Professor Reilly is amazing. She is very clear and articulate in her office hours about what she is looking for in her pre-lab and post-lab assignments, and she's really engaging with topics that expand out of CHEM 30CL to relate concepts to outside applications i.e. industry, pharmaceuticals, etc. Additionally, Professor Reilly is very empathetic, accommodating, and a pretty chill professor to strike a conversation with. Although I was unable to take this class in a practical laboratory setting due to pandemic reasons, this course was very enriching with cooler and more exciting organic chemistry concepts and lab knowledge compared to CHEM 30BL (...no offense). In all, there are some things that are less appealing in virtual CHEM 30CL such as troubleshooting issues that come from TopSpin (yea... still as annoying as in CHEM 30BL) and virtual lab sections, which is slightly less exciting and engaging compared to practical lab sections. However, if you ever have the chance to take CHEM 30CL with Professor Reilly, please do!

Side note: If you want to see a ton of dog pics especially greyhounds to motivate your spirits, this is probably the course for you!

I loved taking this class with Reilly so much. She is such a friendly and thoughtful professor. She was super flexible with everything (especially because it was the return to in person classes) and I would recommend her to anyone. She gave us extra credit for turning in a drawing of her dog!

Ok honestly Dr. Reilly was goin' through it this quarter BUT STILL managed to deliver insanely engaging and cool lectures and was SELF AWARE that she was not doing well and actively made that class easier- a mark of someone who honestly really cares about her students. She cancelled our final presentation for a more goofy type chemistry related video, provided tons of extra credit, extended deadlines etc. Final was still a little bit rough as most Reilly finals go but she provided some funny questions on it to balance it out and provided 3 practice finals as well to help you study for it. My only complaint ig which is more for the department is that there is very little practice for the types of questions on the final given throughout the quarter so you really need to grind- it's not studyable in one day. You really had to know your experiments and learn applications as she pulls reactions from papers and expects you to know what modifying certain things does. However, I love all the experiments and it was insanely cool stuff that you learn throughout the quarter- highly recommend this class and Dr. Reilly :)