Reviews of professor Lingfeng Liu

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures are boring, powerpoints are word heavy. She's caring, but speeds through material without explaining anything and expects you to know everything. We covered material that other Orgo 1 profs didn't cover, and we were tested on it. There is extra credit and a big curve, but basically if you're at/slightly below average you'll end with a C.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's very nice, but her passion is Biochem, not Orgo & she would tell us certain mechanisms weren't important but they would show up on exams & she expected us to know things she didn't explain. She's soft-spoken which made focusing difficult. There was a very generous curve (69% for a B-) I can't speak to her for biochem, but I'd avoid for orgo.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kitty is an amazing lab instructor. I'm genuinely confident that she is the best professor I've ever had, and I'd take this lab all over again just for her. Very passionate and knowledgable in difficult organic chemistry topics.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
By far the hardest orgo professor you can take, we had to know stuff that no other classes did. She and her TAs are so stingy with grading and the slightest mistake can mean getting no credit for the entire question. She also consistently scheduled tests on the worst dates possible. She acts nice but really doesn't care about students at all.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Kitty is such a kind and understanding person but her class does not reflect that. Exams and other questions were brutal. Office hours weren't much help for content. The exams are going to be hard application-based - you must put work in. However, the exams were a completely different beast - even the TA thought they were too difficult.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kitty grades with 3 exams, a final, and homework. The homework boosts your grade, but it wasn't reflective of what her exams looked like. The exams are HARD. She did offer to let students drop a midterm exam, but it would make your final worth more towards your overall grade. Kitty is sweet but holds her students to very high standards.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Kitty is a nice person but awful prof. Lectures were very dry and boring and difficult to understand her. She only read from her slides which made ochem more difficult to learn. Exams were extremely difficult compared to other profs, she would ask things that nobody else should be expected to know. save yourself the trouble and take someone else!