Reviews of professor Paul Russo

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Joked constantly but couldn't read the room. Jokes varied from lame to outright offensive. If your a chemistry major, def don't take him. His first interaction with me he told me I should pick up a double major or minor or else "I'd never make money". Lab time is really lab lecture and requires you to use outside time to complete lab assignments.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He makes the class very difficult with weird conceptual questions on exams, but towards the end of the semester, he decided to curve everything (all the exams and the class as a whole) a LOT (exams by 15 to 20 points and class by a letter grade). If you had 775 points out of 1000 before the final, he gave you an A and exempted you from the final.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is inherently difficult to teach because it covers too many aspects of MSE. Russo does a decent job at presenting the material, but in order to do well on the tests, you need to (re)read the textbook and work many extra problems to become comfortable with the material. Tests had a big time crunch, but a good curve helped us in the end.