Wretched professor. Lectures were unclear and disconnected. There was no sense of organization to the class. Never prepared class well for tests. Arrogant, and obviously at U-M for research, not for teaching. Appalling how tuition money is wasted.

His lectures are not only unclear and disconnected, they contain incorrect information and miss important points which appear on the exams. He does not know what he is teaching. I have to attend the other lecture for correct/detailed information.

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Calling him a bad teacher is not enough. He is the worst human being I have ever met. I don't understand why they let him teach. We started off with over three hundred kids in the class. The last day we had twenty attend.

Worst teacher in the history of my education. Extremely arrogant and uncaring about students. Avoid him completely.

Said he is only there to do research and teaching chem came along with that deal. Not very helpful to students. Get out while you can!!!

He is absolutely horrible, as I recall that he often gets upset and curse that f*** word. Despite I got A-, I simply reject him like****!!!!!!!!!!!

The only professor I've ever had that said "My early morning coffee is more important than your education" and snickered. Not to mention the 10 min segway one day of how he just got a speeding ticket in his new ferarri *cough* *cough* oh so sorry glick. 'nuff said.

One of the worst teachers at this university. Should be fired.

Terrible teacher. Left for Octoberfest during the first exam, no concern for the students AT ALL.

Funny guy, complete waste as a teacher.

I try to be open minded about professors, but everyone here is absolutely correct. He is arrogant, unprofessional, rude, and intolerable. Avoid this man at all costs- I sincerely hope he does not have/receive tenure!

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I sat in for one lecture when I had overslept for Nolta's lecture. Wow, it made getting up two hours earlier seem very pleasant when compared to Glick's horrible notes, contempt for students and frequent mistakes. He could not explain anything clearly. Even if it means losing sleep on a Friday morning, take Nolta!

He's a wealthy venture-capitalist researcher. With that said, he's completely arrogant. He does not care if you know the material or not. He will openly make fun of the questions that people ask in class. I was in his lecture for about 3 weeks before switching to Dr. Nolta (truly a godsend) and it seemed that each day the class got smaller.

Worst professor I've had so far at UofM. The stuff he teaches doesn't have anything to do with what you need to do well in the class. Even if you read the book, you still won't understand anything he says. He only cares about himself, his money, his business, and his damn dog, which he brings to class sometimes.

Very frustrating. He tried to do a review for our chem 210 exam and made things more confusing. He is also not clear about how our lab grade will be assigned. His lab lecture is very pointless and at the very last one, only 20 people showed up.

I thought he was entertaining and I enjoyed lecture at first. Then I realized that he barely mentioned the lab experiements. He never told us how to do any of them! I stopped going and used that time to research the lab material on my own. Take him for lab lecture, you won't even feel guilty for not going.

He was not clear at all about how our grades would be assigned!!!

Completely pointless to go to the lecture. There was also no structure to the grading at all.

Your grade depended mostly on luck rather than the work you did for the lab. If you got a GSI that gave out a lot of check +s, chances are you're doing good. Otherwise, you will be very surprised about your grade (in a bad way).

Glick was useless in teaching us material and had no structure in assigning grades. I had one less check + than a peer and earned a B versus my friend earning an A+. Did not respond to my email on why I got my grade.

How were our grades assigned? We don't know! Why? He simply never explained to us.

Horrible professor. Avoid him.

This guy was absolutely terrible. Lab lecture started with 200+ people showing up, went down to only about 20 for the last one. Our grades were never explained to us. If you think the professor doesn't make the difference for a lab, think again. It does.

Never taught us a single thing. Lab lecture was not at all worth going to. Wait until you come to chem 216...good luck with that.

Worst professor ever. I blame him for not being ready for Chem 216. Never taught us anything relevant to the lab so nobody goes to lab lecture. Grades were assigned without structure. Avoid.

I hate chemistry all because of him. Never talked about anything relevant to lab. You won't feel guilty about not going to lab lecture.

Everything said about him is true. I initially thought the professor for lab doesn't matter. Wrong. He does not teach us anything relevant to lab, and had no structure to assigning grades. Your grade is a surprise. You can think that you do the work well, you get an A. Not true. He won't explain to you how you got the grade you got.

He was god awful. I was never a fan of chemistry to begin with. He made my experience even worse

Worst class ever. No structure to grading. Why use check, check+, and check-, instead of real points? Lectures were useless. You have no idea what your grade could be until they come up. The ctools gradebook was empty all semester

Worst professor I had all year. Lectures were never relevant to lab, so don't bother going. Showed no interest in teaching. Grades were assigned without explanation.

You literally will not get the grade you expect. He is not helpful in lecture and at the end of the semester your final grade is the biggest surprise ever.

awful. avoid him

He never explains the labs, and his lectures are useless.

He is very unclear in what he expects for the final exam and the Labs are graded, Good (70%), Very Good (85%), Excellent (100%), so cross your fingers that your GSI is helpful/lenient.

Worst professor ever. Lab lectures don't help. A lot of your experience with this class is dependent on your GSI.

This guy just sucks. His lectures teach you nothing you can't learn from literally reading over your lab course pack before lab begins. His humor is lame and drawn out, and he has a very condescending way of carrying himself. I'd be hard pressed to find a single student who enjoyed having him this semester. Skip this guy, he's a joke.

The day before the final, he sent an email saying he would not answer any questions regarding the final. On top of that, he posted no review materials, held no review sessions, no practice tests, etc. Our only source of review are his vague lecture slides. Way to make a 1 credit class more work than some of my 4 credit classes.

I'm a senior taking this class. This is the worst prof I've had at UM. That should say something. At least in other bad classes, the prof usually makes an effort, to some extent. He genuinely does not care - he doesn't even show up to class sometimes! To top it off I've seen him talk to my peers very condescendingly in lab. AVOID HIM.

This guy is the utmost worst professor at this university. He shouldn't even be a professor. Shows absolutely 0 interest in the course and for no apparent reason are we being assigned a lab final exam. If you have to wait until you're 35 yrs old to take orgo 1 lab, do so. AVOID THIS HUMAN

DO NOT. I REPEAT: DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS (with Glick). I'm sorry, but his lack of interest in this class makes it seem like he is actually intentionally setting us up for failure. I am currently 'studying' for the final with NO IDEA what I should even be looking at because he has given us no information on how to prepare or what to study.

Please avoid taking this class with Glick. There is an arbitrary grading scale for the labs and an exam of unknown content at the end. Hold it off for a semester if you can and take orgo 1 lab with a different prof.

He is rude and unhelpful. The lab is extremely GSI dependent, but even if you're doing well in lab, Glick will try to ruin it with the final exam. Why do we have a final exam????

The grading system for lab reports is unbelievably arbitrary. This guy won't even tell us anything about the format of the final exam or how we should prepare for it. Terrible teacher

It is highly GSI dependent.5 lab reports. My GSI asked me to turn in the last one by the end of the class, but another GSI said the due date was the end of the week at his office hour. For the first two , I got the grading sheets, but for the last three, he only circled two or three places and gave me "Very Good" (B) without grading sheets.

He made a hard exam. He said in his announcement the days before the final exam, "During each of the two last lectures, I discussed what would be on the final exam, what to study for, and how to study. Neither Tyler or I will respond to such questions by email. If you are confused, please look back at your notes from the last lectures."

Go through EVERY detail in the lab coursepack. Circle the unnoticeable words. Even if it asks you to die in an extremely small font, do it! Have a VERY good relationship with your GSI who may pick on you when grading your lab reports. Love him or her if possible! Seek help or you will make many mistakes. It's even harder than chem 210 with Nolta!

This guy was condescending and made no effort to teach his class. He gives zero about his students and this is very clear in both his appearance and attendance at lecture. Avoid at all costs as he is scum.

Harder than the orgo lecture. He does not care at all, expects his students to magically know information and is very condescending and rude. The final he gave was ridiculous testing non- orgo related concepts and even the orgo related concepts that he tested are not from orgo 1! your better off deferring a semester of lab than taking it with him.

The worst class I have taken at umich so far! He is not helpful, condescending and the grade you will receive is a shock. The final was ridiculous testing concepts that are not even orgo related but gen chem related. Your better off deferring a semester of lab than taking it with him.

Not worth taking this class with Glick. He is not helpful, looks down on his students and expects us to know information that is not even orgo related. I wish I took this class with Nolta. You are better off deferring a semester than taking it with him. The final tested non-orgo concepts and was ridiculous.

This is the worst prof I will hopefully ever have. Never said what was on the final exam and expected us to remember concepts from AP chem. I really don't even know how he is a professor. I felt like a 1st grader with his grading scale of good, very good, or excellent. DO NOT TAKE THIS WITH GLICK.

This is the worst teacher I've ever had. This man knows nothing about teaching whatsoever. I had perfects on all the labs but when it came to the final he made it ridiculously hard. Avoid any class that he may teach. The guys worth millions and couldn't care less about anyone other than himself.

Even if you do well in the lab and average on the final, you won't get a good grade. No clear information on what grades are based on. Only get a few graded labs back & if you try to calculate a final grade based on that and the score on the final, you get a different (lower) grade than what you should get based on the grading scale they send out.

Worthless professor who is only teaching to ensure his company will continue to receive university funding. So unhelpful and arrogant. The actual lab isn't hard but the lectures are useless and the exam was pointless given that more than a few questions on it was material that wasn't ever actually covered. Avoid him!

Worst class ever. Wanna think that you did well in the class but then get a much lower grade than you expect? That's Glick. Your grade for this lab was all dependent on your GSI as well as who else was in your lab. Your lab reports were given a check+, check, or check-, which didn't really have any meaning.

Please take this class with a good GSI. Or you will get frustrated each time you get your graded lab report returned to you. Writing lab reports require skills, and Glick made it difficult to master them. Glick + bad GSI cause chem 211 = PE + Technical Writing. Take it with Nolta. She does not give a final exam and makes it really interesting.

This lab was not enjoyable. First lecture: 200+ people, last lecture: 20 people showed up. Lab reports were merely graded as check+, check, check-. No rubric for grading either. Your final grade once it is assigned at the end of the semester is the biggest surprise ever. You can do all the work and still end up with a bad grade.

Might be good for a seminar course, but not for a legit chem course. Wrote some irrelevant exam. How grading is done is NOT clear at all - your final grade is either hit or miss. Your experience will depend greatly on your GSI. Clearly shows that he has no desire to be there.