Reviews of professor Robert DiStasio

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good professor, exams were mostly fair, genuinely wanted us to succeed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I genuinely adore Prof DiStasio-- I haven't had such a lovely chem professor since high school. His lectures are well-paced, engaging, understandable, and informative, and he makes it obvious how much he cares about our success and well-being. Exams are fair and he regularly asks our opinions about the length and difficulty. Overall lovely guy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
DiStasio is a good lecturer and I found it easier to attend class when I read the material- even skimmed for ten minutes - before coming because he's organized with the topics. Go to office hours to go over back of the book questions/conceptual (!!!) understanding - heavy on concepts - and don't fall back on lab grades, it can seriously hurt

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's kind of boring during lectures and basically rewords the textbook. He was very behind on content and that kind of messed with the lab portion of the course. Exams are at a reasonable difficulty if you do practice problems from the textbook + discussion sets, but a bit too many questions in my opinion (have to rush to finish them).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
heavily relied on the textbook, but lectures were well organized and easy to follow. tests were fair. if you go to lecture, follow the textbook, and do the practice problems and homework, you should have no problems with the class. definitely learn a lot and dr. Distasio was great!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. DiStasio is not a bad professor, but he's just very boring. His lectures are live readings of the textbook and aren't very engaging. However, he pulls straight from the textbook problems for prelims so if you do a lot of the problems from the end of chapter, you'll be fine. Gives lots of opportunities for grade improvement through mini prelims.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Robert is a beautiful soul. People say humans make mistakes, but rob doesn't. He is the closest thing to perfect a human can be. His kindness and caring nature has almost brought me to tears. His class was actually very good, difficult but since Rob is so amazing he got us through it, unlike in chem 2070. He also frequents goldies often, so pu.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures come straight from the textbook and are recorded (very easy to watch in 2x speed). Discussion sections were pointless since they would go over the easy questions. Problem sets were a must do before every exam. Basically understand how to do every problem on the PS and the class is cake. Lab depends on TA, some good and some very bad.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He really likes chemistry and wants his students to as well. You can tell he genuinely cares about his students and just wants us to appreciate chemistry like he does. He's a funny bloke also.