Baugh so hard that shit cray

I'm writing this now before i see my grade for chem 20AH so that i won't be as biased. There's really two things to rate here, the professor and the class chem 20AH.

Professor Baugh is a nice easy going guy who just happens to be a friggin genius. He's a good teacher in class because he asks the class (of 60 or so) questions and interacts with them, which helps you get the course material. The thing i really liked about him is that he liked the kids who were normal and disliked the freakshows (and let me tell you, there are a few in Chem 20AH) who went to the library for supplemental quantum chemistry books the first day and then bithed when they were all checked out. I reccomend taking Professor Baugh and i did like his TA as well because they were real people, not chem people who'd never seen the light of day. before you go leaping to take chem 20AH, read the next paragraph.

Chem 20AH is a kick in the teeth. I thought i knew at least a little something about chemistry before i took this class. It's absolutely nuts, if you're some kid who aced HS chemistry and is a humanities major looking for a "challenge" as so many of the people weeping were, then run from this class as far as your legs will carry you. If you're going into something this will actually be useful for, (biochem, chem etc.) take the class and get ready. Let go of everything you ever thought you knew about chem and just go with it. The first midterm was hard, the second was easier but still hard and the final was as hard as the first midterm, but was do-able provided you studied your a$$ off. If you go into this class expecting to be a jedi and get an easy A, forget it, but if you approach it with the mentality that you're a lamb going to the slaughterhouse, you'll hang in there and get a whole lot of high-level knowledge (i talked to one fo my third year friends and he said we got upper division classwork). If i get better than a C in this class im gonna frame the darn printout and hang it above my mantle.

TATfinal grade等的我花儿都谢了。。。
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Professor Baugh is very passionate about physical chemistry, and you can see that in the way he teaches. He focuses a lot on the physical meaning of equations, and less on the actual math (I have heard from my friends who took other professors for this class that it was very math-heavy; it was never math-heavy in Baugh's class). In fact, he skipped a lot of very complicated equations on the textbook, and also skimmed their derivations. So if you hate math and just want to concentrate on understanding the physical meaning of equations, I would say Baugh is a good choice for you!

His class may be hard, but definitely a lot more doable than other hard professors like Felker or Corbin. He is also a very fair guy. He explains at the start of the class what his midterms and final would consist of, so you'd know what to expect and study for. He also didn't test materials that he didn't cover (which is actually a good amount of material because of his poor time management skills), unlike some previous reviews said. Maybe he's a changed man, or maybe he loves our class a lot, I don't know.

My tip: go to lectures and LISTEN to what he says. He tends to repeat a lot on what he finds extremely fascinating about the class, and so, unsurprisingly, those concepts were heavily tested in the midterms. He repeats those concepts so much that he drills them into me, which ultimately helped me in the exams. So definitely pay attention to his lecture.

**((my secret tip)): get your hands on those past midterms through whatever means necessary. Then tell your TA to go through them, but (tell them not to tell Baugh you got them or he will change his questions! or maybe just don't even tell the TA it was from a past midterm).

the class has 4 lab reports and 1 presentation. do not expect to get a good grade on the first lab report because the TA graded very harsh on the first one as well as the second lab report. but the third and fourth lab, they gave us very good grade overall. You will be assigned to do different 4 labs with specific lab partners. 1 new lab every 2 week. some labs can be finished in only 5 hours (1 lab period) but some will take the whole 2 weeks (4 lab periods). do not expect to learn much from the lecture by the professor. It was confusing . the lecture does take attendance. the lab report is expected to be no longer than 15 pages (single space). The TAs were very helpful. The presentation is in week 10th, u will choose one of the lab that u did and basically just present what u did and your result in front of TAs, labmates and professor. that's it, no midterm, no final, just 4 lab report and 1 presentation, which is amazing. good luck.