This class gave me the most anxiety I have ever felt in my life, I could write a whole senior thesis on why this class was awful. I would write more, but nothing can top the slam poetry roast that someone wrote for their review.

just spare urself the pain bro

This class destroyed my mental health. Dr. Reilly is cruel and incompetent. I am so angry.

100% Harder than elden ring, would not recommend. Its like reilly is trying to screw you over. Gives the wrong answers in answer keys, finally provides practice problems 5 hours before exams, exam not even close to class material. Okay lectures for first 3 weeks, then starts going all over the place, confusing students.

This class was really bad. I am not the best with ochem already and this was worse. As everyone said in their reviews, shes disorganized. She had some good moments when she offered easy extra credit (draw her dog) and even took off extra BACON quizzes off our grade but never told us how she is curving this class. On a rough basing of my midterm scores compared with the averages, I was expecting an A- but I don't even know what I got on the final since she hasnt uploaded scores.

She was super difficult to reach. It was honestly terrible on my end as a CAE student reaching out about my additional time. Our exam was from 6:30-9:30 so my extra time would make me work late into the night and as I expressed this it was left onto me to remind her to check her email and email her the DAY before the final to find out if she would grant my extra time before the exam. She'd probably be a better professor for a course not as hard but this was a nightmare working with her.

Professor Reilly is an extremely engaging lecturer. I go to all of her lectures online because I can't wake up early enough to go in person, but I am very happy to be able to learn from her online. She still communicates well there so I don't have much of an issue there. As I'm writing this I have been told that I should mention that I am not in a hostage crisis. She is so well organized, and definitely puts out all her problem sets and keys on time. There are definitely no errors in any of them. Everyone told me ochem would be painful but with Reilly I feel no pain at all. I don't feel much of anything but I am not in pain so that's all that really matters. She is so kind and I never ever feel gaslit by her during the lecture after her exams. I love her dogs. Help me. Kacey and Rhys are wonderful and are very cute. Please Professor let me see my family.

This quarter was considerably better to what I had heard from the people and reviews of the previous quarter. Although of course it does not mean that this class is in any case easy, it is definitely more do-able than previous quarters through hard work and practicing and practicing some more.

Positives:
-For midterm 2 and the final she basically gave the class a definite 20% on each exam because she would literally give us the problem she would put on the exam with the answers to them.
-TA OH are your friends! (shoutout to Emma and Winston!)
-I was scared to go to Reilly's OH, but I felt like her personality changes in office hours and is actually 10 times more helpful than in lecture because she would explain reactions and concepts better in a smaller group setting. If you decide to go, make sure you go early because her office can fit at most like 10 people.
-Very real ochem memes from prev students
-Ofc her dog pictures

Negatives:
-I would say that lectures are hard to follow and fast paced and I was definitely lost every week until I put in the time to practice before the exams
-She was quite slow in posting lecture notes in the first half of the quarter, but after midterm 2 she dropped the rest of the quarter's annotated lecture notes which was really helpful
-Everything builds off from the week before and doesn't stop stacking ever
-I'm sure it will be different in other quarters but grades were out very late probably due to it being summer
(Personal advice: I took pictures of the slides rather than writing them down because she goes through them really fast and I spend most of lecture trying to process the information rather than struggle to copy her fast writing pace.)

Test Averages:
MT1: 60%
MT2: 60%
Final: 69%
(note: The grading scale of Ochem classes are very wack, but there was a definite large rescaling to the grading scale at the end of this quarter)

TLDR: Do all the ez extra credit (dog pictures, TA and instructor evals, LA evals, reaction wheel) and practice, practice, practice (its possible to bounce back through hard work and hopefully in future quarters. It was very unlike previous quarters and reviews where it seemed that the content was beyond the abilities of even the TA's)

Professor Reilly was the most disorganized professor I have ever had. Tests were worth 75% of your grade and were EXTREMELY hard because they were online and open-note. She would make no less than 3 revisions to every answer key she posted and was generally unclear with due dates, posting Gradescope submissions, literally EVERYTHING. Her lectures were like you were watching someone talk in 2x speed. Final grades were just posted today (day 1 of spring quarter), there is no comprehensive gradebook where you can see all your assignment scores, and she didn't release final exam scores. If you can avoid taking this class with Reilly, I would do it.

Professor Reilly is the best professor I've had during my time at UCLA. If you have the opportunity to take this class with her, I would 100% recommend it. I would take her class again in a heartbeat. She really cares about her students and has been very accommodating during the pandemic. She holds office hours after class and during the weekend. We had 3 different types of assessment -- 5 Take-Home Assessments, 5 In-Class Assessments, 6 BACON. Take-Home Assessments were completion and she held workshops after they were due to go over each problem. In-Class Assessments were completed in 1 hour during class time. These were pretty challenging, but as I adapted to her testing/teaching method, it became easier over time. BACON worked to integrate our course materials with real-life, and although these were not for completion, they were very easy and took only 20 minutes. She also shows us pictures of her dog Kasey, who is absolutely adorable, during lecture. She gave numerous extra credit assignments including completing evaluations and memes/drawing.

Reilly is an AMAZING professor, but her exams are deadly.