Reviews of professor Shaun Brinsmade

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Brinsmade is an ineffective professor. He regularly waffles questions he clearly does not know the answer to rather than admitting so or, God forbid, polishing up on the material. He has given his own poll questions and not been able to explain the answers. The tests are a game of guessing what he wants--not of how well you understand. It's a joke.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Worst teacher at Georgetown by far! And that's saying something because I have withdrawn from a course before. Ended up with a mid 91 and got a B+. Unresponsive to emails, unavailable during 24 hour test periods that take 18 hours to do, doesn't teach majority of material on test, and doesn't care about students or their feedback despite saying so.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Most awful class I've taken at GU and that's including orgo. I was really looking forward to taking biochem, but he CANNOT teach. Learned nothing even though I took 18+ hour-long exams, spent tons of time on the final lab project, etc. Grading: NOT clear. Unresponsive and rude in emails, deflated grades by 2-3%!!! You must kiss up to him to do well

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Micro with Brinsmade was not great. His lectures were disorganized and barely covered the material we were tested on. This made exams unreasonably tough and on top of that his grading criteria was harsh and unclear. Not very accommodating during the pandemic. Was doing fine but decided to go P/F so I didn't have to attend Zoom classes anymore :/