Oh man, you are in for a tough ride. I got a bad in this class but my friends both got As (some of the few). What's the consensus among us? This is by far the most difficult class conceptually you will ever take at UCLA's chemical engineering department. You will be confused from 2nd week to the final. And thats just how it is. My opinion is this class is the weeding out class, and from what I could judge--it did a pretty good job. Teacher is funny, has a lot of funny habits. But its not the teacher that makes it hard, its just the material. Thermo is just a hard thing--and it sucks when you don't have a book either, we mainly used a course reader. So don't expect to read a book and think you're fine if you don't go to lecture. And don't expect to understand the material just by going to lecture...like I said, its gonna be hard. But once you get out---everything pales in comparison.