Reviews of professor Jonathan Rienstra-Kiracofe

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Interesting lectures, describes topics in depth, is disorganized in his lectures so can get behind, fair exams

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Did a good job of teaching through the lectures with many opportunities to understand through office hours. Will say that the labs seemed unnecessary to the understanding and were tedious

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
DR. RK is just a solid, down to earth dude that runs a very straight-forward class that he does his best to make entertaining. As chemistry classes go, his was well taught and appropriately paced. You can find a free PDF of the textbook online: the class kinda requires it for the homework notebook items + it tracks fairly well to the lectures.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Makes sure to thoroughly explain difficult material.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. R-K is easily one of the best teachers I have ever had. Sometimes it is a little difficult to understand concepts in lecture, but he makes it clear you're always encouraged to speak to him and TAs. He genuinely makes class fun by consistently making chem related puns and jokes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr RK is one of the best professors I've had at Purdue. He genuinely cares about his students and tries his best to keep his lectures entertaining. He is great with analogies and has such a love for teaching chemistry

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There are plenty of extra credits opportunities so make sure you do all of them since they potentially boost your GPA. The professor has unorganized note and his lecture is getting boring easily. Hes not being clear about whats gonna be on the exam so prepare to study super hard but receive a grade that you did not expect it to be :)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This semester was impacted by COVID. There was no additional COVID curve or anything which hurt the overall grade. Labs were hard to do online but easy to do in person. Dr. RK was a great teacher and made lectures interesting. It was easy to study for the exams with the given study guides.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Made a less enjoyable subject interesting and I enjoyed attending the class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Makes sure to explain material thoroughly.