She doesn't actually teach the class but her labs are the devil, as well as the grading system, pray that you have a German name if you hope for an A.

Worhtless class, NEVER EVER TAKE A CHEMISTRY COURSE AT OSU. Annoying TAs, idiotic lab reports, and completely worthless lecture and recessitations. I have plenty of bile for the chemistry deptartment, but not enough space to write it all. Terrible teacher, not the worst in Chemistry Department, but worst Chemistry Department in Oregon.

Help me! She is no help in a class that offers no help. This hybrid method is bad. She is confusing when she decides to try and be helpful. I thought she wrote the problems but she can't solve them.

I am really disappointed with the class and the "teacher". Others have said she is no help. They are right. Any explanations are confusing and it seems that she back tracks to correct errors. I am not going to register for CH 232 now. I will wait until the summer and take someone else. Boo.

Having Margie has been bad. She is no help because she doesn't answer questions clearly. I can hear her words but I don't know what she is saying. CHEM 231 is really a bad class.

The hybrid class is terrible. She expects you to learn the information on your own. Then when you have a question, they give you a tiny hint that doesn't help. Hard to do well in the class, when you teach yourself and then they don't explain how to do it when you have questions. You can only teach yourself so much on a topic you know nothing about.

I don't know what's worse. Margie or the class. They are both painful. She is not helpful and rather rude. I have asked good questions and she can not answer them. She doesn't teach or help. I think I am more confused than I was in high school chem. This is bad.

No teaching skills. I agree that she is rather rude but think she is really mean. No help in a class where I need help.

I hated her and the class too. Stay clear of this one.

Yes, she is a terrible teacher. Stay away from this rude person. No ability to teach. No ability to explain chemistry. No ability to be helpful. Dumb class. I learned everything in this class in high school with a better teacher.

BAD teacher, bad person. This is the second Hybrid class at OSU and the first one in SOC was awesome. I loved going and working with my groups. CH 231 stunk. She makes it boring, she is no help, her problems are bad. OSU is a mixed bag. She is on the bad side.

I'm stuck with her and I am sad. This is a really bad experience and she is not a teacher. Using lame textbook questions in class and not helping is worthless. 7 more weeks and counting down.

Actually, Margie is rude and mean. Watch her interact with her favorite students and dis others. She is worhtless. The TAs ARE far more helpful. They care. Who wrote the May 7 review of her? Probably Margie herself. "Teaching Philosophy" "higher grades" No! Confusing times Yes!

Doesn't allow note card on exams when other chemistry class do, she had us memorize all the orbitals and vesper theory (which was not too bad) but now expects us to remember all of that plus the solubility chart for the final. Only gives equations on the cover sheet and periodic table. This class is horrible.

This teacher is a joke. Let me define teacher for you. Someone who TEACHES you. She does not do this. She treats you like your stupid. Doesn't do her job. Never take her class. I redid chemistry and did worse when I took it with her. She takes a whole class to go over MAYBE 2 problems before a test. And that won't even by on the test. GET OUT NOW

I actually pray for Margie every night that she will become a better teacher. I think that it is really sad that students are failing tests because the material is not properly taught. I honestly don't think that she knows how to do chemistry.

Margie Haak is honestly the worst professor I have ever had. She does not teach, and when you ask for help she is condescending and extremely rude. Be prepared to teach yourself because Margie is worthless. You are automatically set up to fail. She's terrible and needs to learn how to TEACH. Avoid her and her classes like your life depends on it!

I chose inspirational, because Margie inspired me to NEVER BE LIKE HER. She is a terrible teacher and does nothing for you. You might as well be handed a book and a week later be handed a midterm. That would actually be better than her teaching. Oh and if you want help jokes on you, the word help isn't in her vocab and frankly idk if chemistry is

You will see why this class is hilarious when you receive your first midterm grade.

Worst teacher ever! Rude and doesn't care whether or not you pass. Only there for those that know what to do. Literally the worst. Do not recommend her to anyone!

She is rude to students and does not want to help you. She grades way too hard and gives way too little partial credit on the written exams. For example, I have the complete setup and execution on an exam problem, with some simple math error in between, but because the final answer is off I only receive 1 point out of 8. Bad and rude teacher.

If you want to pay a few hundred dollars to teach yourself chemistry take the hybrid course.

Awful professor. And so rude. I've had a few poor professors, but she is by far the worst. I went into the first midterm so confident. After looking at the first page, I was in shock. Some of the problems I had never even seen anything similar before. So I thought, since it was so hard and all open-ended, it must be graded easily. Not at all.

I took her online course and I have to say that her class was one of the toughest chem classes I have taken. The mastering chemistry is somewhat helpful but takes waaay too long and is not helpful enough if you don't understand a concept. The professor does not respond to e-mails quickly. Expect to teach yourself. Final was doable if u usestudyguid

It's clear that she knows her chemistry however she is a very tough grader and will usually leave you with more questions than you started with. Plan to read out of the textbook. Exams are typically all open ended will rarely give partial credit. She allows you to turn in your exam for a regrade but will not give points back.

The teacher was extremely rude. I had to drive three hours to get proctored over a holiday. She doesn't make the midterm or final anything like the materials online or in the book. There is also no study guide. No notes are allowed. This is the hardest class I've ever taken simply because the teacher is rude and tests are nothing like the class.

She is by far the worst professor I have ever had. She does not teach you anything and puts you down when you try and ask for help. Her "Philosophy" on teaching makes no sense and her tests are straight from hell. Like I'm not kidding, the average was 40% on the first midterm. DO NOT take her class.

Margie Haak is the worst chemistry professor I have ever had. She's been pushing the hybrid style of teaching in the chem department and says that it's more beneficial than traditional teaching. That was not the case in my class, most people failed because she was too lazy to actually teach. She'd rather post a lecture video and you teach yourself.

Haak believes in flipped classrooms. She teaches the bare minimum and expects the deepest understanding. Her tests are too long for the time given because her expectations are insane. If you struggle with chemistry or flipped classrooms, DO NOT take the Hybrid course. Recitation is the most helpful part, which the Hybrid does not have.

She seems to have given up on students in general. Sounds bored in lectures. Hands out worksheets in class instead of teaching. Doesn't seem very happy in general.

Doesn't really have any personal investment in her student. She doesn't seem like she even wants to teach, she's just there selfishly with no care for others.

She must know shes this bad right... I genuinely think shes given up on teaching and I dont understand why my tuition is going towards her salary. I understand her vision but it might be best for her to work behind the scenes because she seems to have lost any desire to actually teach.

Not a great teacher. She gives her lectures as videos and during lecture you do a worksheet. Also the lecture videos are followed by quizzes. Also, every week theres a Wednesday quiz thats online. She unlocks it at 6:00 PM and you must complete it by 11:59 PM. I DONT RECOMEND YOU TAKE HER CLASS.

Be prepared to watch confusing lecture videos every day before class along with a quiz. Then do worksheets in lecture. The tests are extremely hard, her class average on the midterm was a 40. She makes everything harder than it should be. I would give a 0 but the lowest I can rank her as is a 1.

Would never take again. Not understanding and hard class!

if She is the only instructor for the term and you really need to take it, then go for it and good luck. Otherwise, wait for the next term to have a better instructor.

I took the hybrid course she co-taught with Michael Burand last term and I was perhaps the most frustrating college class I have taken. Gen-Chem is hard to grasp when you have never taken It before, and have unresponsive, unhelpful profs it gets even harder. Never lectured, only had dated videos that barely scratched the surface of the material.

I took this class in person and expected to have lecture during scheduled lecture time, recitation during scheduled recitation time, and lab at scheduled lab time. Little did I know that I would have an hour of lecture video to watch the night before every class, the 300 person lectures would be treated as recitation, and recitation was useless.

During lecture, we did worksheets that were not graded, but used to take attendance so couldn't miss. Had hours of homework every night because instead of lecturing during class, she sent us hour long outdated videos to watch before class. Not very approachable if you have questions, which makes it harder for those who have never taken chem before.

The class should be easy, but if you take it with this professor, it'll be so hard.

I took this class in hopes of it being a better lecture style class. I was so wrong, this is the worst class I have ever taken in my entire life. You go to class and have to do worksheets and if you don't know how, oh well. She doesn't respond to emails, and offers no practice exams. The whole class for the past two midterms had and average of 55%

Worst teacher I've ever had. The least understanding person I've ever met, doesn't sympathize with students. She has one teaching style and won't adapt to different learning styles. The average on her tests were in the 50s compared to other classes in the 70s. No lecture during class time, minimal help when answering questions as well as confusing.

Majority of your grade is based on your exam and final. Not very active in teaching. Seems that her content is taken from other professors and not her own. Her flipped style teaching is not very effective here. Keep that style of teaching in the humanities.

This was the most difficult class I have EVER taken in my life. Every week I would be in a constant state of panic trying to keep up with the course load. I ended up having to watch many youtube videos to even BEGIN to understand the content. The in-class work is just a frustrating rec class.

Worst professor I have ever had. She literally does not teach you anything and when you ask her questions she just says "umm that's a good question" and then just walks away. I would strongly recommend you do not take this class with her.

No assistance at all in the online class. Email response is minimum. There aren't clear videos for lecture, just a smattering of random videos of other professors teaching material. Half the modules didn't come with lecture videos, just worksheets. Entire grade is based on the midterm and final, which are all open ended. No Notecard.

Avoid if you can. Minimal help during class and even less outside of it. The class is graded on a heavy curve due to the overall average test scores in the 40's and 50's.

The responses in terms of questions from the homework or tests, she only says not quite and doesn't really clarify how to do the procedure.

Avoid at all costs. The content consists of vague and incomplete online videos with no actual instruction whatsoever. When approached with questions and concerns, she was blatantly rude and demeaning. This class and this professor are, by far, the worst I've ever encountered.

DO NOT CHOOSE this freaking class! that lady taught absolute nothing in the class and gives tons of HW. she is the worst professor i ever met. All my group member work really hard on this course but only can barely pass this class.

Communication (when she actually responds) is awful and honestly disrespectful. I understand that going online was out of her hands, but she still makes no effort to adapt to the current circumstances and is very flippant when students ask for help. Her study guides are copy/pasted learning objectives that only increase confusion for students.

The only time I learned in this class was during recitation from our TA... her lectures were alright but we had a quiz before every class, a quiz on Wednesday, 2-3 chem 101 assignments due on Sunday, and more... She never replied to my emails when I asked for help, and there was never enough time on the exams for the amount of problems we had to do

PLEASE AVOID GETTING INTO HER CLASS. She gives does not care at all about the success of her students - honestly, I don't understand why she is teaching. She doesn't answer ANY emails (seriously, emailing her is no use) and she gives vague advice. I learned more from going to the Mole Hole than a minute in her class. Avoid her. Thank me later.

Her online course sucks. She offers us no resources or help during class. The course load is hard to keep track of and She offers minimal help and feedback. She lets the TA doing everything during class and practically doesnt teach. I hope OSU realizes how horrible she is.

I had a lot of tech issues and you'd think with online school she'd be understanding right? Think again. She could care less and if you get even 0.1 off of the correct answer she doesn't care if you basically got it right so I would fail tests I should've passed. Im an A/B student and I barely passed this class so if you can, don't take her class.

I am usually an A or B student, I busted my tail in my chemistry class and barely escaped with a C-. I emailed her multiple times asking if she could recommend a tutor a few weeks before the final and she never answered me. If you take this class, make sure all your other classes are EASY, because chem 231 will take up just about all of your time.

I could never get Haak to respond to an email UNLESS you also cc another chem professor teaching the same course. I took CH 121 in preparation for this course, so I was mostly rereading material in the textbook. I knew the material already, and this class would confuse me and I'd no longer understand.I'd fail if I hadn't taken 121. Pretty careless.

she is easily the worst professor I have ever had. She is bad all around both as a person AND as a professor. It's honestly concerning to me how horrible she is on all aspects. She's relentless, unsympathetic, extremely rude, and uncaring towards her students. Save yourself and avoid Margie at all costs.

she sucks

Get ready to teach yourself everything. Be sure you're ready for midterms and big tests to have problems that were never done before in past assignments. I hope classes are different in person because nothing of value came from going to classes, join class, get into breakout rooms, and have students teach each other.

literally the worst professor i've encountered. she was incredibly unforgiving of any mistakes made, difficult to get ahold of, and overall just unhelpful when asking questions outside of class. did not directly teach a single thing, the class is basically self-taught. would rather drop out than take her class again.

Terrible teacher, never take her classes. Doesnt know how to efficiently use class time, doesnt know how to explain concepts well, overall 0/10

She is jaded, and mean. She doesn't care much for her students, they are not why she is there. Doesn't matter what is going on in your life, if it isn't by the syllabus Chem, its a no. She can be argued down-don't let her scare you.

There are no actual lectures in the entire 23x series, and Margie doesn't actually teach you. The lecture videos that she makes, and you have to watch are obviously old and you are pretty much learning everything on your own time, yet you still have to go to class for participation points. The class is formatted poorly and she just isn't the best.

SHE IS THE WORST!! This chemistry class is based on watching videos, which was fine last term when I had Siler because she actually taught. All Margie does is give worksheets, sit at her desk all period, and make people present questions. SHE NEVER TEACHES!! If she does help, she will give weird questions and make it seem like you are wrong

The General chemistry sequence is terrible. There are no lectures, just videos from 2014 you watch. The lecture time is allotted for group worksheets which are either impossible or too easy. The worst part of this course is the tests. The tests are IQ tests, relying more on your logical abilities than actual content. Get ready to study a lot.

Top 1 worst professors of all time

Nightmare.

Worst class ever taken.

She doesn't teach. The chemistry program is set up for failure. In class attendance is required. Hybrid wastes students time+effort. The lecture itself is a joke, it is group work on reused worksheets that should be supplemental practice to a lecture. The "lectures" are pre-recorded videos that you have to watch before class, recorded years ago.

She was so unhelpful and condescending that I genuinely hated going to a class that I had a decent understanding of from High School chemistry. Avoid at all costs.

The exams and quizzes were so difficult and we were often supposed to know things we weren't taught. Absolutely no lecture except watching videos before class to take notes. Horrible at answering questions, often would reply with a different question that just made things more confusing rather than just answering the question.

Margaret Haak's course was very unorganized. As an Engineer, I found the lab to be useless, since it seemed like busy work. For a one-credit course, I spent way too much time each week. My classmates always had to email her since there would be assignments due, but they were not published.

careless lol

If you learn gen chem from high school, you may still do well in this class. But do not take if you know nothing, unless you are good independent learner. Consider how little the information in the video. You have to know gen chem well if you are chem major and need to apply these knowledge in next 3 years.

Made me cry would not recommend

The professor does not teach during lecture but lecture is still mandatory so you just go there to work on a worksheet. Learning is only done via videos and textbook so if that works for you, then great.

I highly regret taking this class with Dr. Haak. Everything is online, no late work is accepted under any circumstances, and my exams were misgraded multiple times. Just save yourself a headache and go with a different professor.

So utterly unhelpful. Gave up after first month. I genuinely have never spoken to her once and instead had to fight to talk to TA's who gave me different ways of doing things. The professors do not teach and just upload videos from like 2001.

Never in my life have I had such a horrible professor that when they were talking to me I could only think about breaking down crying and switching my major. She is so unhelpful that I would rather memorize the entire textbook than watch another one of her stupid videos. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH THIS PROFESSOR!

I've never met such a horrendous chemistry prof.... horrible at teaching, horrible at grading, horrible at feedback!! Don't expect an email back either, no wonder all the other chemistry teachers hate her.

Chemistry is really cool but Margie Haak makes me want to put myself in a blender. No idea how to grade tests and refuses to let other professors help. She wants specific answers to open-ended questions but you dont know until she gives you a 0. Want to try and get a regrade request? Yeah good luck on that buddy she'll just take off more points.

I took CH221 and CH222 with Dr. Weiss and Dr. Burand, respectively, and they both taught the class the way all other chem profs did, using the same worksheets, exams, and lecture material. However, Margie seems to be exempt from any rules that regulate the other profs and uses her own material, which is much, much harder. Entirely unfair, DONT TAKE

Abysmal, she taught nearly nothing of what was in the textbook or on the exams, constantly ignored student concern or feedback, and allegedly demanded the exams be more difficult to have a lower pass rate for the class.

Most of the lecture periods will consist of a worksheet, with the vast majority of assistance being provided by the TAs. Lecture and test content differs fairly often from the textbook and homework. Will be lots of reviewing videos.

You are teaching yourself, there is no in class lecture. It is just working with your group on a worksheet, which is helpful, but the "lessons" are pre class assigned videos where you can come to class with questions. It's easy to fall behind on the concepts but also somewhat easy/okay to catch up on them.

You are teaching yourself the material in this class due to the "hybrid" setup. Homework is extensive, and feedback is little to nonexistent. Midterms and finals were very long. I had to leave multiple questions unanswered because I ran out of time.

Hybrid video lectures, unclear expectations, and exams that didn't reflect homework or class examples. Questions were ignored, feedback was minimal & horrible professor. The course felt unnecessarily stressful and poorly supported for a core chemistry class. Lots of written work on your exams, lots of mastering chem homework, late/no email replies!

Awful grader, tests had surprise content we were not taught and the lectures were bad. Stay away if possible.