Professor
Nicholas Deifel
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Fall 2023 - Really funny and nice guy, the most helpful teacher on campus and 50% of the grade are homework and attendance. Gives review sessions before tests which are really helpful through the test are not easy to say. Weekly graded homework which may take some time through, however it is easy to get 100% on that and it is like half of your grade. Definity 5/5 class and would gladly take again.
Fall 2023 - Really funny and nice guy, the most helpful teacher on campus and 50% of the grade are homework and attendance. Gives review sessions before tests which are really helpful through the test are not easy to say. Weekly graded homework which may take some time through, however it is easy to get 100% on that and it is like half of your grade. Definity 5/5 class and would gladly take again.
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Spring 2026 - I'm fairly certain Dr. Deifel will no longer be teaching at UCLA, but he co-taught this with Dr. Casas so I expect this will be applicable to when she's teaching this, especially since it seemed like she really admired his style and his connection to the students. If you were to imagine a millennial teaching organic chemistry, that's basically Deifel. He uses his vape to show mechanism routes, calls us "kiddos," and ended every lecture (including the first) by saying I love you all and pretending to cry. He does a lot of rambling, which I'm not a fan of but some people eat it up. He is very clear in his lectures about what will and won't be on the test, with the added bonus of him culling a lot of the stuff because he finds it redundant. The actual labs are super boring and have ridiculously long waiting steps. The majority of them are just running TLC, staining it, and then performing liquid-liquid extractions. Get lucky with a lab partner and it won't be so bad. Whoever grades the pre and post-labs has some sort of deep rooted anger that they're taking out on the students though. It is so upright and will just take points off for random stuff, which sucks because that's like your entire grade. The final was easy enough that it didn't matter though.
Spring 2026 - I'm fairly certain Dr. Deifel will no longer be teaching at UCLA, but he co-taught this with Dr. Casas so I expect this will be applicable to when she's teaching this, especially since it seemed like she really admired his style and his connection to the students. If you were to imagine a millennial teaching organic chemistry, that's basically Deifel. He uses his vape to show mechanism routes, calls us "kiddos," and ended every lecture (including the first) by saying I love you all and pretending to cry. He does a lot of rambling, which I'm not a fan of but some people eat it up. He is very clear in his lectures about what will and won't be on the test, with the added bonus of him culling a lot of the stuff because he finds it redundant. The actual labs are super boring and have ridiculously long waiting steps. The majority of them are just running TLC, staining it, and then performing liquid-liquid extractions. Get lucky with a lab partner and it won't be so bad. Whoever grades the pre and post-labs has some sort of deep rooted anger that they're taking out on the students though. It is so upright and will just take points off for random stuff, which sucks because that's like your entire grade. The final was easy enough that it didn't matter though.
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