Michelle doesn't teach very often since she is mainly at Pitt for research. Her lacking of teaching experience definitely shows as she reads directly from the slides. The slides she gets come directly from the book so I would recommend reading the book first to determine if the lecture is worth attending. She WILL bore you to sleep. Avoid her.

Professor Morgan was rather dreadful. She was not accessible outside of class (answering 1/4 of my emails) and her lectures are just regurgitations of the book. I studied countless hours for the final and still failed, as did everyone I know. Her midterms were difficult and you would often lost points without being told why. Do not take!!

Doesn't post lecture notes online nor any example problems. Exams are unbelievable difficult with no study guides in advance. I ultimately switched classes because she obviously doesn't care whether her students pass or fail. She doesn't curve in the slightest, so if you fail, the curve won't save you.

It seems like she does not care about the grades that students get. Her exams were difficult and had low averages. Lectures were boring and you did not learn much that wasn't already in the textbook. I had a friend retake her again and failed a second time while I got an A with a different professor. Truly awful.

DO NOT take Dr. Morgan. Her lectures are dry and the examples she gives in class and for homework are much easier than her exams. She spends a lot of time on easy things and like 2 minutes on the hard concepts. She gave us a bonus assignment to do in 5 minutes while brushed over super important information that our quiz was on the next week.

Although Prof Morgan is a good person, her lecturing is boring and super dry. Her exams are jampacked with tough problems in a 50 minute block and she is currently pretty behind in class. I would not recommend this class if you haven't taken AP chem or if you aren't good at fighting against the clock during exams.

She is dry, doesn't curve til the end, and definitely doesn't really care about students nor does she lecture all too well. You'll be stuck self-studying any and all topics you're unfamiliar with. The only plus side is that she has your past exams scanned and uploaded so you can access them online. I recommend you try and find another professor.

Lectures are extremely boring and she basically just reads from the powerpoint. You could honestly just not go and read the slides she uploads and be fine. Even if you go she does not really explain things well.

Dr Morgan will preface the class like any other general subject class "This is not a weed out class, I want all of you to pass". This is a lie. She will post "practice exams", which are fairly manageable. But the exams are literally NOTHING like the actual exams. She wants to misguide you. Skip lecture and read the textbook, prepare to teach yrself

Dr. Morgan claims in the beginning of the class that it is not a weed out class, which is not true. You do not learn a thing in lecture, she reads off of the slides. The worksheets she gives you as practice are not comparable to the exams, and the homework is extremely difficult, if you take her be prepared to buy chegg...

Michelle Morgan, arguably the worst teacher I've ever had. I believe everyone is good at something, and for Dr. Morgan, that something is not teaching. Her lectures consist of monotone slide reading and rehearsed jokes that receive no reaction. Tests are fair even though I rely on my knowledge from HS chemistry. Never related material to real life!

Attending Morgan's lectures is an utter waste of time. She reads off of the slides (which aren't useful in the first place) and then uses the chalk board to draw pointless pictures that add nothing insightful. She will make simple concepts sound way more confusing than what they are and her tests are way too difficult for what she teaches.

Dr. Morgan should not be teaching- her lectures are built to put students to sleep and completely useless. I used to love chemistry and she made it one of the hardest things I've done in my life. She assigns ridiculously difficult homework and the exams do not match what she "teaches" in class. Just teach it to yourself.

Dr. Morgans class is an utter and complete waste of time. Her lectures are dreadful and her exams do don represent what she gives for homework or the examples she showcases in class. Would be much better off trying to teach yourself chemistry than allowing her to teach you. What youre given for practice than what youre given on exams dont match.

Dr. Morgans lectures are incredibly boring and her Sapling homework will teach you more than she will. She also goes so slow that she had to squeeze an entire chapter into the last 20 minutes of the semester. She then made it take up the majority of the final and added a question (worth 5% of the exam) that was only seen in the OPTIONAL homework.

All lectures are is Morgan reading off the slides. She covers way too much material in a lecture and doesn't explain concepts well. There were supposed to be multiple in class activities worth bonus points; there were two and one was done outside of lecture. Homeworks are way too long, though they are somewhat relevant to exam questions.

Lots of bad professors in the Chem department at Pitt. You'll be stuck self-studying a lot of the material. Class is passable if you engage yourself in homework and recitations. She posts all of her lectures online (she basically just reads off of them during class).

Just horrible. Not a single care about the success of her students

Dr. Morgan teaches directly from the textbook and absolutely nothing else. There are significant changes in difficulty from the book problems, quizzes, and exams. Often doesn't assign any book problems. Got A's in all previous chemistry classes but struggled immensely with Morgan because of how she constructs exams. Lectures are VERY dry.

Dr. Morgan's exams are much more difficult than the practice problems and lecture examples. I would study for hours with the material she had provided to us and still get a poor grade on the exams. It felt like no matter what I did, I would never pass her exams. Also, she assigns an absurd amount of Sapling problems. They took me forever.

Horrible "teacher". You don't learn anything by going to class. You have to teach yourself everything. She will try to teach you the first couple steps of solving problems and then expect you to know everything without teaching you. NO help prior to exams which are impossible. Worst class I've ever taken.

Was diagnosed with COVID-19 and emailed her asking how my condition would affect me in the course, and she never replied to my email. Very discouraging. Also would simply read off the slides and would spend an unnecessary amount of time on easy topics and not enough on the hard ones. Midterms had too many questions to be completed in 50 mins.

Not a good teacher at all. Never replies to emails and never tells us what is on the test. Still has not replied to my email from the end of January. She just does the bare minimum and doesnt seem to care about actually helping her students learn.

I currently have her for a nursing chem credit. she simply reads the powerpoint slides and calls that teaching. her most recent test had an average of 77 and my score of 79 was in the high range. it is more than halfway through the semester and the only grades she has in are the exam grades so we have no idea what our actual grades are

Ugh. Her lectures are the most boring part of my week. Somehow she still struggles with basic zoom concepts after 2 semesters of online learning. Do yourself a favor and just jot down the learning concepts and self-teach. You'll tear out less hair that way. STUDY FOR TESTS!!!!!!

One of the worst professors I've ever had. She rarely responds to emails and when she does, it is usually very late and very vague. Confusing lectures and struggles with the simple online learning concepts that she really should know by now. Also refuses to curve exams and offers no extra credit or help.

as a student who studies non-stop and loved previous chem classes, im failing with Morgan. She doesn't know how to teach, she just makes random statements that will make no sense to you if you have no chem experience. the majority of your grade is on tests that are written badly and graded harshly. don't even try to email her, she won't repsond.

Had her for honors gen chem 1 lab. Gave us ridiculously long, monotonous lab reports (6-8 pages a week) compared to what non honors had. Graded reports super late so we didn't know the mistakes from each report and how to fix them. She also tells us how to do something but would mark it wrong. Her lab is the reason I did not take honors gen chem 2.

Pleasant person. But there were so many things she could've done to make a hard class marginally easier, and she did none of them. Refused to record lectures, did not post past exams, couldn't bother to host review. Self-teaching is necessary, but not too hard if you do the homework problems, since class is reading off slides and doing problems.

An awful class that I had to withdraw from just because I could not understand anything she taught and her exams were 3x harder than the homework. Will retake class. One exam question was a combination of 3-4 homework problems that took your time. Majority of the class did not get half of the first exam done. Not clear. Her "exam curve" was only 2%

This class will ruin your GPA. Her lectures do not include any math examples, and her tests are all math. You will not understand how to do any of her test problems, as they are so wildly different from any homework or quizzes. If you cannot teach yourself at a high level, do not take this class.

She is the worst professor I have ever taken in my life. She can't teach, or grade on time, extremely disorganized, and doesn't even curve. The averages of the tests were high 50's and she refuses to curve or give us any feedback. I have lost half of my hair from ripping it out dealing with her horrendous teaching and untimely graded. DONT TAKE HER

Awful. Takes weeks to grade and is an extremely harsh grader. Exams are extremely difficult and she doesnt provide any similar practice problems. Blames us when 90% of the class gets the same question wrong. Will not answer emails. Gives an excessive amount of busy work thats worth few points. Most disorganized professor Ive ever had.

Never written a review here before but she's compelled me to do so. Aside from her dry lectures which are essentially just reading off slides, her gradings a joke. Promised to grade exams in a week but for both she repeatedly came up with any random excuse as to why it wasnt graded. Doesnt answer emails. Im prob overreacting but she pisses me off.

INSANE! Ridiculous that she is very nice but cannot teach. Impossible to pass the exams, doesn't curve even when entire class is struggling. Study insane amount of hours. Just defeated. Why would anyone take this professor considering the reviews... because they changed the professor at the last minute. Ruins GPA.

Getting a therapist this summer!

I've never cried over a class before but Morgan has singlehandedly managed to ruin my GPA. I don't know what I got on the final yet but it was impossible and I swear I failed. Take literally anyone other than her, i'd give her a 0 if I could

Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss She takes the gaslight and runs with it!

She literally makes my blood boil. She only teaches in rhetorical questions and run-on sentences which doesnt help students understand the material at all,and and gaslighted us into getting our exam grades back. I had to BEG her in an email to get my exam score back which I shouldnt have to as a student. Avoid her at all cost.

She is the worst. Extremely disorganized, and straight up lies to students about what she expects us to know for exams and about when we will expect grades for tests to be returned. Has zero care in the world for any of us. Don't take her.

Dr. Morgan was very nice but was so unorganized. She took several weeks to give back grades for exams, and would never post them when she said she would. She also never answers emails. Her exam questions are extremely difficult and often don't reflect the main concepts that were gone over in lecture. Don't take her!!

SO BAD i would give her a zero. but that's not possible. so i give her a 1.

God I would've had a 3.98 this semester if it wasn't for Morgan. She's genuinely the worst professor I've had. She doesn't respond to email, refused to curve even after the avg for the first exam was a 61 (with 5 bonus points) and a 70 smth (with 6 bonus points) on the second one. Avoid at all costs

I was left discouraged throughout this class. Was instructed to study materials for exam, which ended up being a small portion. After the exams I felt confused since we were never taught how to attempt many problems. However, although I did not have the best of luck in this class, if you took AP Chem in HS you should have a better understanding.

I've never gotten a D in a class before, which speaks for itself. Her class is hard because there's very little room to mess up, with a total of only 3 exams including the final. I was struggling throughout the semester and emailed her for help and accommodations for disability, which she never replied to. Disheartening honestly :(

Unbelievably bad. Her lectures were dry, disorganized and she is awful at communicating even simple concepts. Her exams are wildly difficult in comparison to the lectures, quizzes, and practice problems. Even with AP chem background this was hands down the worst, most difficult class I've taken. Cannot stress it enough - do NOT take Dr. Morgan.

Shelly really does not deserve to have a teaching spot at this University. She is a very sweet woman but a horrible professor. Very inaccessible and doesn't seem to care about students understanding of the material. This is the lowest grade I have ever gotten in a class and it is not because of a lack of hard work. Take literally anybody else.

Do not take Dr. Morgan. She is incredibly inaccessible as she rarely responds to emails throughout the term + does not record lectures. She takes 2+weeks to give back exam grades (lying about when they will be out throughout those 2 weeks)+the exams (esp the final) were types of problems we never went over in class. Pls save ur GPA+$$+avoid her.

TERRIBLE!! Her tests were much harder than what she taught. Avoid taking her at all costs.

The exams made up about 42/43% of the course grade (had very low averages), and they were exponentially harder than the homework, textbook examples, or anything done in class. After extensive writing in hopes of being able to pass the class with a C (needed for my major), I got no response. Definitely felt like the class was not cared for.

Michelle was probably the worst professor I have ever had. Her lectures and practice problems were nothing compared to the exams. I could do all the practice problems but managed to fail the exams. The final had several things I had never seen before in her teaching. She is difficult to reach outside of class. Good luck if you get stuck with her.

She clearly knows the material and is excellent at explaining concepts if you stop in her office hour. BUT she is EXTREMELY unreliable when it comes to time-related tasks such as grading, publishing material, and exam prep. Her exams vary in difficulty and can be challenging if you don't literally study everything.

Dr. Morgan is a very sweet person (she would let us have sports/music on projector while doing lab!), but she is an awful lab instructor. Her lab is the main reason I am not taking HGC 2. We still have 5+ reports to get graded and she grades very harshly, taking off points for the tiniest of errors. I am assuming she is similar for GC 2, so beware.

disorganized. tests were hard (tho they did relate to the achieve hws) but the final was horribly brutal. our 2 exam avgs were Fs (61 and 66). she said she would curve the final if necessary. she never released the final exam avg but i asked via email and she said it was a C (which i feel like was impossible given its brutality). no clear grading.

She's a nice professor, very chill. However, labs were disorganized. She didn't finish grading the labs until like 4 days after we took the final exam. She's a tough grader on labs that you spend hours doing, and you can't even improve through the semester since she doesn't grade them in a timely manner. Don't do it if you're premed.

She just read off the slides. She rarely did any examples in class, you basically have to teach yourself everything. She never answers her emails and the TAs will be the only reason you survive unless you're good at teaching yourself everything.

Morgan Lectures are not good, I would just do other work during them. However her test are pretty fair and easy. You will do well on test and in her class by doing the hw and doing the problems in the textbook. you dont have to read the text book just do the example problems

This is the worst class ive ever taken

Doesn't teach. Makes no sense. Her tests are impossible and her lectures do not help at all. Do not take her class.

worst professor ever. she doesn't respond to emails and her only practice is the aleks and that barely helps. sometimes she will give practice assignments but they're nothing like the test.

Her lectures are unbearably boring. She explains everything very poorly and does so in the most mind numbingly bland way possible. And then her tests are unnecessarily hard, and she mocks the class about making the test easier with no intention of doing so. Horrible.

Do not take her for Chem 2 if you have the choice. The very few example problems she gives are nothing like exams, and she can not lecture. You are better off learning everything by yourself or quite literally guessing on exams in some cases. Please avoid this class.

Lectures do not help. Shes nice but dont be fooled her exams r so difficult. Aleks does not help at all. Does not communicate thru emails!! Literally will be teaching urself the material all semester long lol... u think u know what ur doing until u take the exam and fail. Exams r so time consuming, sometimes I could barely finish them on time

Such a lovely lady, but my god, is she terrible at teaching. Her lectures are nearly impossible to pay attention to and rarely structured well. A lot of the chemistry professors at Pitt are not the best, but do yourself a favor and do not take Michelle Morgan.

Do not take her class

teaching style is awful, exams are extremely hard and lecture based, she uses aleks as a homework which is not helpful and just extra work

This is the single worst professor I've had in my entire life. She gives practice worksheets but the problems are nothing like what she gives you on the tests. Tests are basically impossible no matter how much you study and she is an awful lecturer. I only started getting better grades when I stopped going to class and taught myself. Avoid!!!

do not take this class. Most lectures are her just reading slides that dont explain anything that is necessary to pass. Barely any practice problems/ recourses to study with. And she grades harshly, its also due to the tests being impossible. Put in a lot of time and go to office hours if you take this class, you will need it

Dr. Morgan is a really nice and sweet professor, however, lectures were not helpful and her tests (the major issue with her class) were horrible because there was a very limited number of practice problems that properly prepared you, grading was harsh and horribly inconsistent, and there were constant errors in the answer key. Would not recommend.

do not take this class. so much homework that does not help with content at all. she is inaccessible and does not respond to emails and makes the class much harder than it needs to be. the only reason i did not completely fail all of her exams was due to crambetter which helped me to understand the material better than she could teach it

DO NOT TAKE her lectures put you to sleep, and she gives you very less practice problems, which are easy, but then throws curveballs during the exam. Her average was in the 60s for midterms. CHEM 0120 is hard as it is skip her.

Dr. Morgan is a kind person, however if you are trying to balance this with any other science class like Bio, you can't. She over complicates material, her practice problems aren't similar to the exams, and she is a heavy lecturer. I would avoid taking her at all costs if you're a premed student.

class average of 60% on exams and somehow dr. morgan thinks this is normal & does nothing to improve her teaching. avoid at all costs. nice teacher but absolutely terrible professor.

Midterms are impossible, lectures are uninformative, a lot of homework that does not correlate with the subject matter on the midterms, unresponsive to emails, needs an answer key in hand to answer her own midterm questions, and no accommodations for illnesses. On top of everything, she is just an unpleasant human to talk to. She tries to break you

SAVE YOURSELFthis woman brought me to my lowest pointShe rambles all lecture no demonstrations or practice and has no idea what she is teachingEvery single midterm exam was below-passing average and instead of curving she lets you drop one exam which is POINTLESS if you did not do good on any of them WILLNOT ANSWER EMAILS donteventry gives0practice

By far the most unorganized class I've taken. Heavily rely on the textbook; doesn't explain well in lecture. Some midterm questions she never talked about in class. You learn from the textbook or needed background knowledge. Average was 60% on tests, but no curve. Lets students drown because of poor teaching style. Take a different professor.

Went to all her office hours, talked to her after every class because it was the ONLY time the teacher was accessible as it took 3 days to answer her emails or never answered them.Thought her 50% averages on test were FINE.... but would purposely make the test a puzzle and only 50 minutes for questions she would take 7 minutes to answer for 1!!!