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This guy is not liked he needs to go back to long beach

i was very interested in chem and i was looking forward to this class, but this professor turned me away. He was very rude, his tests unclear, and he wasn't helpful. I recommend not taking him unless you know everything about chem, like he thinks he does.

He is quite difficult and leaves everyone in the class very confused. Be prepared to not know when anything is due or what exactly he expects you to do. Every question will be followed by a page # of the assigned book or of his terribly constructed lab manuel that has more errors than anything I ever turned in to him. He's an idiot.

This truly was the most poorly taught class ever. He is very smart and could be a great teacher, but he is terrible. You will never know what you are doing in class, when things are due or what you should be working on. It is the most frustrating class ever because of this, but you wont fail the class unless you really dont do any work.

HORRIBLE! The class material was hard enough and he teaches as though we've taken years of chemistry! He is unclear about when and what material to cover. He does answer questions but the answers are often more confusing than the question! AVOID HIM!

by far the most horrible teacher I have ever had, avoid this guy at all costs. His lectures bounce all over the place his expectations are never clear, you pretty much just teach yourself. He is completly unhelpful and will not work with you as far as lab packets. DO NOT TAKE HIM!!!!!

Horrible. Unorganized. Can never remember due dates, sometimes forgets to collect stuff, takes weeks to grade anything. Picks favorites, expects everyone to do extra on every lab, and if you dont, he marks you down. Is unclear about what he wants on assignments, and throws out test questions completely from left field Dont take him!!!

TERRIBLE. Not only is he EXTREMELY weird, but he just expects you to know everything about chemistry even before taking this class. Plus there is over 20 quizzes and tests are hard. DONT TAKE HIS CLASS!

DO NOT take this teacher. I took him in spring 05 for my 1st semester. Just before the drop with a W date, he gave the take home midterm out a week early w/o prior notice. I was out for my 2nd time in the semester. He gave me 3hrs to do the take home or fail so I had to drop the class.

He once told me I didnt have what it takes. He told me I wasnt cut out for his class. Guess what! Now im in Pharmacy School after recieving a bachealor at UCSD. I guess someone isnt cut out for teaching. Horrible teacher. Rediculous class. This guy is no real teacher. The school board should remove his liscence.

I took this professor a few years ago. He was absolutely horrible. He actually decided to fail me because he said he felt i needed to take his class again. What I did was I took it at U.C.S.D. where I was accepted. I got an a. Now more than 5 years later im at pharmacy school working on my pharmD. This man simply cant teach.

This is my second time taking this class with this teacher because I had no choice. Big mistake!!! Quite difficult with all his exercises and too much questions, you'll run out of time. He is not helpful at all and I suggest take someone else if you want to pass Chem. Read all the ratings on him, pretty much sums up what he is. GL!

I got an A in this course but the Professor is awful. It was my only class and I wasn't working and I still spent about 15 hours a week studying ( I took his class online). Even if you have the time I wouldn't take this class, he is very disorganized and takes forever to respond to questions. Take any other professor but Gergens

DO NOT take this professor. He is absolutely insane when it comes to homework, quizzes, etc. You should only take this professor if you have no other choice. REALLY HARD GRADER.

Do not take his class. The worst of all professors I have ever seen in my life. He does not have time for anything. He leaves the lab, comes late, and is not organized. Whatever bad adjective that you know matches with this guy. He gives you stress. He is here to disgust people from all science subjects not to teach them anything.

First off, I'm married to a 3rd year chemical biology/genetics PH.D student from SCRIPPS (#6 top chem program in U.S.). One online test 2 Post Docs, Hubby and I all got a 91%. And these people are doing top notch research and are published! I don't think he's even published. HE is unorganized, pompous, goes off on tangents, useless, ambiguous, etc.

It's funny that my review keeps getting flagged...I wonder who is doing that. Anyways, the negative comments on this site are completely accurate. He's a horrendous teacher...I'm thankful that I had some Chem background or I wouldn't have passed. It's now 2 weeks post semester and we still don't have our final grades...pretty sad.

This site keeps removing my posting-very frustrating b/c I am telling the absolute truth about this teacher! This class was very hard to succeed in--he made it very difficult b/c he doesn't explain/teach well. You really have to teach yourself & use you tube. He tests on material he hasn't taught. He doesn't give straight answers to questions. Bad!

I wish I could turn back time and not take this professor for online chem 100. The way he formats his schedule is so confusing I spend a lot of time figuring out WHAT to study. He sneaks 30 questions into one question (worth 30) right at the very end so if you run out of time you can guarantee a bad score. If I were you I'd reconsider taking him.

I couldn't agree more with the previous post. Gergens is inconsistent with scheduling, grading and testing, He is rude & condescending. He sets his students up for failure via test layouts and confusing lectures. He makes the subject far more complicated than it needs to be. He holds students to very high standards, but makes mistakes all the time

He is the worst teacher I had in 30 years. This was the first time I ever dropped a class. He makes EVERYTHING way more complicated than it needs to be. He does not know how to address people on a human level, I dont think this person should be teaching, he should dedicate his life to science.

Yes,O Chem is hard, but this guy makes this subject nearly impossible. Has been teaching so long that he has hundreds of videos you will be watching outside of class & packet after packet you need to print out and do. Makes subject way more difficult than it needs to be. Overwhelming. Docks LOTS points for tiny things. Refuses to answer questions

Awful!!!! He is condescending. Not one thing in his disorganized lectures have helped in ANY assignments. He just expects you to know everything he does about chem - can't bring it down to a intro to chem level. Told me that I shouldn't require tutoring if I read the chapter and that he wouldn't provide any extra help. Avoid at all costs!

He touts "accuracy and precision" in everything students do, yet his website and handouts are rife with grammatical errors and misspelled words. He goes on tangents rather than teaches. If you ask him a question he will direct you to one of the hundreds of poor resolution, poor audio quality videos he made 10 years ago. Take someone else.

This class was impossible. He is the most terrible instructor I have ever had. WARNING - this class is 90% online work!! All assignments, tests, and handouts are online. He barely does anything in class!! Instead of giving us a good lecture and notes, he makes us watch his videos which are choppy and hard to hear. If you ask me, he's just lazy!

I took the on line class with him, and the lab with a different teacher at Miramar. He referred back to the lab manual on one test (different manual at Miramar College) and I lost 38 pts, also secret word on other 2 tests did not appear and I lost 20pts. He does not respond to emails (5 e-mails) at all. The amount of links will make you dizzy.

He is one of the worst teachers I've had in my 3 years in college. He is very obnoxious and does not seem to really care about how his students do in the class. If you do take his class, I would recommend learning the mnemonic devices he recites in class because they will be on the test. Overall, I would not recommend him.

He is the worst professor I have ever had. I am an A student, I'm used to working hard for my grade. He doesn't follow his syllabus, he hands back graded work weeks after you've turned it in. He is pompous and rude! Don't even try to ask him questions in class, he'll make you feel like an idiot. He says one thing and does the other. Dissapointing.

91 Rating with 2.5 GPA that explains something is not right

Belittlement is real with this one. You want to know what it feels like to be stupid step right up hes got you covered. His online formatt is ridiculously unclear and gets defensive when you tell him this. You can do anything ahead of time. Literally was 1 or more assignments due daily. I do NOT recommend him. I pity those forced to take him.

The worst teacher you would see in your academic career, he does not want to teach at all, he makes fun of students who ask questions, he keeps asking students to drop his class for no reason . Everything is disorganized in his class, if you can not teach yourself Or not used to it, you would fail for sure

Terrible instructor, he does not do anything in the class, he will ask you to watch his videos from 2006, which have a bad quality and not really helpful to do his assignment online, take different professor if you really want to learn anything

he is brilliant , not in chemistry but in bragging about himself. Take a different Professor because he thinks you could learn organic through his online videos.

AVOID ONLINE CLASS AT ALL COSTS! Disorganized course content, due dates don't correspond to syllabus, tests are often available for 48 hours or LESS and when it's gone, it's gone! Not helpful via email. Makes you watch poor quality videos made by himself with codewords like COUCH hidden in them. Seriously! Do not buy lecture packet, it's USELESS.

He will make you hate everything that is related to chemistry, very rude and disorganized , take different professor

this guy is out to ruin your GPA and your learning. he does not teach, he "teaches" through his websites and blackboard. Feels like an online class. avoid him if you can.

Organic chemistry is a hard class, but he makes is more complicated and harder to understand .

He makes organic harder than what it is supposed to be. He thinks he is teaching an online class

This instructor should never be allowed to teach any courses, he does not want his students to learn any information.

a lot of teachers seem to be convinced that making a fairly easy class unnecessarily impossible presents them as intelligent How can you turn a class that is solely dependent on memorization into torture? By being all over the place, unorganized,unrealistic.

Very disorganized, he makes organic chemistry unnecessarily hard

very disorganized, you will never know what chapter he is teaching because he does not have a syllabus or a schedule to follow. IF students ask him question during lecture, He will answer their questions, otherwise, he will talk about the same concept for the whole semester. His electronic calendar is very confusing. Do not take him

if you want to spend 50 hours every week just to study for his class, then take him. he assigns too much homework even though he does not cover all the material. He expects you to know everything about organic before you take his class. it is impossible to even get B in his class

I would definitely take him for lab because he has videos on his website about the set-up and he has sample reports too , he really makes lab pretty easy. However, I would not recommend him for lecture , because he does not know how to lecture and he does not want to talk about organic at all.

try to avoid this class as possible. Alot of homework, and every small simple mistake " such as date" will lose points. I had very bad experience and I don't want to you live that stress.

He thinks students take only his class during the semester. The amount of homework he assigns in unbelievable, you will work for hours and hours on your assignments just because he does not like to teach in class and he wants you to watch his poor quality videos from a decade ago. you will be stressed the whole semester if you take his class.

The only students who would not feel stressed and would get A in his class are the one who already know everything about organic. It is impossible to get A , plus you will not even have time to study because the amount of homework he assigns is unbelievable.

If you take his class, be ready to spend 50 hours just watching his poor quality videos because he does not like to lecture like any other traditional instructor

Please avoid taking his class, I have no idea why this instructor is still teaching a hard and important class like organic. Every time I ask him question about the materia, he refers me back to his old quality videos. If you want to understand organic, do not take his class because you will spend so many hours teaching your self the material

If you want to torture yourself and have diseases , then take his classes. There is no way some one could get A in his class. Plus, you need to teach yourself organic because he retired from 2004 and he does not like to teach anymore because he recorded his all lectures and he makes students watch them instead of teaching the concepts in class

One phrase you will hear it from him every time you ask him a question abou the material is go back and watch my videos because obviously do not like to teach any more

his one period labs rush you to the point where you feel you did not learn anything and there is emphasis on the speed on how you do the labs rather than the quality and at the end your grades suffer because you were trying to finish before his set time where he keeps reminding you he would deduct a lot of points if you do not finish on time.

very hard to pass the class with even a B not because you do not study but because he does not teach the material. He should list his class as an online class because he refers you to his videos all the time.

I should have dropped after the first week, organic chemistry is a hard class, but this instructor made it 10 times harder

I do not really recommend taking Organic chemistry with him. You need a peaceful and friendly professor to learn organic because it is not an easy class and you will to go to office hours all the time. With this instructor, you can not even ask a question without him mocking you in front of everyone. Not helpful in his office hours. Hard A

His tests are extremely hard. And he is very unhelpful. When you see him in his office hour, he acts like he does not care and when you ask for help, he tells you to figure it out on ur own. I've never had a professor like him all my college year. Regret taking him

I wonder how such a good school hire an instructor like him. During the laboratory, he sits on his chair for three hours without even asking his students if they need any help, and if you go and talk to him, he will say, " did not you watch my videos before you come to the lab" needless to say, his videos are poor quality videos.

Please avoid this professor if you care about your future and also your GPA. He does not teach at all in the lecture, and you feel clueless because he has not taught anything. He says "We have already gone over this" even though he has not taught anything and goes off on tangents about seminars on soap dispensers !!! AVOID

When you're registering for classes and the department puts STAFF at the time of registration in place of the professor's name, that means you end up taking a course with this professor, who is by far the worst professor in the entire San Diego Mesa College Chemistry Department. Please avoid him as much as you can, he does not teach the material.

Instead of teaching Chemistry, this professor prefers to go on about mantras that are not helpful for exams. It feels like he should have been teaching an English class because he cares more about spelling words and handwriting more than actual lab coursework and calculations. Please avoid if you are a Chemistry major and you actually want to learn

What is the point of getting A in the class without learning any thing !!!! Exams are take home , everyone gets A,, students form study group, so it is easy to get As in the take home exams but the final inclass and is 32%.You will teach your self organic chemistry since day one. Do not take his class

If looking for a decent Organic Chemistry class, do not take this class. He adds assignments that were not part of the homeworks that were part of the "calendar" that he uses. This professor does not go over examples that could help us in assignments and tests. He tests you on things that were never taught to the students and is significantly hard

Hardest lab I have ever taken. It's so much unecessary work. Pre-labs take about 3 hours to do. He's very sassy through email & always refers to his online calendar even when the directions aren't clear. He's a nice person, but a horrible professor. Very unorganized, barely gives back any graded work. Always makes us watch his boring videos.

If you take Prof Gergens class you will have to hurdle through video/online content of poor quality, a very hands off teaching method, confusing quizzes and tests. Personally I would not take this Professor again, as I had to spend more time navigating his maze of a course then focusing on the concepts of Chemistry.

Wastes time talking about ridiculous theories about life. Totally disorganized, instead of putting directions in one place he scatters links all over his messy blackboard page to make things as difficult as possible. He makes simple concepts complicated, he is obtuse on purpose.

Omg currently sitting in his class. HE JUST MAKES SAYINGS TO REMEMBER THINGS. DOES NOT TEACH. Gave a functional group test the second day of class using his own dumb hand gestures. EVEN THOUGH FUNCTIONAL GROUPS ARE IN CHAPTER 3.

One of the worst professor I have taken in my life. He does not teach, but he likes to assign a lot of homework that he has not explained. if you have to take him, try to read the book and watch a lot videos.

I have never actually put anything up on this site before because honestly I have never had too. However,this man has changed that. Please do not make the same mistake that I did by taking him. If you have other options please by all means go with the other options and save your G.P.A. This professor does not care about your well being! Run

OMG It's finals week right now, I thought we were clear and CHEM 100L is done. Out of nowhere without warning us, preparing us, or even giving us a study guide, He just gave us a surprise timed final exam. By all means even when you're desperate for a lab class like I was, don't take him, i'm a straight A student and is struggling with him.

Just the facts: For lecture he just scribbles on blank paper. Changed due date of assignment w/o warning One assignment was 8 hrs of videos Doesn't follow the book Tests on material not covered 1st MT- 15 pgs, took all S-break 2nd MT- 11 pgs Gave us extra hw halfway through weekend, due Mon EC on final was about a card game A's in all other classes

Exams are not relevant, they cover information not reviewed in class at all. They are online and timed, with not enough time to finish. The professor wastes time in class off topic. Online HW is hours of 10-20 y/o videos, another waste of time. Second half of semester was totally disorganized. The schedule is ever changing, even up to the day of.

Do not take this professor. He makes you watch a pointless hour long video on top of doing an assignment that takes another hour before you even do the lab manual assignment. His assignments are pointless, repetitive, and a waste of time. His website is also difficult to navigate, too many links. Do yourself a favor and pick another professor.

Never responds to emails and expects you to just know everything and how to do everything the way he wants

Where do I even start. My Dear LORD if you want to save your GPA and your inspiration, I suggest you do take another professor. Gergens does not care about his students, and he will guide you to nothing but misery. Take it from someone who took him for Chem231, don't waste your time with this professor, I literally want to quit school.

From the beginning of the semester he started giving an absurd number of assignments due on blackboard. By absurd I mean about literally 25 assignments that he had never taught us anything about. He has these weird videos with hidden key words that he forces us to see even though we have a lab manual to read everything. AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!

Currenlty taking Dr. Gergens class, chem231L. He makes us memorize functional groups by using his hand gestures and MANTRAS for "success in his class." The only way to be successful in this class is if he's not teaching it.

My first impression of his was wow this man is so narcissistic. And I was right. He sets his students up to fail. He is unethical with regards to grading and immoral how he treats his students. Take a look at his syllabus website for yourself for the amount of work this class is Google: dgergens chem231 mesa. IT'S REDIC

He is loves the sound of his own voice, so talks to waste time. So unorganized has three sets of different directions: one on his youtube page which is mandatory to watch, second set of directions is on the lab manual which he created and third is on this blackboard page. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS! O chem is hard in general but he makes it x10 harder

If you are comfortable with a rambling professor with uninteresting stories, take this class. I can't believe the amount of time he wastes for 1 credit of lab. He makes you write out lab procedures! The videos he makes you watch are boring and get ready for 15 second pauses when they aren't necessary. Did I mention the 12 page syllabus?

This is the second semester I've had this professor. Luckily I only have him for lab section this semester but he is still just as awful. DO NOT pick him as your professor. He is the WORST professor I've ever had. Don't bother asking him for help, he'll just talk to you like you're stupid. Makes you watch hours of youtube videos of himself talking.

This teacher has inspired me to really demonstrate what it means to push flaws inabilities and short comings on to a teacher. I cant wait to see what will happen next in his teaching career!

The absolute worst professor! He's unfair, doesn't really care if you pass, and he assumes that you know everything on the tests and quizzes. I'm literally border line failing. Please avoid this professor. I had no choice but to take him since he was a last resort.

I was a straight A student before taking this class and I really hate saying negative things about anyone. But, do not select him for your teacher if you care about learning or your grade. His assignments are tedious and in no way prepare you for your actual chem lecture. He was the worst teacher I have ever had.

If you need to take chem and there is no one other than professor gergens? Wait another semester. He is disorganized, condescending, narcissistic, and a waste of your time. You aren't learning from him, you are using Google and the back of your book. He does not teach, he posts old iPod videos and papers with scribbles. In lab he rambles & insults

He literally dropped me the last day we were able to add any other classes, so here I am, last minute trying to find a replacement. He gives lots of confusing work.

Confusing website. Videos are unhelpful and low quality. Does not guide you during lab so it gets pretty overwhelming because he expects you to know what to do. It can be discouraging, so stay strong. I did not find it challenging I found it uninspiring. The comments here are useful but I wanted to give it a chance; it was a mistake.

Extreme amounts of homework, he does not care if you pass or not and is a extremely tough grader. Sadly I had to take him and out of all the classes I've taken in my college years, he has been the worst and hardest teacher I've ever had.

It really shows when a professor no longer enjoys his or her job. I definitely saw that from him. It is not worth taking this class. He was disrespectful and condescending. I thought it couldnt be that bad after reading the reviews, but I was disappointed. He leaves the room to make you watch old quality videos. He does not care about students.

YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN! He provides 12 minute youtube videos instead of interactive lectures (from 10 years ago). He shouldn't be paid if he is expecting us to teach ourselves. When you reach out to tell him you are struggling, all he does is ask if you are reading the text book. I received an A in this class because I taught myself 100%.

The worst professor I've ever had. If you are reading this DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE WITH DWAYNE GERGENS. DO NOT! DO NOT! DO NOT! He should not be considered a teacher. He just directs you to videos and tells you to read. No lecture. No structure. He's Lazy. Doesn't show his face except from 20 years ago. Seriously-- do not take his course. #REGRET

This class on its own is not enjoyable unless you are specifically interested in chem and this prof makes it even less enjoyable. The contents of the class are hard to follow and the quizzes and tests are confusing and tedious. You can definitely get a decent grade if you want to put the time in, but if you can you should take a different class.

I have taken university classes in the US and Tokyo, and CC classes in OR and CA, and my honest impression: he is burned out and unwilling to update his material from 30 years ago. Inconsistent expectations, contradictory class content, an incredible lack of attention to detail. Proud of his 70% class average. Worst teacher I've ever had, period.

Prepare to teach yourself everything. He uses his own material from the 90’s and is very confusing to follow when he teaches. I learned more from Kahn Academy than I did him. He mixes up class content and misspells a ton of important things like chemical names. He is friendly but thats not worth the stress of having to teach yourself.

This is a man who simply should not be teaching. He is a poor communicator and general conveyer of information. You will have to do the vast majority of work on your own as even when you come to him directly he never seems to understand how to teach Ochem subjects. His lab class is confusing and poorly laid out.

Do not take him! He does not teach, you have to learn everything on your own. His information is very outdated. He doesn't grade any assignments until very late in the semester.

Taking an online course in person is awesome. He teaches depending how he feels and the only thing really important is the lab day.

I did fairly well in chemistry both in high school and at a four year university but his class boggles my mind. He mostly goes on tangents when lecturing so be prepared to teach yourself the material. His tests are also probably really old so updated online info won't help on his tests. I'd suggest going with a different teacher if you can.

Do you like to take chemistry lectures from a sad man? A man whose only goal is to demonstrate that he is so much smarter than you? A man who never updates his teaching materials and frequently goes off-topic on boring tangents? A man who makes chemistry even more difficult than it needs to be? If so, Dwayne Gergens is your kind of 'professor'.