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Most unhelpful - only interested in her own research.

Didn't even show up to class 9 times because she had calls from NSF

Useless, don't waste time going to class.

She yelled at me and said she doesn't have time to talk to me during her office hours!

I had her for Organic Chemistry. Fairly certain she's still there. Advice? Drop it. She's horrible.

She has no idea how to teach. She knows her stuff, but when she teaches, she acts you should already know everything she is talking about and doesn't really explain.

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Agreed. She thinks we're still in kindergarten.

I had Nelson for Organic Chem I and was mortified to see how ridiculously ineffective she was as a lecturer and teacher. WHY is she the head of the class when she clearly cannot teach? Avoid her like the plague - take Glatzhofer instead.

I looked here before taking the class, not really expecting here to be that bad, but she is. I now hate chemistry and have changed my major. She's the worst "teacher" I've ever had. She needs to be fired.

Worst teacher I've ever had. I went to class every day, tried as hard as I could to get some sort of coherent substance from her lectures, and still got a B. In the words of every person I've talked to - "She's worthless"

She throws overhead pics of the textbook up and reads them to you. There is no teaching what so ever in this class. Do not take her.

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She is a horrible teacher. She leaves you completely unprepared for the next level in the subject material. She is completely unapproachable and rude! AVOID taking her class!

Spent more time doing research for one of her NSF studies than I did on chemistry. By far the worst professor I've ever had at the university.

A VERY BAD PROF...RUN FAR FAR AWAY

Told us "The fasrilm principle cannot quantize to the lth plane of hemons law if quantization proliths via 43 planes"? (wtf)? I dont think anyone figured one sentence made sense the whole semester. Class was the pits with this proff

poor quality teacher better to go with someone else

Avoid her like the plague. She couldn't care less about you, she only wants to pursue her own research and get interviewed about her ties to the production of breaking bad. She doesnt even hold office hours for our class. She thinks her time is more valuable than yours and it really shows. Also, lectures are straight from the book.

Donna Nelson seems knowledgeable; however, she is not the best at communicating the material in a coherent manner. Also, she is not the best at communicating in general. She changed the first test date to a week and a half earlier without sending out a mass email.

If you want to teach yourself absolutely everything, take her. She gives you nothing to be successful. She gives mostly word questions on her organic exams and how is that supposed to teach me how to do organic? Worst Prof, I've had so far. Take Prof Biggs!

She has 15 minutes of office hours before lecture and will not help you during that time. The book is almost no use. She flies through material while other classes with different professors cover less material and have tests at later dates. She rolls her eyes if you ask questions. Tutors can't help. She is intelligent but lacks clarity as teacher.

Do not take her, especially if you have anxiety. She refuses to help you and told other professors not to let us use their work sheets for extra help. Your grade depends 100% on four exams including the final. She only uses the textbook, but the questions on the exam do not come from the textbook. She does not do any practice problems in class.

Her class is only graded by four tests which are kinda hard if you don't read the book. Even if you read the book, the test questions generally aren't from the book. There aren't any practice worksheets. She also isn't very helpful when answering questions. She is very smart but is too smart to teach basic organic chemistry.

She only grades based on tests. She doesn't give out study guides, worksheets, or helpful tips. In lecture she reads out of the book and often times criticizes the author's work, so it can be hard to decipher what she wants. The tests are 20 questions and sporadic, and many of the answers aren't found in the designated chapters for that test.

If you take her ochem, you have to study it yourself , or you have to think to drop it, after first lecture.

This professor is one of the worst I have ever taken. She has no lecture slides, no study guides, or practice problems. Her lectures consist of drawing multiple pictures on the blackboards and giving very vague descriptions of each. One example being a student asking for clarification and her responding with " the difference is on the board". Awful

Her tests aren't hard but she makes the class terrible. You can tell that she wants people to understand but struggles to get the topics across. Doesn't do anything outside of lectures to help students succeed, no practice problems, study guides, lecture notes, nothing. Also the grade is only test grades. Lectures from the textbook.

Donna is too smart to teach this class she belives everything is super easy. she grades you on three tests and one exam, as well as attendance. These are the only grades recived. She does offer extra credit though office hours but thats only if she schedules them for times you are able to attend. Get ready to teach yourself the material.

She is just awful. Her lectures are useless because she doesnt prepare them. She doesnt have a real syllabus, course goals, learning objectives or anything like that. You will go straight through the book if you have her, but you can make an A if you read the textbook and come to class. Her exams have ACS example questions straight from the book.

She's extremely intelligent, but has a hard time explaining concepts to students who are learning the material for the first time. Graded on three tests + the final + attendance, with an opportunity for 10% extra credit. Work hard and you'll do well, but you'll have to teach yourself OChem. She can seem intimidating but is nice in office hours.

Attendance was mandatory to her 200+ person lectures and none of the course content she used was her own. Literally everything she gave us was from the textbook, which sounds nice right? Wrong, during lecture she wouldn't explain anything to us because "the textbook explains it". Tests were taken straight from the end of chapter questions.

avoid like its COVID-19

I am begging you not to take Donna. She has no clue what she is doing with technology and just posts long and boring lectures. Even reading the book there is no comprehension in this class, she sent us to a tutor bc we all were struggling and she cant teach. I promise you will regret taking her for the rest of your life.

Dr. Nelson was incredibly unhelpful. She didnt take any student concerns seriously and our class had to take it to higher ups at the university. I took the online format of the class due to Covid and we encountered numerous technical issues that negatively impacted my grade. Avoid this professor at all costs, I promise its not worth it.

I am a junior and I swear out of high school and all of college she is the worst teacher I have ever had. I have not gotten lower than an A in college, but she definitely took that away! If you are about to take a class with her prepare to be silenced when you ask questions, be disrespected, and most likely get a low grade.

Listen just don't take it, it's not worth your energy & time or money. I am not even trying to bash donna but she really should just not teach anymore, this class is already hard but she makes it worse. The tests are VERY unclear about what's going to be on them, it's like a guessing game. She doesn't want to help or care if succeeds. RUNNNNNN

Youre going to have to teach yourself everything, there isn't even a TA to help you in this class, she has them but never mentions them. She literally lied about a class average on a test when we could see it was a 56. Literally told us it was a 80 and didn't curve the test. TAKE IT IN THE SUMMER, DO NOT BOTHER TAKING HER IT WILL BE HELL.

I have so much respect for anyone who can pass this class. I took her online and it was the most confusing thing I've ever tried in my life. She doesn't offer much guidance, especially not with technology. Donna is definitely intelligent, but she comes off as very condescending. Don't be surprised if you're a typical A+ student and have to drop.

She is often rude to students. Basically teaches straight out of the book. Sometimes, tests are not reflective of material in the book. Overall, a stressful disaster. My recommendation is to read the book instead of watching her lectures. Additionally, I would recommend doing problems in the back of each chapter. OChem is already hard enough

This already difficult class was made tougher by the requirement that the prof. be able to use technology. We only had poorly recorded lectures where she read the slides to us from the textbook. The exams were completely different from the homework and zoom "q&a's" we're filled with little instructional value. I would take another prof.

Please do not take this professor and wait until Biggs is available... Her online course was completely unorganized when it came to technology followed by Zoom "Q&A" sessions that turned into her condescendingly ranting about the class. Donna's pre-recorded lectures were helpful but other than that this class was a total nightmare.

Read the textbook and do as many practice problems from the book as you can. We used WileyPlus and it came with a program called Orion for extra problems. You won't gain anything from the lectures just study and take notes from the book. Gives curves based on raising the highest grade to 100. If someone makes an 80, everyone gets a 20 pt curve.

You won't gain anything from lectures. Read and take good notes of the book. Go through reactions often. Do as many practice problems as you can. We used WileyPlus and it had a program called Orion that has a ton of practice problems. Curves based on the highest score. If the highest score is an 80, everyone gets 20 points.

Minimal curve, maximum stress.

Tests are super difficult compared to problems in the homework and book. Donna was obviously very angry and confused about the online format of this class. She is rude sometimes when answering questions, and she had SO MANY TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!!! This made it very hard with COVID. Don't take her unless it's the only option.

I've always been able to get A's in my classes regardless of the professor. I read Dr. Nelson's bad reviews but enrolled in her class anyway. As a premed student with a 4.0 GPA, I am telling you that you cannot be successful if you take her. Please listen to me when I tell you to avoid this section at any cost. Seriously, do not do this to yourself

Respondus is used on exams which is very frustrating because if wifi crashes, you can't leave or you will get an academic misconduct. She is condescending and only held one zoom a week where she bragged about herself until OU got us a new professor to teach the remainder if you decided to switch. DO NOT TAKE HER IF YOU WANT TO LEARN FOR MCAT/EXAMS

I was given the opportunity to switch professors mid semester (so I did because im not dumb). Her only grades are exams and she uses a lockdown browser (respondus) that will mess up your exam. But it is never her fault, and if you dare to claim it is you'll be sent to the academic misconduct office so fast your head will spin. DONT TAKE HER CLASS!

You will learn by the book, and she will teach you nothing! Get ready to hire a tutor or teach yourself. The only thing she is good for is reporting people for academic misconduct. She will report you for just about anything (no camera on during lecture, asking questions, ext.) For the love of god do not take her class unless you hate your GPA! :)

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS! If you have to take an extra semester so be it. Paying thousands in tuition will be cheaper than what you will have to pay a therapist after you take her course. She has a mindset she is some God that has no right to be asked questions. She will report you for academic misconduct for breathing in her direction, so just dont.

She does not care for her students but rather blame every little issue on them. She does not hold zoom meeting OR try to help you to understand the concept. Her class are self-paced and she is so lazy that she literally jeopardize our exam 1 so the dean had to step in and hired another professor. That should speaks for itself about her teaching.

I don't know where to begin. She was the WORST professor I have ever taken. Because of this pandemic the class was online, yet she never held any actual classes. She would only hold one zoom meeting a week in where she talked about reporting students for academic misconduct. If someone asked a question during this zoom she would get mad. DONT TAKE!

This review is FAR overdue, but what the heck. Im the kind of person who always blames myself for poor performance in classes vs blaming the teacher. DONNA is the exception. Worst proff I have ever had at the University. And thats coming from a 4.0 Pre-Med/ Mechanical ENGR major. SHE has zero care for students and their performance. AVOID PLZ

THE WORST HUMAN I HAVE EVER MET! The class was supposed to meet 3 times a week but she would only hold class when she wanted to and then only talked about herself and her accomplishments. She would degrade students when they would ask questions. Avoid her like the plague.

shes so bad to the point that during mid semester, the dean had to step in and gave all of us permission to withdraws to a different class. Shes such a caring professor that if you fail, she wont even notice. Shes such a good professor that she holds class once every 2 months! Oh and your exam is lockdown and sometimes it wont show up

Please, please do not take her for ochem. When you see 80% of the class drop out in the first 4 weeks of class, you know that there is something really bad going on. Nobody got above a 78 on the first exam. So far, she only holds classes on about half the days where we are supposed to have class. Want to go to office hours? She won't even be there.

GET READY TO TEACH YOURSELF. Ochem is a hard class but Nelson only made it worse. I recommend Clutch Prep and going to Action Tutoring for help. But honestly, don't do it to yourself PLEASE!! Wouldn't wish this woman to be my worst enemy's professor.

Get ready to self learn! It's a flipped class structure, so you watch pre lectures before class and do these practice problems in class. However, she expects you to watch 2-3 hours worth of OChem videos in 1 weekend, so it's just really annoying. Best thing to do is just go at your own pace and read the textbook/slides.

Had to use my first withdrawal! She was condescending when asked any question. Don't take unless this is your only class & you can dedicate time to teaching it yourself. You watch her lectures at home (they don't help answer the practice problems in class). No need to go to class if you can get the pictures of practice problems from someone else.

Basically have to learn everything on your own. Lectures posted online that don't always help with the in class problems. Rude and condescending when asked questions, if she answers emails at all, doesn't even have office hours.

I am in grad school now and Dr. Nelson is still the worst professor I have ever had. She seems like she hates teaching and refuses to answer questions. I don't feel like I truly learned anything in her course, which says a lot since I actually did well. I recommend Dr. Simms, he is difficult but prepares you very well and actually cares about you.

She did flipped method where we did questions in class and study home.She never explained the questions and just gave the answers. She is not accessible outside of class and has no office hours.Her tests were based on questions presented in class but there are hundreds of questions. I did not learn anything. Do not recommend her for MCAT learning.