Reviews of professor Colin Smith

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He was late every class period which is unprofessional and shows he doesn't care about our time. He rambles the whole lecture and reads his notes word for word. Lectures are hard to follow on your own because each slide has big ambiguous words which makes it hard to understand what it's even saying. Wouldn't take it again, and you shouldn't either!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Smith is definitely knowledgeable, but sometimes has a difficult time explaining difficult concepts in a clear way. I found the textbook helpful to fill in the gaps here, as well as taking notes on his PowerPoint slides. The class was tough, but the grading was pretty fair. I definitely learned a lot!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Colin taught lab for a horrendously hard class and made it better than bearable. Great sense of humor and way easier of a grader then the other lab instructor. He honestly saved my grade.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I felt completely lost half the time in this class, mostly due to his lack of explanation. He expects us to know more than we do and the order of the class content is all over the place. I am in general chemistry, and yet he is pushing organic chemistry elements that we shouldn't be learning at this point.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I have had him for two classes now. he is a good teacher despite what everyone is saying. Ofc i am in the major so i will find the subject matter interesting, but his classes are not hard at all and the homework load is so light. He is very nice and interesting to listen to, but if you do not like lecture classes you will probably get tired.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
We had 3 tests (not graded on anything else)-if you read the readings, studied the study guide, and paid attention in class shouldn't be too hard. Decent amount of reading, but easy to put off if I needed to concentrate on other classes. Boring lectures, not engaging, interesting content, not good learning style-just regurgitating info on tests :(

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I hated this class. Lectures were long and not much happened in them. We were graded on three tests with ridiculously specific questions. I went to his office hours and he did little to help. A nice guy, but not a great professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A lot of students don't seem to like Smith because yes he is hard. But Chemistry is hard not him. If you are interested in the topic he is brilliant, patient, kind and assessable outside of class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class is boring and is mainly lectures. You only get graded on a few tests, which are relatively hard. Slideshows were often not posted online until the week after class which was extremely annoying. The professor is nice but seems to be unorganized.