An bad prof. DO NOT TAKE! He gets pleasure out of showing off how much he knows about a subject he has studied most of his life to people who never have.

Very Goofy teacher... Gets so into explaining things that i dont even know if he understands whats goin on... 6'10 bundle of ADHD energy and couldnt anwser a question if he had to.

A VERY VERY BAD TEACHER! I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY HE IS STILL TEACHING. HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TEACH AND HE IS OFTEN OFF THE SUBJECT EVERYTIME YOU ASK HIM QUESTIONS! DO NOT TAKE HIM IF YOU WANT A GOOD GRADE!!!!

Reads directly from book, explains nothing. When you ask for help he pushes you away. Yoo smart to be teaching.

Very random, when you ask him a question he will ramble for 30 minutes and leave you with your question unanswered reads straight from the book so going to class is useless

If you take Balanda and you don't already know the subject you're done for. Very rude, won't lift a finger to help you so don't ask any favors. Most awful teacher I have ever had.

He digresses too much during lecture.. he's impossible to follow.

A quote from Professor Asmond-" If you wana know what time it is ask me, if you wana know how to build the clock ask Balanda." this guy cant answer questions but people just dont study. Hes really not that bad.

friendly guy, but most of the time I don't think he knows what the hell he's talking about

Hes hard as hell. Out to fail everyone, and everyones good comments are BS, you can work hard, he only passes a few students, to only say not everyone fails,(thats BS) Have fun in Hell, with Satan students, if you take this course!P.S, Don't cry loudly!

HORRIBLE!!!!!

He is smart, but intelligent people cannot teach!Yes, he sucks!!! Yes, a very nice person if you catch him at the right time. otherwise, watch out! he'll just make you feel soooo stupid..and then apolgize!

Worst Teacher I have ever had in my life... Please dont take him for any class. He doesnt know how to teach!!. Assumes that his students know everything (not knowing tht they r comin to school to learn)

worst lab teacher ever, he expects you to know everything and when you don't he won't help

Ok so all I had him for was lab, and it made that the worst prat of my day. I could not stand the guy. If you ask him a question he goes into a 20minute spiel about something totally irrelevant and then never answers what you ask. The guy is impossible.

Absolutely horrible! He was a nice enough guy, but couldn't teach to save his life! The ongoing joke was that he got his degree from Sally Struthers.

What an ****. If you have this teacher, I feel your pain.

A terrible teacher. He is totally not prepared for class. He teaches above the students, not to the students! He takes is tests from the book, why not be creative and make up your own? Do not take him!

He seems to be a nice guy, but he doesn't explain what he is teaching. He just shows a bunch of reactions and expects you to understand why he did it that way. It's rough, but the book will teach it to you if you read each chapter word for word. Avoid if possible, otherwise, be ready to teach yourself!

This class had been a huge disappointment. He doesn't actually teach. He just shows a bunch of reactions and expects you to get it. His tests are extremely hard and covers material that hasn't been taught, w/o informing us it will be on there. I feel like I completely wasted my money. Avoid at all costs, unless you like teaching yourself...

Where to being!? Balanda is interesting, to say the least. And not in a good way. His exams are easy, only because you can memorize the questions and answers to his previous exams. If you read the book on your own and do the OWL homework, you should be fine. Lab is ridiculously long, found my self spending 3 hours every week, and sometimes even 4!

He is the worst professor I've ever had at fsu. Completely unorganized and unprepared for classes. You can never tell you your grade. It was impossible to tell when anything was due until the day of. Avoid! If I could rate him a 0 I would

Dr. Balanda is a terrible lecturer. Consistently off topic and has serious issues keeping to t syllabus. He also is unreceptive to student feed back and considers himself God in his own classroom, that is to say, anything he says, goes. He does not feel that his syllabus is a contract with his students. He does not respond to e-mail or phone.

Hands down one of the worst professors I've had at Ferris State. His lectures are all over the place, he never stays on topic. During his lectures he jumps from topic to topic, its hard to follow. Also he assigns homework assignments on material he didnt teach. Also the hw assignments are nothing like his exams so its pointless. Avoid Balanda!!

All learning is done online and through self-teaching. Unclear about test material, which doesn't relate to homework. I would not recommend this professor at all, to anyone if they have the choice. He's very passionate about this subject, but definitely should not be teaching beginners.

This guy talks to the students as if they all have doctorates in chemistry too. My whole class learned nothing! When we advanced to the next chem class that professor had to basically teach us what we should have learned in Balanda's class. His performance was brought up to our dean it was so bad

This class is terrible. I have less than a nah left and I am about ready to cry. He is terrible. He talks to us like we are chemists and he doesn't explain things at all. And his tests are crap. I am barely sliding by and I and my a straight A student.

This class was to first time I was ever exposed to organic chemistry so I really had no idea what I was in for. He lectured as if everyone was at his level and made class very hard to comprehend. Study old tests because the questions are the same just changed up a bit on what chemical is used. 100% would not recommend

Hes a terrible professor and no idea what he is teaching.

This has nothing to do with Balanda as a person. His teaching style is mayhem. He does lectures at home and homework in class and you basically have to teach yourself everything. DO NOT take him if you can avoid it. He is a great guy outside of the class, but you will not learn anything in his class.

He teaches as though everyone has a background in chemistry although this is a course meant to be your basic chemistry not every one had it in high school. To add to that he never directly answers questions and gets distracted way too easily. He refuses to teach the class himself and would rather make everyone do it online.

He's the absolute WORST professor I've ever had. I signed up for a lecture-based course and he made his practically all online. His "lectures" are him showing you one way and telling you never to do any other way, not even the way the book tells you, then never teaches it again. Then he gets mad that everyone gets low grades and blames his students

Dr. Balanda forces students to do online learning even though they didnt sign up for it. He also doesnt lecture at all he basically does the same thing an SLA instructor is supposed to do, I.e. he just answers clarifying questions and gives you a worksheet to complete each class period. You learn more in SLA than in his class.

Dr Balanda was HORRIBLE. You're going to teach yourself everything. He doesn't give examples for algebraic problems and then when he ask for help, he rambles about how you should know it and doesn't answer you. I took a Chem 103 course but he taught it at a higher level and expected you to have the background knowledge that 1st years wouldnt

expects that everyone already knows how to do chemistry coming into his class. makes you do all of the lectures and reading on your own so you come to class to do a worksheet and ask questions. i hated every second of it.

This man was the most infuriating person I have ever met. Nearly every student felt like they were failing and most likely would have without SLA and being online full time after corona so they could cheat. He is insanely unhelpful and beyond rude. He thinks that every student knows orgo. SWITCH OUT OF HIS CLASS!!!

Dr. Balanda has to be the laziest and most arrogant professor I have met. For Chem 103 he expects students to teach themselves. He doesnt offer any lectures, when you do ask for help he talks down to you. Avoid taking his classes if possible. He doesnt do anything to actually teach you and will ignore you if you dont work his way.

I changed my major after this professor because the idea of having to take him again made me dread my life . He was the least helpful, condescending , irritating professor I have ever had. He will not help you. He will never help you, only look down to you. Please never take his labs if given the chance. You wont learn anything I promise.

For this being the easiest chemistry class Ferris has to offer, this professor makes it as difficult as possible. He clearly doesn't know his limits and doesn't know how to teach in simple terms. He over complicates every concept, so I usually drown out his lectures. An intelligent man, but very self-conceited and in his own world.

I would advise not taking this class. You have to learn everything outside of class on your own. Class time is spent doing an assignment and makes it impossible to listen to him talk. Have to learn everything on top of lab and SLA if required is too much for a 100 level class. Don't take this class.

Flipped classes work for some teachers. Obviously not for Balanda, I've had middle school teachers better than this dude. Makes sense too because his grade average is so low Ferris tacked on a 5:00PM SLA where you basically re-learn everything from that class day, essentially taking the same class twice. DO NOT SIGN FOR THIS CLASS.

It is so hard to focus on the lectures during class because of the in class assignments given to you each lecture that are due after class. SLA is beneficial if required but you still need to learn outside of class as well.

WORST teacher for preparatory chemistry. Ferris added a tutoring course twice a week because his failure rate is so high. WebAssign homework's are light years ahead of what prep chem should look like. Even SLA instructors can't answer homework problems sometimes. Notes are impossible to take, as there's 40-50 question daily quizzes during lecture.

Mr. Balanda had a good few days at the beginning of the semester, but that didn't last long. I only spoke with him over email. I feel that every time I asked him for help, he talked down to me. He even personally recommended I withdraw from his class. As a freshman, that depleted the little motivation that I had to begin with.

Peter Balanda is a goofy dude. He's funny, but he definitely shouldn't be teaching. Outside of class, I've had some nice conversations with him. In class, he makes me feel like an absolute idiot, and sometimes he's rude when you don't understand something. The labs took 3+ hours some days because he doesn't get to the point. Really awful class.

Dr. Balanda, while a very interesting man outside of class, has a horrific teaching style. He expects you to do 60 question keypoints every single class period while he lectures, and expects you to teach yourself using old chemistry lectures.

Peter by no means is a bad person or friend to his students, he is really caring and does wish for us to do our absolute best. The problem with the course is not himself but his teaching style and test style. He goes off topic to much, and writes trick question on tests even if his average is low. If you have a choice take a different professor.