This is a review of Dr. Amber Reilly. This professor mentioned here retired and Reilly took her place. Dr. Reilly is an extremely, extremely, EXTREMELY (did I say extremely?) good professor who definitely cares about her students. Go to her outside of office hours (anytime she's in her office), and she will welcome you with open arms, trying to help with your problems. She also relates to her students very well, and going to office hours is almost like making a new friend. She's very sociable and knowledgable about the material. Her lectures will be fun and she tells you EXACTLY what you need to know for the exam and EXACTLY what is supplementary material.

However, here's what you guys really care about. How this class is graded. You need a 95% or higher to get an A in this class. (90-95 is an A-) This is actually really tough to do. If you lose 1 point on every pre-lab and post-lab, you will need to get a 93 on the final exam to get an A. Lose 2 points on every pre-lab/post-lab, and that shoots up to a 96.5. (This is if you get perfect on EVERYTHING ELSE, you will likely not get perfect on your presentation, which is 10% of your grade. Grades were 28 or 29 out of 30, but that means you lose .5% of your grade) Your TA will definitely nit-pick one or two points on every prelab and postlab, which means you are going to have to be very careful on the final. I got a 94 on the final, and that gave me a 95.0021 average in this class. The final itself is pretty easy, but just remember, since the exam is usually out of 98 points, missing 7 points is going to cost you an A. :) I imagine losing points on the exam is very easy as well. (Misplace a bracket for polymers, don't show a + charge or a - charge, forget about the solvent, etc: all areas where you lose -1. [It adds up quick!!])

TL;DR: Professor Reilly is great, highly recommend. Grading scheme is shit. You will most likely end up with an A-.

Dr. Kammeyer is an excellent professor here at UCLA. Honestly, this class was much easier for me than Pang's Chem 30AL lab (this may be due to the fact that this class only is 3 units, and Chem 30AL was 4 units). All in all, there are 6 total labs to do over 10 weeks and a lab partner project about one of the labs that you must present to the class.

The labs themselves are pretty clear; yes, they do take long to do, but at least in this class, I actually understand the chemistry behind the labs and what is going on in the reaction vs. Chem 30AL I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and blindly following the manual. Plus, the pre-labs in this class are WAY less time consuming than Pang's and half of the post-lab content is free points (ex. you go online, find a reaction, and copy down the mechanism).

Kammeyer does flip lectures, in which you watch a 25 minute video about the lab you are going to do, and then come to class, and she continues with the lecture/lab content in which you need to know. There is also no midterm for her class, as the points come from prelecture video quizzes, prelabs, post labs, participation (clickers), TA points, and finally, the final.

In this class, I was able to understand how organic chemistry techiniques actually work, such as TLC plates, and acid base extraction, whereas in Chem 30AL, I had no idea what the hell I was doing. There are plenty of resources; my only complaint is that I wished there were TA office hours Friday.

All in all, I can fully recommend this class with this professor.

Half the time this class didn't even feel like a class. It was an excellent opportunity for me to explore the organic lab environment and there were some seriously cool experiments we did, but then also a handful of awfully boring ones. But overall it was very chill and relaxed.

There were lab worksheets that took a decent amount of time in the beginning. You will have crappy NMR data in the start, that is expected and planned out from the course since you don't purify compounds, so don't get too stressed over shitty data like I did and waste a bunch of time. Once you get the hang of them the reports are cake.

The final is hard, make sure to study. Probably get old lab handouts from a friend so you don't lose points, TA's are usually pretty chill. Also her cutoff for an A is a 95% which is really fucking annoying.

Jacquelin is awesome and super helpful. She completely dedicated herself to this class and was always available. Fair warning, Spring 2018 will be her last quarter so I don't think this review will be too helpful later on, but if Dr. Garg takes over I imagine it is much of the same.

Loved this class! Dr. Kammeyer is one of the best professors I've had at UCLA. The labs were genuinely extremely fascinating and I learned more about chemistry in this class than in almost any other course I've taken.

I found the first three weeks of this course extremely difficult – the workload is not insignificant, but it becomes substantially easier to handle once you get an idea of what Professor Kammeyer and the TAs expect from you.

If organic chemistry isn't your strongest subject, make sure you know the reactions covered in lab backwards and forwards. I lost a lot of of points on the final because I didn't remember my reactions from 30B very well.

Dr. Kammeyer is the best professor I have ever had at UCLA so do yourself a favour and take her class while she is still teaching here. She helped me learn to love organic chemistry and understand fundamental concepts that have aided me in my actual field of study. Dr. Kammeyer is so extraordinarily helpful and engaging. The labs each week are well-organized and very interesting, and the TAs are really helpful in section. Studying for the final exam was quite pleasant as well because Dr. Kammeyer holds many office hours/review sessions to help you learn and she genuinely cares about the learning of her students. This was my favourite class at UCLA—I'm about to graduate and I really wish I had taken her class earlier because I think it would have helped me in all of my other chemistry and biochemistry classes. Take this class ASAP!

Dr. Kammeyer is an excellent and engaging professor! Compared to 30AL and 20L, this class was a breath of fresh air. Instead of the traditional pre-labs and post-labs in previous lab classes, you are given packets that have a good mix of straightforward and challenging questions.

30BL with Kammeyer is probably the most laid back lab experience you will ever have. 30BL used to be very notorious with Bacher but now that the class has been revamped it is much, much easier.

You only have 1 lab a week which means 1 post and prelab due every week. They are typically very easy but doing well on them is very important because they're worth 40% of your grade. Even though the class is laid back that doesn't mean they will let incorrect answers go without taking off points. There is no midterm but you do have a presentation at the end of the quarter on one of the labs which should be easy points. The final is not bad at all and is similar to the finals Kammeyer gives you. The one thing to be careful about is the fact that the class is not graded on a curve. It is straight scale unless the average is lower than expected. If that happens she will adjust the scaling in your favor which is what I suspect happened to our class.

Kammeyer herself is a pretty good professor. She holds a lot of office hours and has clear presentations even if they feel rushed at times. There are a fair number of demos which are pretty cool. My TAs were really cool and chill people which made this lab a great experience. Would definitely recommend this class and I hope Kammeyer never stops teaching it because she is exactly what the chem department needs

She's a new professor, and I'd argue she's probably the best chem lab professor you can get at UCLA.She really cares that all of us do as well as we can and offers a lot of help through office hours and review sessions. She even stops by during lab to check on each group to see how the experiment is going.

Most of the class is doing pre lab and post labs, which aren't too bad, but take time on them because they are 40% of your grade and they do take points off if answers are incorrect. Each group is assigned an experiment to do a presentation on at the end of the quarter (worth 20% of grade). I just took the final and it wasn't too hard, and very similar in format at questions as the previous finals. But you should study all the reactions and pre lab/postman questions, as well as important concepts like TLC and acid/base extraction.

Workload was alright, not too much. Would take a class with her again if she taught 30cl

Dr. Kammeyer is a great instructor. She seems friendly and willing to help. The labs themselves are not bad (but take them seriously). She teaches the class to actually make you learn things, and I felt that I did learn a lot in Chem 30BL.

In Chem 20L and 30AL, I felt rushed doing the labs and never fully understood their importance as much as I should have. With Chem 30BL, I actually UNDERSTOOD why I was doing the labs and their applications.

There is only one issue I have with the class, which can be fixed (and may already be fixed since I took the class in Fall 2016). When I took the class, grades weren't uploaded on a consistent manner, which I feel is not fair to students. We should be able to know how our labs, participation, and other points are entered into the system in order to 1) Make sure that there are no errors in entry of grades 2) Know why we got a certain grade at the end of the quarter. There are a ton of TAs for the class, and I feel that this would be an easy fix.

Also, go to class! She takes attendance via you answering the clicker questions, so don't miss a single lecture. You wouldn't want to miss them anyways-she explains the material clearly and the class was interesting.

Dr. Kammeyer's crew (herself + all her TAs) are the chillest people you will ever meet in the Chemistry lab class., maybe even in the whole school. They make you feel like you are talking to a friend of yours. Dr. Kammeyer's lectures are well organized and engaging. The class isn't that hard. And you get to learn a lot about organic chemistry. The labs are fun, even the lab reports are fun. Take this class and find out more. You will definitely end up happy and Dr. Kammeyer will end up as one of your favorite professors at UCLA, guaranteed. Go to office hours. You will find out why I sad this once you keep showing up. Enjoy.