Professor Palmer is really nice. He lets the TAs run the lab (which most if not all professors do) and you mostly only see him in lecture. Sunday review sessions are a good chance to ask questions and he is available for any other help. I would recommend talking to TAs since they do most of the grading anyway.

I wouldn't recommend this course unless it's required. It was so much work outside of lab (lab reports and understanding the material). The material here didn't really seem to correlate well with chem181 material, making it harder to understand. Lecturer was nice, but I wouldn't say he was fair, especially with the final that was very unexpectedly difficult.

Palmer is really nice! I learned a lot in the class- it really prepared me for future labs.

Absolutely a worthwhile course. The T.A.s can be very harsh graders, but through a poor grade (or two), you learn so much about scientific writing, particularly in research reports. The labs were generally very interesting ? you do a lot of cool things with a molecular modeling computer program, and the wet labs teach you various lab techniques.

Palmer is a great professor, and his class is well structured. The lab reports, while few, are heavily weighted in comparison to other work. There is no curve, which can be a problem if the TA grades harshly. This is a lot of work, and a lot of writing, with a project and final.