It's an easy class to take and you will most likely get an A or above, but the professor was just so annoying and extra in all regards. She gives you about 7 different grading components: exam, group discussion, top hat, individual quizzes, group reflective writings, class etiquette, scavenger hunts etc.

Her notes are all over the place, and her lectures are very disorganized. She is very sweet but she is not a good teacher. She also has mutiple tophat questions per lecture but she has trouble assigning them, which wastes a lot of class time.

Treats students like children

Mazzino acts like a babysitter and looks down on her students, often comparing us to her "kindergarten students". She gets mad over the quietest noises in class and threatened to not post notes if we keep "disrespecting her".

Disorganized slides. Gatekeeps notes we paid for and refuses to post them because people were being "disrespectful". Threatens to ask students to leave the class if we are "noisy" despite this being my quietest class. Blames low lecture average on students when she does not give notes. Runs out of time because she cannot set up TopHat.

Mazzino is unfair and inconsiderate towards the students in her lecture. She refuses to post lecture notes or give solutions to top-hat questions and gives no time to copy the notes down. I would not recommend taking taking one of her courses!

Dr. Mazzino has been extremely disrespectful to all student, belittling them and treating them like children. Never feels like a positive or encouraging learning environment. Difficult to learn and very condescending.

Awful and rude

She is rude and self-absorbed. She acts like everyone is beneath her and punishes the entire class due to the actions of some students. Despite complaining about students during class, she blames them for wasting her time. She threatened to kick students out of the class if they make a single noise. Would never take a class with her again.

I have never had a worse prof in all my years of school. She offers little to no help in her lectures and get annoyed at students asking questions. Treats her class like it's a prison where nobody can breathe without it being a problem. Belittled her students and acted like everyone owed her something. Didn't learn anything from her

She's a very knowledgable person, but she is so rude to students it makes you dread coming to class. She's had outbursts with students which are terrifying and they're over small noises or requests like turning the lights off to see the screen better. She does not respect students based on how she speaks to and about them.

Dr. Mazzino is incredibly disrespectful to students, and often blames things fully within her control on students. She punishes the entire class for the actions of a few students, and constantly tells you to just "look it up" when students don't know or understand something. She's very rude and genuinely makes me scared of going to class.

Laura is incredibly disrespectful to her students and not at all helpful during feedback. The course just have tests and exams but we have so much unnecessary stuff in the name of tophat, attendance, discussion posts for a science course btw all worth 20/25. Would not recommend taking any course with her, it just isn't worth your time.

Dr. Mazzino's teaching is disastrously inadequate, bordering on educational malpractice. Ignored emails, disdain for student queries, bafflingly undermines UofC academic policies. Her approach catastrophically stifles learning and intellectual growth, rendering her utterly unfit for her educational role. 1st time reporting a prof to the dean.

Mazzino's academic conduct is profoundly lacking. Her persistent non-responsiveness to emails, irritation at student inquiries, and unexplained month-long absence grievously disrupt learning. Her refusal to clarify exam queries and deviation from UofC guidelines, coupled with a tendency to blame students, underscore her unsuitability as an educator

Dr. Mazzino was all around not a good professor. The class was easy enough, but the teaching lacked structure. The biggest issue was Dr. Mazzinos actions towards students. Students were punished for addressing concerns or speaking with her, and as a result, lost 5% of their final grade. Would not recommend this prof but would recommend PHYS 371.

Is passionate, but this has no positive impact unfortunately as she is simply unapproachable, even for serious inquiries. She gets super condescending if you were to send her an email, but would not take the time to respond to any questions in, before or after class.

Dr. Mazzino is the worst professor I've ever had. Although she is passionate about the course, she does not add much to the lectures. Her lectures are very disorganized and she usually spends more time complaining about students than actually teaching. She's also completely unapproachable for enquiry and is very condescending towards her students.

never wore my seatbelt because i didnt wanna go to class

She is just very unorganized. I can tell she is passionate about what she teaches but for a university professor, she must learn how to better organize her grading techniques and how to properly use D2L and gradescope.

Such a rude prof. would call students out in class all the time. quizzes were so easy tho. The class as a whole is light she is just awful and so damn dramatic. If she wasn't on tenure she would be chased by broadway directors. I swear she prays on downfalls.

She is extremely condescending towards students, She constantly contradicts herself, She is extremely unorganized to the point that she doesn't even know what's on her assignments, and she expects that students to teach themselves how to code in a class that does not have a coding pre-req, nor coding any where on the syllabus

DO NOT LET HER TEACH PHYSICS AGAIN BRO PLEEEASSEEE. its fine if its not for physics majors but for a KEY physics class for physics majors shes horrible. There is 0 resources. We have coding assignments but 0 coding pre-req for this class, she wont give us anything to practice with except a textbook with NO SOLUTIONS.

She's unable to meet students and refuses any email communication. She also refuses to give any partial marks on tears (despite claiming to) or do anything to assist the students. Any passion for physics will leave your body after you are taught by her.

She's prime miami heat lebron when it comes to not knowing how to teach physics. She just uses a textbook for everything, no help on anything or teaching anything at all. Go into this class knowing ur going to be teaching yourself all the concepts anyway.

Mazzino is a prof that teaches directly out of the textbook, ignoring any prerequisite knowledge for whatever we learn.(ex/ As a second year course, she ignores explanations of Calculus 3) She assumes students have more time than they do and expects us to learn completely from the text, using Lectures as assists. The Exams are Unfair (47%avg).

frustrating.

messy lecture slides, feels like she reviewed the material last night and teaches it to you, most of the time lectures you on life instead of actual physics.

I would put m

More effort should be put into getting her removed from ever teaching again than actually doing anything in this class because all effort put into this class is meaningless. If you have any hope of avoiding her as a professor, do it.

incredibly messy and disorganized course, there has been a mistake in the due date of every single outline/lab/assignment paper so far. has unfair expectations of students, test-heavy but no test prep materials/resources available (expects you to study from external textbooks, mind you. midterm class avg 40s). unapproachable, has a no email policy.

NO. NO. RUN FROM THIS PROF. SAVE YOURSELF. NO.

Half the lecture is flaunting how "inclusive" she is, and the other half is not explaining relevant physics concepts. Not at all accommodating, no part marks, no deferrals so good luck if you have any sort of emergency. Ask her about how you can improve your marks, she'll tell you that "your marks don't define you" for half an hour.

this is the university nightmare PLEASE HEED THE OTHER REVIEWS DONT TAKE HER FOR THIS CLASS IF YOU CAN HELP IT

If you want to fail, she's the perfect prof!! She is caring but that caring nature is offset by the fact that her marking strategy is meant to fail you. She refuses any partial marks and refuses to accomadate students. Anything that goes wrong is apparently more of a reflection on the students rather than her. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Do not take a course with her. There are no curves, borderline evil assignment guidelines, and horrible horrible lectures. She spends so much lecture time talking about completely unrelated topics, is incredibly condescending to people. She has no idea what she is doing, and is completely out of touch with students.

Mazzino is the worst professor I've ever expirienced. She openly claims to care a lot about students but when it comes to showing that care, her actions show her to be rude and unprofessional. She is condescending when students ask for help, she doesn't put any effort into course content, and will flip out if even mildly criticised.

Classical mechanics is supposed to be hard, but this professor manages to make it 10x worse. She offers little instructional support and does extra work outside scope of the course. Discourages student from talking ab their doubts by the way she treats them, showing no compassion, I say this from personal experience. It's her way or the highway.

4th year student and I have never been around a more apathetic individual in my life. Very rude, forgets to upload crucial information/lecture slides on a regular basis, doesn't respond to a single discussion session, doesn't know what she is talking about during lectures, forgetful. AVOID THIS PERSON AT ALL COSTS SO HELP YOU GOD.

Awful professor, easy class that she somehow has made into a terrible experience. Extremely rude and unprofessional, and she threatens academic misconduct every 5 minutes for the most minute of things. Her slides and her teaching ability is lacking, and if I didn't already have a science background, I would be struggling... AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS!!

Avoid at all costs

This prof threatens academic misconduct for speaking to fellow students. Avoid at all costs

Avoid at all costs. No more online finals.

Treats students like we are in the 5th grade. Unwilling to help answer questions in midterms, and tells students to come to class if they want the answer.

First week of class said the final would be online, changed the weighting and made it in person after the drop deadline. Yelled at us during our second midterm and made it based on things she only said in lecture and not in the slides, and called out students that do not show up to the lecture. PHYS 371 is no longer an easy A. AVOOOOOID

Please, run away.

talks in a condescending way towards students and loves to scares us, i know that she wants to support us but how about a different approach? telling us to change majors or telling us that physics isn't for us just means that you don't want your students to be interested in physics rather, want them to swap out.

……Run…….

While the course itself is really easy and a solid GPA booster, Mazzino makes the class hard to tolerate; often wastes lecture time talking about irrelevant things, threatens academic misconduct for trivial things (ie. taking pics of slides that are posted on D2L anyway & wearing a jacket to an exam in the winter), & generally rude to students.

terrible at teaching avoid at all cost

I think she should teach physics because most of us here are just trying to get through the class material for classes. I am not here to study when office hours are, what times I have to wake up or know about other things in life because I paid a lot for this class and it's 50 minutes each. I just want to learn

Absurd grading scheme and will give you a zero for a question even if it is mostly correct. If it isn't 100% correct, she will fail you which is tricky given that her tests are only three written questions. She is difficult to work with. She even made a comment about how a TA gave someone a zero for a mistake that was only meant to deduct 2 points.

Really tough grader. If you study super hard but if you make a small mistake, -33% of your mark. How? Not only that, grading is so harsh that you have to strive for perfection in order to get full marks. I had a negative in my answer for one of the test marks instead of a positive and I got -10 points out of 30 for it. The goal is to learn, no? 😂

The worst class I have ever had. Every week someone has a new horror story about her acting cruel towards students. Her tests are worth a lot for a small amount of problems in a small amount of time. Avoid if at all possible.

Tests and grading are designed to make you fail. One simple mistake could cost you a third of your test grade. Avoid.

Listen to the other reviews, do not take her classes

Unaccommodating to students. There are no deferred exams so if a life disaster hits, you're gonna have to take a famously impossible final that counts for 50% of your grade.

There's a significant chance that one of the positive reviews for this class was written by mazzino.

Although this class isn't conceptually difficult, Dr.Mazzini manages to make the concepts 100 times more difficult. She is extremely disorganized and seems to be just as confused as her students. Half of the information in her slides that are deemed testable are completely erroneous, making it impossible to understand what is going on.

Shes the kind of prof to give you hours full of lectures on how you shouldn't take stress over small things and then proceed to fail you on a mandatory course cause she didn't like the way you dotted your i's.

Very Awful don't take this prof , she don't even post note online

Worst prof I've ever had. Always goes on a rant about how we can't take pictures of the notes or record the lecture. Doesn't take questions before class either, if you wanna ask a question, have to go to office hours (that is only on Friday). She is very strict for no reason, even the course coordinator is more chill than her. SWITCH IF YOU CAN!

speaks in a demeaning way to students, in person/email. I've asked a question during the midterm because I realized a mistake in the MT and the response I got from her was “You can't ask, maybe if you attended class you would know”. Unorganized with content and hostile. Blamed us for delaying MT when she asked 300 of us to line up outside Eng.

In the time that i have had her as an instructor, she cannot teach the content in a way that sticks and is beneficial to a student. She is demeaning and condescending and both her and course coordinator provided incorrect information saying examinations are like the assignments when they weren't even close. Prepare to read and teach yourself

She is a joke I swear I used to love physics then I took her class and I switched degrees honestly debating going into arts. She is rude, the quizzes only set you up for failure, I knew how to answer all the questions but in the time given if you don't know every answer before going into it you will never get anything over a 40.

She watches as half the class gets a tophat question wrong and moves on without explaining, gives barely any time to answer too. Her teaching is rushed and she explains the concepts very poorly. Also just plain rude answering questions in person and through email which creates a poor learning environment. Be prepared to study everything yourself.

She is hands down the worst professor in the entire school.

The absolute worst professor I've had in my entire undergrad. She shows no respect for students, and blatantly lies about offering volunteer reference letters for your CV. You will be doing yourself a favour by staying away no matter how easy her class is. Her classroom environment is equivalent to that of a prison.

She creates a very bad energy in her classes. Very rude to people who ask valid questions, rambles on about things that don't matter, and then complains when we're behind. If you can, take Abusara for 223 he is much nicer and more helpful. DO NOT RECOMMEND HER WHATSOEVER.

run. take this class with abusara if you can. she is NOT a good prof, and is very rude when you ask questions. she also throws shade at students who email her valid questions, claiming that she has moore important things to worry about!

Genuinely wondering how she is still a professor? Horrible attitude and inability to explain the most basic concepts. Literally degrades students whenever they ask questions. Terrible, stay away at all costs. Extremely hard questions on assessments that she avoids explaining in class.

What can I even say- I beg of you if you have the choice do not take it with her. She'll tell you everything is gonna be multiple choice, and there won't be this and that on it. And SIKEE. I'm convinced that she doesn't even contribute to making of any test or assignment because she doesn't know information about them most of the time.

Absolutely the worst experience with a prof I've ever had. Has no regard for anyone or anything. Doesn't post notes before the lecture, doesn't post completed notes after. Says we gotta read from the textbook but refuses to tell us what to read, therefore we don't know what to learn. An absolute rude human with the way she emails and belittles us

RUN. DO YOU HEAR ME? If you can postpone taking any course w her, please do. There aren't words to describe how unprofessional, uncaring, and tough she is on students. Acts like she's the course coordinator and says she use to be a kindergarten teacher. Find that VERY hard to believe given the way she facilitates her lecs. Please retire.

Although grading was fairly lenient, Dr. Mazzino's lectures were arduous: They often went off on a tangent about personal experiences to the point where it detracted from the lecture material and were unclear in explaining certain topics. Attendance and Top Hat questions were also done in each lecture; make of that what you will.

Laura Mazzino is a kind person and did make efforts to advocate for our class, especially when we had concerns. However, as a physics instructor, I found her teaching style extremely difficult to follow. She refused to post slides before class, which made it unnecessarily hard to take notes and understand the material in real-time.