade for this class are horrific to say the least.

Spiteful woman. First person I gad contact with in the chem department which affected my opinion from the start. Told me directly that I was incompetent in my "ability to read and analyze information," because i asked for clarification about a discreption between scheduling on athena and what she mentioned in an email. Imagine being that hateful.

I love chemistry and do well in chemistry. Dr. Norton makes it a living hell. The reports are easy but the quizzes are impossible. I asked if I could go over my quizzes with her. She sent me an email giving me a time frame to meet with her, but the email was sent 10 minutes after that time frame had already ended... She is rude and awful.

You never see her. But she designs the quizzes. You get six quizzes, five of which are graded. The quizzes consist of five questions each and are designed to trick you. Very hard to do well on them. The ta's determine how in person lab is for you. I got a harsh ta who took off a lot for minor things (sig figs). Highly do not recommend. Gpa killer

This class is a joke. I have never taken a harder lab before. Never saw Dr. Norton, and your entire grade depends on your TA to be honest. I had a terrible TA and it really hurt my grade. The online lab quizzes (5 of them) are literally ridiculous. This class literally killed my GPA and I truly hope that the make some changes to the chem department

Dr. Norton was a terrible professor. I was only lucky to have a B because I had great TAs. Her quizzes were impossible to pass and included stuff that we didn't learn about. She also never responds to emails and you will never see her. Since she is the only one in charge of Fresh Chem I Lab you just have to be lucky to have great TAs. Good luck!

Lab quizzes are unnecessarily hard. They cram lots of information that is barely related to the lab in a 15 minute quiz. Very strict lab grading, do not recommend.

Multiple times Ive corrected her after class and 200+ students leave the classroom with the wrong information. The only reason this class will benefit you will be so that you become self-reliant for other classes in the future.

The labs are manageable as long as you put effort in. However, the lab quizzes are impossible. I have gotten A's on all my labs but will not finish with an A because of the quizzes, which many people fail. They are not related to the labs and ask impossible questions, and she is never willing to go back over them or try to help the students.

I've come here as many UGA students do every semester to hate on this teacher. She never emails back on time. You will never see her in person and the only contact is through elc. If you have a good TA you'll do amazing but if not it's not easy to do well.

While my TA, Garrett Floyd, was amazing, I cant say the same for Dr. Norton. She was very unhelpful and condescending to her students. My main problem with her was that she would never take our concerns seriously. I emailed her about an issue regarding one of our experiments that if fixed would make me get an A, and she couldnt care less! Awful!

This lady literally does nothing. All of her remarks come off as rude, and she is no help, so dont even bother. Pray that you get a good TA! Mine was Shivani Nagode, and she was amazing! If you do poorly on 2 of the lab quizzes, you can definitely still make an A by doing great in the labs.

The lab is not synchronized with the lecture at all. Quizzes are unnecessarily difficult, and they have questions about things we never covered in class. Very bad and unorganized overall.

I despise this woman. She gets to write all of the lab quizzes even though she is never in the lab and doesn't do anything. The quizzes are extremely difficult and do not go with what happens in the actual lab at all. She also responds to emails passively aggressively and does not seem to actually want students to well/ improve.

This prof sucks so bad, I went back in time to tell my momma to get an abortion so that I would not have to take in 19 years. Showing up to these labs was the epitome of my suffering this semester. Labs are written very poorly. This department puts in no effort. I hope Daphne stumps her toe.

very mean :(

All depends on your TA. I had an absolute G for a TA. Never saw Norton, emailed her once when I missed a lab quiz because I was in the hospital from a car accident. She never responded

I had a solid A the entire semester until the lab practical which completely ruined my grade. They are so picky and make it unnecessarily hard. Also get ready for the quizzes because I missed one question on the pre-lab safety quiz which started me out with a B-. If you don't know every step of each lab procedure front to back then you have no hope

In 2 years of college and all of high school, I never received an A-. I got an A- in this class. The grading is unfair. Regardless of your preparedness or understanding of the material, you will get points unfairly deducted.

2nd post. Lab quizzes harder than they needed to be. Post lab questions are vague. I got random points off bc I didn't explain my answer (it wouldn't say to explain in some questions but would in others). Pray that you get a nice TA bc mine almost cost me my grade by being a tough grader. Tbh worst part about the class is the inconsistency with TAs

If you have to take chem lab, you have quite literally no other option. All you can do is pray for an understanding TA and you'll be fine. Good luck!

Pray you get a good TA (you don't get to pick them). She is ruthless when it comes to grading!!! Pay attention to elc to ensure you don't miss a lab quiz. The practical was ok content wise but when it came to grading GOOD LUCK.

There's nothing you can do about it. It is what it is. Good luck charlie.

Dr. Norton is the epitome of why the chemistry department is absolutely terrible. There are gems in the department, but she certainly is a large part of why the chemistry department gets a terrible reputation. She has no empathy or respect for her students; the only reason this class isn't rated worse is because the TAs are able to help out.

The grading system was so annoying. There was little communication between her and the TA and when we would have questions about vague things we would just have to guess. I would recommend getting a good lab partner.

Was not helpful to students at all. Did not allow students to make up quizzes when the lockdown browser malfunctions even if they have proof. Unhelpful and rude!

Most reviews aren't about her, but this one is. I emailed her because I had an issue with a quiz. I told her what was wrong and offered to do everything to fix it. She basically blamed me and didn't help. She's not a good person at all & she doesn't want to help/work with students.. She's hardly involved with us, and when she is she sucks so much.

THE WORST. so easy to do terribly on literally everything. practical was impossible to pass and TA's grade very harshly. you really don't have a choice so GOOD LUCK

Dr. Norton is absolutely awful. I emailed her about an issue with my quiz and she basically ignored me and would not answer me. When she finally did answer me, she was very short and did not even answer my question. Additionally, the syllabus is terrible and doesn't include important information (her name, email, office hours, grading scale) -50/10

You never get feedback on what you have done wrong on a quiz so you can't improve. For 1212L in particular, there were MANY times when the lab did not align with what we were doing/we had not even covered the content yet. The manual does not give clear instructions and there's no grading consistency with her TAs. Poor class design overall.

Truly awful. She literally does nothing, and when she does she's so rude. I reached out to her a few times and every time she gave me sass and didn't consider any solutions. Pray you get a good TA because Norton will do absolutely nothing but throw sass your way.

I am in CHEM 1211+L right now. I have made all As on my exams in lecture, but get Cs on the lab quizzes. If quiz glitches and your answers don't save, she blames you and doesn't fix the 0

Labs are entirely run by the TA, and the quizzes and practicals are challenging and can easily drop your grade. Getting one thing wrong on your lab could drop you from 6-10 points on the lab.

Similar to the rest of the Chem department, she truly does not care about your learning your grade. I spoke several TAs who claim to have been pulled into her office for not meeting her grading standards. The labs are not that bad, especially if you get a good TA but the final exam is almost impossible. It seems easy but less than 20% pass.

THE ABSOLUTE WORST PROF I'VE EVER MET. She was extremely rude and employs TAs that do not speak English. Dr. Norton was unreachable and so condescending. If you need to reach out to her - DON'T. She is no help and takes pleasure in seeing students upset. If I could, I would rate her a 0/5.

Literally don't know how this woman still runs the lab here. Labs never line up with what we're doing in class and she almost never responds to emails. If you email her, she immediately points you towards your TA and she regularly chews her TA's out. I've seen her do it.

Dr. Norton does not care at all about students. When my submission went wrong due to an error in elc she refused to accept it and blamed me for not submitting it (I did). She was exceedingly rude throughout the exchange. I even showed her exactly what I submitted she refused to allow a regrade. Her labs do not line up with lectures either.

The chem 1211 labs at UGA are a MESS. The TAs grade so subjectively it's insane. Its kind of a lottery with who you get cause you don't get to choose. Me and my lab partner would put the exact same things and get alternating different grades every time. The lab practical is way more difficult than it should be. Does not help with the actual class.

how is she still working?

While I had a TA for my lab, Daphne certainly made the course much harder than it was supposed to be. 4 quizzes that we couldnt see grades for, inconsistent lab grading, etc. My TA was amazing, but as the lab coordinator, you're half at the mercy of Daphne. Overall the lab was interesting and as long as you kept up with your reports, you'd be fine.

To put it simply, Norton sucks. The labs are run by TAs who are harsh graders and don't speak English well. I got C's on some lab reports because of sig figs... She is strict and insolent, but at least you don't interact with her much.

Rude point-of-contact. Doesn't respond to e-mails, unaccessible really, and extremely unsupportive of student concerns and situations. Try to talk to your TA as much as you can because that will probably be the only communication you'll receive.

Takes days to respond to email, makes lab quizzes impossible (without ever showing you what you did wrong), and does not care about students at all. Good luck.

If there was a competition on who can make labs the most difficult, inconvenient, and stressful, Dr. Norton would take the cake

me entering the worst chem lab department head competition but my opponent is dr. norton

The labs themselves aren't that bad simple mistake could cost you a letter grade and Daphne does not care at all and will not help you come up with other possible solutions.

NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE. You have to take a chem lab ran by Daphne Norton, and theres no other options. You are really just screwed, these labs are SO tedious. If you put in the work though, you will most likely do fine.

Literally never met this person and somehow my blood boils every time she is mentioned. Worst grading system ever and we are forced to take her labs no matter what. FIRE HER PLEASE!!!!

The lab quizzes were AWFUL and you could never see what you missed, and your grade pretty much is fully dependent on how lenient of a grader your TA is. The practical did not at all reflect what we learned, and there is literally no other gen chem lab professor so good luck.

Horrible quizzes; the practical was nowhere close to the material we were taught. Just pray for a good TA because your grade is basically just a lottery of getting a good one.

If you ever need to email her good luck because she'll never respond to you.

you will never meet norton, however, her quizzes are weird. the lab practical was dumb. HOPE YOU GET A GOOD TA BC YOUR GRADE WILL DEPEND ON IT!! and make sure you go to lab lol.

shes the only chem lab prof but your time in class depends on your TA. My TA was awesome so i got a good grade, but daphne is literally despised by everyone taking chem. she doesnt let you see what you get wrong on the hardddd lab quizzes or the practical, and will shut you down if you try to send any email to her. PRAY YOU GET A GOOD TA!!!

Norton does not make things easy. The assignments are far more difficult than they need to be, especially quizzes and the final lab practical. All you can really do is hope that you get a good TA.

You never actually see Daphne. Your lab experience is purely based on luck. You will either get an amazing TA or a foreign one that barely speaks English. The quizzes are unnecessarily difficult and can tank your grade if you aren't careful.

Unfortunately, this is the only option for the lab. I was fortunate to have a great TA, but the quizzes and practical tend to be confusing. The content itself isn't hard, but there is no clear instruction on what to expect and absolutely no resources to prepare for these assessments. The practical study guide was just "Review Everything."

bro its actually ridiculous

In this class, you are very rarely, if ever, going to interact with Professor Norton. It really just comes down to who your TA is, which is more or less luck of the draw. Some of them are much more nit-picky about errors or flaws on report sheets than others, and that can really make or break your grade. Also, be very careful on quizzes!

Awful! Do not miss anything! Miss a quiz? Out sick? Forget to wear pants to lab? 0. She doesn't care about you actually wanting to participate in learning when life happens. You'll never meet her. She'll never answer an email. Nobody knows what she actually does? Doesn't teach, doesn't grade, doesn't interact with students. Hope for a good TA!

If I could give you a 0 I would.

Overall, this class sucked. The quizzes are created to trick you and unless you get lucky with a nice TA, they will grade you harshly and unfairly. Good luck and pray for a nice TA.

absolutely not.

Your lab grade is based on your TA. But all the quizzes are made by her and it is so much difficult than the practical. You would never see her and would only interact with your TA. Overall, be careful of quizzes and study for the practical.

Your grade entirely depends on your TA. Some TA's will give students the answers and work out the whole lab with you while others can't consistently hold a conversation in english and will refuse to tell you if you're even going in the right general direction for your answers.

Daphne Norton is easily the worst lab coordinator of any department. The labs she's written are very vague and if the procedure (which seems designed for you to fail at) isn't followed EXACTLY, you'll lose so many points. Not to mention the lab quizzes that literally everybody failed. Unfortunately, if you take chem, you can't avoid her.

There is little communication between lecture and lab. There were times we would do labs for subjects we hadn't gotten to in class yet, which made things very difficult. Dr. Norton is impossible to get in contact with, and it depends entirely on your TA. The lab practical is rough only because there are few resources/guidelines to study with.

Makes this lab so much harder than it should be. I had a great TA which made all the difference, and would get around a 96 on the labs. The lab quizzes however... I failed 2 of them and wasn't sure what I got wrong and she would not help. I did better in the actual class than I did in the lab, which is saying a ton. Unfortunately, unavoidable.

The lab itself was fine and engaging, but the quizzes are made much harder than the content for seemingly no reason. Even if you get the right answers, if you don't put it down exactly as they expect/want it then no credit is given. Lab periods themselves tend to run shorter than the allotted time, but the TAs make or break the entire class.

After taking this class for 1211 and 1212, I am SO glad to be done. Overall grades depend on the TA. Quizzes were unnecessarily hard (because they're online), and very nitpicky when it came to formatting. For the practical, you'll have no idea to study and it doesn't really matter, because the average is way below passing from year to year.

What happened to compassion in teaching? The plot has been lost with this lady, she is never seen, does she even exist? Harsh grading and grade is heavily reliant on TA, heavily attempts to emphasize on the students "learning" chemistry by doing high school level experiments that don't relate to the normal course over showing care to the students.

Made a couple mistakes at the beginning, causing the TA to treat me like a nuisance. Tried my best after messing up at the beginning, made As for the rest of the semester. Most of the time they would shrug off any questions I had and made sly remarks other times. So demoralizing knowing I was giving the lab my all but wasn't given any care.

Unavoidable, good luck. Research all labs beforehand to make your life easier. Don't expect anything positive to come from this, she doesn't care about you.

If someone can tell me the point and/or benefit of a lab final I will give you every cent to my name

daphne im coming for you

The lab itself is not difficult. However, your grade on each lab report is FULLY determined by your TA. My TA was mostly unhelpful and extremely difficult to talk to/reason with. She would tell us to do one thing and then would proceed take 5-10 points off for doing what she said. If you have a good TA, you should do well.

Pray for a good TA

Your TA will make up most of the lab experience, but the lab quizzes and lab practical (written by Dr. Norton) also impact your grade fairly significantly. The lab quizzes often had trick questions and did not have many questions, so it was easy to get a D or below. The practical was hard to study for as Dr. Norton offered no specific advice.

Your grade really just depends on the TA you get. The quizzes were unnecessarily hard, mainly because it would barley have any questions and getting a few wrong would tank your grade. You also couldn't even see what you got wrong. The actual labs are pretty chill especially if you have a TA who doesn't grade harsh.

Unfortunately, you cannot avoid her if you need to take gen chem labs. Her quizzes have gotten a little easier, but they are still unreasonably difficult. Your experience in lab will almost entirely depend on your TA, but Dr. Norton writes the quizzes and practical, so she will still impact your grade. The lab itself is chill, but she is not.

The labs themselves are not that bad, but this is determine by which TA you will get. The quizzes are terrible, and they will drop your grade down. The labs themselves don't match what you are learning in lecture.