Reviews of professor Carissa Olsen

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She was new to teaching this course so some adjustment was to be expected. The small daily homework assignments were great for grade boosting. The tests are insanely long and it is nearly impossible to finish them during the class period. Lectures were good, but got boring real quick. Some bonus point were given.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Olsen is a decent teacher, though you can tell she'd rather be teaching a more advanced class. She is very knowledgable and talks about her lab a lot, but it seems she has a hard time "dumbing herself down" for an intro level class. Lots of reading assigned but you don't really need to do it, as everything is covered in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not a good chem professor AT ALL. She is new and has never taught a chem 1010 class before. Each test had a class average of 70 or below. Students often corrected her and sometimes she was unsure about the answers to her own questions. Tests have way too much material for a 50 min period. Lectures are useless. I would strongly suggest avoiding her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had Professor Olsen for Metabolism and Disease and I loved it! As someone who struggled with Orgo and all the other gen chems, personally, this class was by far the best and the educational value of this course was much more than previous chem classes. I would 100% recommend this class. Primarily the grade consists of tests and a final project.