Reviews of professor Julia Laskin

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Poor teaching style. Requires room to be absolutely silent before she will speak. Lectures are difficult and use poorly done PowerPoint. Reading the textbook is a MUST. Exams are roughly half of your grade and are very difficult. She speaks very slowly or very quickly, there is no in-between.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall a challenging class, definitely geared towards more chem major students (which I am not) which can make things a little hard at times but really just sink as much time as you can in and you'll do ok. Having a good lab group is also really important, being paired with low-effort people can really ruin your grade for the labs.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Things were hard during the pandemic but she was very understanding of the challenging situation. She was always willing to help students. No exams this semester, instead she gave 3 writing assignment assessments. They were long but there was plenty of time to work on them and get them done correctly. Just start early

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I literally spent 20+ hours every week on this class and still got a B-. Laskin will nickel and dime you for every tiny thing on papers and lab reports. Wrote 15 papers/reports (10-15 pages each) over the semester. Unnecessary work load for the number of credits. And she's hesitant to answer questions, even if it wasn't covered fully in lecture.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Laskin explains concepts in chemistry very well. It is evident that she cares about her students (often holding review sessions for exams when no other professor would) and she has a passion for chemistry. The labs in CHEM116 can be a pain (mostly the lab reports), but Laskin ties in lab ideas in lecture to help us out. Great professor!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I could actually understand her, which was good. She did move kind of quickly through some lecture slides which was frustrating when you are trying to take good notes. Also, she had a huge pet peeve for when people would start packing up with a minute left in class, which never made sense to me because it was in a large lecture hall anyway.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very nice professor. They got rid of exams this semester so the class has been very easy. TA's and professor answer questions very quickly and are helpful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Definitely a great teacher!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Laskin is an incredible professor; Purdue's chemistry department and its students are lucky to have her! Incredible lectures; everything makes sense.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Laskin is nice but her class is unbearable. The instructors are inaccessible and when you ask a question they say "what do you think?" and "we cannot answer because it is in the course" We aren't allowed to talk to each other and an unreasonable amount of work is required for only 4 credits, as if we have nothing else going on in our lives.