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SHE WAS REALLY REALLY BAD!!! AVOID AT ALL COSTS

has no idea what she is doing. She is always unprepared and often wants the students to teach the class as a "project". Her exams must come from someone else because I doubt she could answer most of the questions.Aviod he

SHE WAS REALLY REALLY BAD!!! AVOID AT ALL COSTS ~~~This person said it best. She's one of the worst professors I've EVER had.

In my opinion, she is not a good teacher

SHE IS TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!! DON'T TAKE HER!!!!

She make u bored out of ur mind!

This class sucks! If you can stay out of it, run!!!!! She doesn't teach, doesn't care and loves to make you feel like an idiot. Her tests are random... stay AWAY!!

easily the worst professor ive ever had. very rude and condascending. More excuses about why she did not grade her stuff in a timely manner thatn anyone ive ever had. For the love of god, avoid her if u can

Dr. Lorimer is the worst teacher ever! I came here first to see what other students thought and BOY..should I have paid attention. She doesn't hand back things on time..doesn't grade in a timely manner and she has a VERY nasty attitude. Only take her is you NECESSARILY HAVE TO! She'll send your GPA to the basement level. Don't take her classes!

grrrrr

OMG its HELL!!!! i'm a bio pre med student and i was doing just fine with Asch and then she came in and i wanted to shoot myself. she goes sooo fast and not very clear at all,then she tells u not to look at the book cuz its too detailed and then u dont knwo what she's talkin about so its impossible to know what to study for her tests... but no that it matters ur prolly gonna fail it anyways

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anyone who gives her a good rating is on crack. She has an attitude problem and thinks you should know everything she says like that. It's her way or the highway advoid as much as possible.

She thinks that you should know everything coming in the class. I'm going for special Ed why would I want to talk about**** all the time to my students what is the point to the class? That's why they have sex ed

anyone who plans on taking this better double think their decision! Lorimer is a terrible teacher!! You better be able to get your hands on old material in order to pass the class! Her pointless notes do not prepare you for any homework, quizzes or tests! The curve in our class was a 50%, need I say more.

PSYCHO. Moves way too fast.

I hate her, if its not obvious by appearance that she owns 5,000 cats i can confirm, i work in a pet store and she waltzes in all the time. Worst professor ever!

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One of the worst profs at YSU. Doesn't explain the notes, talks 100 mph, is always 10-15 mins late for class, cancels class unexpectedly and then expects you to know the material she didn't teach, tests are IMPOSSIBLE (she asks the most random and specific things so you can't even study for them)! Terrible teaching skills! SHOULD BE FIRED! AVOID!

YSU should really look into firing this woman. She does not deserve to be teaching. She's constantly late to class, and my tuition dollars are being greatly wasted. Her quizzes all contain typos which makes it hard to comprehend the questions; it seems like she types them up five mins before class. Very unapproachable. Do not take her!

"Well no..but yes.see this is a problem when your professor knows to much"If she doesnt get in everything in the lecture, she eliminates slides, however they are still on the test. Also, she picks random charts etc from the book. IMPOSSIBLE.

She does know a lot, but is very poor at organizing her lectures and thoughts so students can understand. She will not cover ANYTHING that's on her exams. They all come from diagrams in the book or random sentences that you won't remember. She has to curve excessively because everyone fails her exams. Do not take her.

Horrible teacher! None of the material is covered in class and usually not in the book either. Doesn't post homeworks until the night before their due. These hws take 5+ hours to do. She wants people to fail. Does not return anything. Holds you accountable for her mistakes for typos (there's a lot of them) or homework not coming up on her website.

AWFUL CLASS! THE LECTURE SHE GAVE MIGHT HAS WELL BEEN IN JAPANESE...SHE DIDNT EXPLAIN THE MATERIAL CLEAR AT ALL.. WOULD TELL YOU TO KNOW STUFF FOR THE TEST THAT WAS NEVER ON THE TEST AND WOULD PURPOSLLY TRY TO TRICK YOU ON THE NEARLY IMPOSIIBLE TESTS.. GIVES BIOLOGY A BAD NAME STUDENTS BEWARE!!!!

Terrible teacher! didn't explain anything at all and her tests we're near impossible to study for. Would not recommend her to anyone! Best advice I have is read the slides and the book and hope for the best.

she should be fired because she cannot teach the course and claims she is a great professor, talk about a liar

She is by far the worst professor on campus. Very rude and tests are really hard.

Absolutely awful. An A is not impossible, but you must teach yourself everything. I recommend studying more from the book than anything else. She is not very open to questions, so office hours are a waste of time. She takes FOREVER to grade and return tests; consider yourself lucky if you get it back before the next one. A waste of my tuition

She was a terrible teacher.Don't take her class if you don't have to. And if you do I wish you the bet in trying to pass. She hates answering questions and she gives no studyguides. no help at all. I regret having her as a professor.

extremely disorganized. Can never give a clear answer if she even let you ask a question and never explains anything. STAY AWAY FROM HER IF POSSIBLE!! extremely unprofessional. Cant believe i paid to take this course

I've had Lorimer for BIOL 2601 and BIOL 3711. I received B's with no help from her. Her lectures are boring, as she just reads from the slides, which is a shame because I love the material when I read the book. She never gives anything back in a timely manner. She does however know her stuff. I'd stay away as much as possible.

She is difficult and not helpful

Steer far clear of this professor! She is unhelpful and cannot teach at the introductory level to save her life. This class is miserable, and it is only intro to biology. I cannot imagine taking an upper level class. If you do get stuck with her, I suggest heavy studying and making that textbook your best friend for the semester.

I went once a week. Learned nothing from her slides or her. Just print them and read them out loud to yourself and there's the lecture! Go Fridays as less people go and she may give bonus points. Has posted hw more than once w/ it due in less than 12 hrs. Often 5-6 mins late on test day and your test packets are HOT. Last min and disorganized.

Every time I end up in her class I reevaluate my life. It's that bad. No help, no ability to convey information in a learnable manner. What she is doing still teaching is beyond me. I would have assumed that enough complaints at this point to be fired.

I've taken her for Biology I and got an A, but that means nothing since the class is supposed to be easy. I now have her for Genetics and had to essentially teach myself all of the material, and since I don't have my Ph.D. in Genetics, it's difficult. She's a very smart lady, of course, but she can't teach. Avoid, if at all possible.

Never is on time. Never takes into fact technical difficulties because every homework assignment is on line. Not very helpful. Grades very slowly. Tests on thinks that were not taught

Hands down the worst professor I've ever had. Showed up on the day of our final twenty minutes late, tests were hot and full of typos - obviously made that morning. Refuses to disclose info about your grade until end of semester. Condescending. The only good thing is as long as you turn everything in and put in a tiny bit of effort, you'll get a B.

Took this course for my biology minor. I've had worse professors than her, but she teaches this course as if it is a higher level than general/intro. Not specific enough in her wording and description, her exams are confusing because you will not know exactly what she is asking for. Take this course with another professor if you have that option.

She's horrible! Everyone in my class hates her because she does a terrible job explaining how to do the projects, so everyone is confused. She's late everyday even though her office is right around the corner from the classroom. Takes forever to grade stuff. Lectures bore me to tears. Doesn't think about the students. VERY condescending! AVOID HER!

This professor always seems loud, disheveled and unprepared for class. She is frequent late or cancels class at the last minute. Everyone had access to material passed down from previous classes and it never changes or gets updated. Stay away!

8 words. If I could rate a zero I would. On any test she will put things she has either went over once or has not ONCE gone over. Good Luck.

Her slides hold no information, she will upload test study guides the day of and then shows up late to class. Talks more about her personal life than teaching, and treats her students with no respect. She will make you buy a $24 attendance app for your phone which she only takes attendance once a week if your lucky. PLEASE do not take this class.

Dr. Lorimer is a woman who knows genetics but she is unable to teach it. She expects students to complete very complex, multi-layered, short answer questions without teaching students how to perform these problems. She is awful with grading, doesn't return things in a timely manner, and can become rude in office hours. Many fail her section.

Shes terrible.

nearly 90% of the time she came late to class, grades everything late so it looks like you are failing the class, very condescending if you do not understand something. most assignments were group projects and tests were somewhat easy but poorly made. avoid if possible

had for cell bio and genetics. Cell bio: awful! makes mistakes on every test but refuses to give points back for 100% right answers bc its too much work and "just one point", takes weeks to grade anything. Genetics: doesn't teach you how to do anything and will throw exceptions she never taught on tests. Late to class and test days. V condescending

She is that one professor that makes you rethink your entire major and life... more than once. It is like a nightmare, you are drowning and she just keeps adding water, making you drown even more. There is no escape, there is no way to survive. You will lose years off of your life. Good luck, you will need it...

Dr. Lorimer knows what she's talking about when it comes to biology and genetics, but she doesn't know how to "dumb it down" to the student level. She is busy with other classes, however that's no excuse to be so completely unprepared. Also, she's incredibly elitist and condescending when you don't understand something (in or out of office hours).

I would never recommend taking a class that is taught by Dr. Lorimer unless you hate your life or you want to question ever decision you've made so far about your major. Don't do it, it is a trap. She's awful. Always late and blamed for her mistakes.

I graduated a few years ago, and I still think about how bad of a professor she was. She has NO regard for her students, and expects them to drop everything for homework she posts mere hours before it's due that requires a solid 3-4 hours of work in the first place. WORST PROFESSOR I HAVE EVER. HAD. Still get nightmares about her in grad school...

Was often late to class, and did not grade anything in a timely manner. Exams were covered things that were (1) not thoroughly covered in class, (2) told would not be on exam, or (3) some things that were not discussed in class AT ALL. Was often confusing material between this course and another she was teaching during semester. Very Large Curve

Dr. Lorimer was not that good at explaining things at all. You were better off not coming to class.

She would never show up to class on time, even on test days, where she showed up 10 minutes late. Her test was not clear and it would not make sense with the way she would word something or when it came to grading them as well. She took a whole month to grade a test and it gives it back to us.

She was literally the worst professor that I took at YSU. Her test were difficult and unclear and there was never a set and decided grading scale. Took forever to get grades back, we would take an exam and not get the grade back til after the next one. DO NOT TAKE HER!

There was simply no way to prepare for her tests; the questions she would ask were entirely different from and infinitely more specific than any of her homework could have prepared you for. The average grades for most of the tests were in the 30-50% range. I personally averaged 50-60 and still managed to be at the top of the class.

Dr. Lorimer is horrible. We had several homework assignments, quizzes and tests. It took the ENTIRE semester for her to grade more than one test. I was lost this entire class and unsure what my grades were because they did not come back to me until the day before the final exam. Thankful for Asch teaching the second part. DO NOT take Lorimer!!!

She is overwhelming elitist and condescending. Her assignments have trick questions that test how well you can get inside her head, not "problem solving skills". It is October and she has not graded anything yet. She says she is the only Bio prof who "thinks about anything". Good luck If you have to take her; I have no idea if I'm failing.....

I am yet to take another course as hard as this one and its not even close; and I am a senior. I scraped out of this with an A. Without Asch for the 2nd part in the fall, I would have finished with a C maybe a B. She is what is wrong with public schooling, tenured in so no matter how many complaints there are against her, nothing will ever be done.

Dr. Lorimer likes things done her way or the highway. If you miss a day of class, and she said something extremely specific, that thing is probably on the exam and you're probably going to fail. She likes work completed her way. She also crammed an entire 14 chapter exam into the week before finals.

She was never prepared to teach class. All of our assignments were last minute thoughts. She made the tests the night before class. She would go off into tangents about things that were not relevant to the class.

Lorimers portion was absolutely horrible. Sign up for tutoring as soon as you sign up for the class. Get ready to be taught by people on YouTube because her way of doing the math is horrible. Make friends to attempt to study together. good luck you are going to need it :(

Dr. Lorimer is a horrible grader. She never turns anything in a timely fashion and waits until the week of finals to turn it in then you have to wait to see if you will be taking her optional final or not. She goes on random tangents during class then you do not cover what you need to cover.

This is the third and final class that I've had her for. While she appears to know the material, she does not teach it well, like she forgets we are just trying to learn, not seasoned professionals. She is late to office hours, does not like to answer emails/in person questions, and takes forever to grade simple assignments. Glad I'm done.

I had Dr. Lorimer for Genetics, and it was possibly the worst class Ive taken in college. She waited until literally finals week to put the majority of our grades in, and I would likely not have passed at all if Asch didnt teach the second half. Avoid taking her classes if you can. She is a very smart woman, but just unfortunately a bad teacher.

I took her for classes this semester and regret both. She is a terrible grader, and when I asked if the test I had taken over a month prior would be graded before the withdrawal date, she got rather rude with me. She required a text book only to say it sucks and she wont use it anymore, but then has some textbook info on tests. Test are random info

Grading was very untimely and took weeks on end to grade simple quizzes, responds poorly to emails, and lectures were hard to follow. The professor knows a lot about the topic and has very good knowledge, but shares it rather than teaches it.

She clearly knew what she was teaching and she talked a lot about her credentials which wasn't necessary. She didn't finish grading until the day before it was due. You had an option to be in class or online. She made our class feel like her last priority, it was informative if you payed attention.

Came to the first exam 15 minutes late due to "technical difficulties." Talked loudly on the phone in front of us during the first exam. Still have only two grades back and it's November. Rants about random things including her political views instead of covering lecture material and still expects us to know that material for the exam.