She sucks

She is awful. The tests are not given during class time so you have to make yourself available for whenever works for her. She gives polls during class that count towards your grade but its on information she has not taught yet and she doesn't give you a warning for when she is closing the question. Legit just don't take her class, she's the worst.

Please do not take this professor for CHEM335. It is so obvious she has no idea what she's doing. She doesn't teach, she just reads off slides. The class schedule is an absolute joke. Unless you NEED to take this class, I would highly recommend against it. One of the worst professors I've ever had.

Probably the worst professor I have ever come across at Bing. She just lectures like she is recording a Panopto video, she does not stop and ask if anyone has any questions (almost everyone is lost). She will give timed polls with NO warning of when she is ending it (and they count)! No clear grading criteria for participation or self-assessments.

Terrible communication. Doesn't tell us what is due or when it is due. Also is very difficult to understand. This course is 2 credits and more time-consuming than all of my other classes. She will tell us that she'll post the lectures online and then neglects to. In every aspect absolutely horrible- worst class I've ever taken.

The lab portion itself is fine, and should be the only portion of this class in my opinion. The lectures are useless, not applicable to the lab itself. Participation points are so unclear, tests are hard. Would probably do so much better in the class if there wasn't a lecture component. Supposed to be orgo LAB but is treated like orgo class itself

This is the most disorganized class I've ever taken. The actual lab portion was fine, most TAs are very helpful and know what they're doing. As for the rest of the class, it was a mess. Dr. Karugu does not answer questions during class. We have had assignments close before the listed due date with no warning. Students are constantly confused.

She needs to figure out how to organize her lectures. I found this class to be so disorganized and she would sometimes have an attitude towards students questions and concerns. Lab portion is fine, but in lecture she reads of slides and isnt very engaging with the class. There are two exams, focus on them the most. Workload is reasonable

Be prepared to be tested on things you never learned how to do.

Besides her being hard to understand she does not convey the material well. Once I went back through I realized certain things were not as difficult to understand as she made them seem. Our first test was 10000x harder than anything we've done in class and she knew we wouldn't be prepared for it, she gets loud and nasty with students concerns & Q's

My main criticism is she gets annoyed with students who ask questions. Her sections are always more than 10 slides behind in our required materials for tests and quizzes because she can't explain things clearly, or succinctly. Even the TA's feel bad for us. It's easier to read the textbook or watch office hour vids. Lecture is a waste of time.

Dr. Karugu is one of the worst professors I've had at Binghamton. She becomes very defensive during questions and is unreceptive. She does not listen to students concerns and can be rude to students who question answers on her quizzes. She acts as if she is trying to prove herself to students which means she is clearly not fit to be a professor.

Makes you feel dumb when you have questions For that reason alone they need to find someone else to teach this class. Asked her something IN OFFICE HOURS and she gave me major attitude. Lab is not bad its the tests she makes way harder than anything we do in lecture, whole class is lost the whole time and gets ridiculed for asking-- no way to learn

Labs are not bad, it's the fact that she makes the tests throughout the semesters hard for no reason. She does not prepare us at all. When you ask her questions she gives so much attitude and expects you to already know the answer. Which is extremely rude since students come to office hours to get help- not be laughed at or given attitude.

Rude and full of herself. She should be fired. Does not care about students and only herself. The labs are not hard. It is the course assessments where people got hurt. She ignored my emails when asking for help.

When registering for classes treat orgo lab as a 4 credit course. There are 4 tests throughout the semester and you have to memorize the lecture slides to do well on them and even then, the wording is confusing and no changes are made even when the prof acknowledges the poor questions. Go to TA OH for help on lab reports, they save your grade

The worst professor I have had. She does not want her students to succeed and is rude when you ask for help. Labs are not hard but her exams are and will bring you down. Studying her lecture notes and manual will not be enough to do well on her exams. There are questions on exams that she has never covered and will expect you to know them.

In Orgo 1, I only attended the first few lectures. After that point, I realized it was not worth my time. Dr. Karugu is such a terrible lecturer that I simply stopped attending lectures. I taught myself Orgo 1 with the textbook and homeworks. Avoid her at all costs, or sneak into Williamson's lecture. She's that bad.

She is a terrible lecturer and you are better off just reading the notes she posts and learning by yourself instead of going. Since it is a lab it has a good amount of work, prelabs every lab, 3 lab reports and several short analysis reports. Her tests are awful and she doesnt care that the averages are terrible.

Nice person. Horrible at her job. Terrible lectures, honestly not even worth it to go. Accent also makes it hard to understand her and she also seems lost in the content sometimes. Try to take it with anyone else but her

SO awful. If there is a different lecturer than her, register for theirs. She makes the exams so difficult that when I tried to go to TA office hours for help, they had zero clue how to do some of her problems. She expects you to know stuff that has never been covered in her lectures and the lab manual. This is not an easy class and only 2 credits.

Dr. Karugo is on my small list of the worst professors I have had to deal with. Not only is orgo lab over the top when it comes to work, but she is also condescending and rude. She talks to you as if you are stupid and is extremely full of herself. She is nonexistent in the lab and her weekly quizzes are stupid difficult. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS

If you couldn't already tell by these reviews, let me clear it up for you; Dr. Karugu is one of if not the worst professor at Binghamton. Her lectures are almost pointless to go to except for the fact that she takes attendance. She is quite literally incapable of teaching. As the other comments mentioned she can be rude and condescending as well.

Awful professor. She doesn't know how to teach and is unwilling to accept feedback from students. For a two credit lab class its very test heavy not to mention the unnecessarily long lab reports.

Currently studying for this final exam...why are the powerpoint slides not even comprehensible sentences. "Recrystallization is based on temperature and amount solubility characteristics". Not to mention the question of why we even have a final exam for a 2 credit lab.

She is honestly the worst, I have no idea why Binghamton allows her to teach here.

Literally the worst professor at this school. Besides the fact that she struggles to convey the material in her lectures, there are four non-cumulative exams throughout the semester and a cumulative final exam, which is so unnecessary for a 2-credit lab. It's difficult to do well because of that, but the lab itself was fun. Lab reports suck.

Dr. Karugu is now teaching Orgo lab because her sections of Orgo lectures despised her and her attendance was abysmal. She is not a good teacher, she fumbles through slides. She will ignore every email you send, and she will get defensive if you ask questions. Our test averages were consistently low (60-70s) and she didn't care at all.

This class was bad. Just bad. My advice: go to office hours for lab reports, short analysis, and post labs. When you get points off on something you write, FIGHT FOR YOUR POINTS BACK. Most TAs will give you back points if you can explain yourself. Aside from that, study the lectures and practice questions hard! CAs are very similar to these!

I would say your grade in this course is largely determined by your TA. I was lucky I had a fair TA but if not, it will be hard to do well. You have to take 4 course assessments throughout the semester which are quizzes. The averages for these were almost always below a 65 and it's because Dr.Karugu's lectures were not clear at all.

BAD lab course, do NOT take!

Seems smart enough but has serious issues teaching/conveying material. I believe this is her first year teaching this level course & it shows. Shes not open to suggestions/ feedback at all Very clear she holds her head high and looks down upon her students. Ive taken many classes before & this is by far the worst. Does not communicate w/ TAs at all

She is demeaning and blames the entire class of students for having a low test score average/quiz average rather than blaming her teaching methods or lack thereof. She is incredibly unaware that students are struggling and calls them out for being tired or not listening when they ask for help. It is genuinely impossible to learn from her.

Terrible class. She doesn't know how to explain what she's teaching and can't even answer basic questions. She gives no practice questions to prep for exams and test questions relate NOTHING to her lecture. She tells us to "settle down" when she's the only one talking and tells us we don't "prepare for her exams" when the entire class gets 50-60's.

Binghamton is failing their students by having her teach. She tells the class one thing and contradicts it the next class. Tells us she will give extra credit and offered it MAYBE once. Tells us lecture is mandatory with attendance half way through the semester yet never took it. Doesnt tell us our grades/ doesn't tell us how things will be graded.

Karugu was such a bad professor. She would just read from the slides, and never go in depth. Inaccessible by email, and would talk down to students that had questions in class. She would never know what she was talking about in office hours, and would frequently do problems wrong, which confused the entire class.

Tutors taught me chem, not Dr. K. Her slides showed basic concepts of very confusing and complex topics. She laughed when students asked questions. She rarely put the answers of problems on the board. Her exams had tricky questions which were never explained in lecture. The answer keys to the quizzes and tests had many errors. SHE CANNOT TEACH.

Awful at teaching. Our final was put online due to a snowstorm and she gave us less time and made the test extremely hard even though it's not our fault the final got put online last minute. This class has way too much work and the final is worth too much for just a 2 credit course. She has no compassion for students.

With the final moved online and time reduced, there were too many calculations based questions that for the 40 questions where half of the questions were calculation based and the other half were a 50-50 for true or false where time for the final original was 2hrs and reduced to 1hr, there was no way to pass successfully. all the other tests suck 2

To give Karugu a rating of 1 is far too generous. If she was anything near a rating of 1 this class would feel so much easier. It is a shame Binghamton hires anyone like this. TAs are told to grade extremely hard for assignments that take far too much time. She refuses to recognize the problems she causes students, all for a 2 credit class.

Would put up practice problems in lecture. give 30 seconds to do it. then get mad we couldn't do it. never taught us how to do it and then never explained how to do it. changed the format of the final without telling anyone so no one was able to finish. 10 page lab reports are worth the same as 1 page ones. AVOID TAKING HER IF U CAN!!

She's a terrible teacher and her exams are impossible. Her lectures are disorganized and she teaches concepts that aren't on her slides. Students often correct her in class and if she's doing a problem, she never gives the final answer. Labs never related to class and I felt bad for the ta's because they had to teach us and do her job.

SOO bad. Do not take chem101 with Dr Karugu. If you are in nursing, try to get out of it and take chem 104 instead. So many homework's on material we didn't learn. Quizzes every week that are super hard. Really busy work for the labs. The worst and hardest class I've ever taken.

Karugu is a professor that makes simple ideas very confusing. You can go in knowing a topic and leave confused. Very lecture heavy but you have to teach yourself and the tests/quizzes are very difficult, sometimes covering things we didn't discuss. Karugu seemed nice but ended up being a bit rude and unaproachable.

Never taken exams so far off from the material presented in class. She was not only rude, but got angry when students didn't understand a topic right away. Every quiz we had she decided to give us less time, and laughed when telling us this. Felt like we were all set up for failure, as she claimed to nursing students it was a "weed out course"

Terrible prof. Avoid her at all costs. Mean, condescending, tests are extremely hard for no reason

Seems to think her 2 credit class is a 4 credit class.

I find it appalling that a lab report that takes 8-12 hours to complete, counts as much as a short analysis that takes an hour. The exams are totally unnecessary for a lab course. The time it takes to complete the work is that of a 4-credit class, not 2-credit. Rude and pushy to students during lectures. Makes it harder for students for no reason.

It was very difficult to understand her concepts when looking at an intro course. For instance, we spent a ton of time on easy stuff but very little time on the harder spots of the course. I also found most of the labs interesting but difficult to understand because we went into them not knowing most of the material to solve them. I would avoid

Very nice, just isn't a good lecturer. I had a hard time understanding everything in this class. I dropped the course; it was overwhelming as this was one of four courses. I had to learn nearly everything myself. It's even worse seeing I (would've) had to go to ten labs for ZERO lab credit. It's a waste of time, don't do it. Just go into 104.

Professor Karugu is a nice lady but her lectures are irrelevant to the exams and discussion quizzes. I had to ask my friend who takes chem at a different school, for their notes. If you are planning to be a nursing major, take chem 104 or take it somewhere else because it is not worth your time. If you have a good TA, labs will help your grade.

Prepare to teach yourself the course. She is nice but isn't very good at lecturing & only reads off the slides. She explains everything in a way that can make easy stuff confusing so you have to teach yourself an easier way. She does problems in class but never finds the answer herself to confirm the students answer then won't put it on the board.

Professor Karugu seems like a kind person but is not enjoyable as a professor. She kept cutting times for weekly quizzes and was not receptive to students struggling. There is a lot of self-studying required because she makes everything overcomplicated. Luckily homework assignments are easy points, but many exams were in need of a curve, and/or EC.

toxic and excessive, repetitive and wasteful. a 4 credit course disguised as a 2 credit course. exams and lectures are useless since we repeat everything in lab. also very dramatic. brace yourself since she is the only one. soul crushing lab.

Treats the Grad TAs like they are not even people and is rude to everyone she talks to. Very argumentitve and shows no leiniency for being late at all to labs. The course itself is easy but would be more likeable without her.

This a 2 credit with the work level of a 4 credit class. She is also so disrespectful and rude to students. The first day of class she yelled at someone for being late and make them walk all the way to front of the room to sit right in front of her. Just do not take this lab unless absolutely necessary. Not worth it at all.

She consistently shows a lack of respect towards the students, often speaking in a condescending manner, and her explanations are frequently unclear.

As Chem335's instructor, it should be her duty to get the teaching assistants ready to train the students. But at the TA meeting, she yells at everyone for 70% of the time. anytime someone asks a question. To keep students from ever asking her questions, she taunts them! She is to blame for the psychological stress of the TAs and students!

Really strict about attendance for the lab. She's unnecessarily rude and has a power trip. My friend used the bathroom for 2 seconds while the TA waited for him to start the safety protocol. But she wasn't okay with that, so she kicked him out and told him to go home. Now he has to do a makeup lab and wake up at 7:30 in the morning again.

This professor is just kinda rude. 2 kids in my class went to the bathroom and she wouldn't let them back into the room. This was at 8:02ish before the slides begun. Kinda crazy to not let someone pee. the 1 kid got kicked on the day it was a 4 person lab. I asked if we could then join other groups she said no. the CAs are awful to study for.

I don't know how she got this position, but she sure isn't here to help anyone! She has so many poor reviews, and its not hard to see why. She kicked out students for using the bathroom during a 4-hour lab, even though they received the TAs approval first. The TAs do all the teaching, and it's clear they're the ones actually making an effort.

There is proper learning and then their is what she does. She has no patience. My lab partner poured a little too much into one of our reactions, so our melting point analysis wasnt dead accurate, but she happened to walk in the room to show she has authority and forced our TA to take 8/15 points off our grade for the day.

Do not take this class, im begging you. Hope this helps.

She is rude/condescending when asking questions and unfair in grading. 3 lecture exams and 2 lab reports with weekly prelabs make it a 4-credit level coursework when it is 2. She won't even let students return to the lab after using the bathroom, even with permission from the TA. The TA's do all the work, and she is rude to them as well.

I genuinely hated her class. I came back crying after every lab class because of how rude the TA was. One time I made a mistake on the questions and I was asked to go to her office and she was so mean for no reason. Made me feel so dumb even though she made a mistake on how the question was formatted. Utter waste of time