Comments:Lab - As you all have heard, the horror stories about this class are all true. This class is a lot of busy work. Your TA grades your stuff, and she will go back and regrade and lower your actual grade. Overall, this class had a lot more work than many of my STEM classes. Be prepared to spend countless hours on post labs and other assignments. Also, the prelab and post labs are NOT easy. Overall, she is very rude, but at least she responds to emails very quickly. Labs often take the full 3 hours, and good luck if she walks into your lab section. As many other students have stated, this class will cause problems for your mental health. In the end there is no escape from this lab, so just try to take it with OCHEM 2. Some extra credit opportunities can up your grade slightly. Overall, this was the worst lab I have taken at Baylor, and happy that the horror is over.  - Grade In Class:B

Comments:3238 - Dr. Jourdain is a brilliant professor that is actually good at dumbing down the concepts, but I took this lab with 2 other labs and it was very overwhelming. This whole lab was revamped and it is now a good blend of workload and learning. There are a few glaring issues that aren't conducive to learning such as the labs taking a few weeks to grade, which could affect your future lab grades as you don't know which areas you need to improve/change on. The quizzes were online but actually fairly difficult. NGL your whole lab grade resides in your TAs hands. Do whatever you can to get on their good side or know ahead of time who to look for. No matter your work ethic / time management you probably won't be able to overcome a harsh grading TA. Dr. Jourdain is the most available and fast responder I have seen at Baylor and is helpful on assignments you would like to be regraded.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:CHE 3238 - This might be a bit of a hot-take, but I LOVED the organic chemistry lab. The reactions were so fun, and getting to work with NMR and IR really made those topics make so much more sense during OChem II lecture. For a little bit of a breakdown for the course: Course assignments - 10% (Safety Quiz, Academic Integrity Quiz, Final Exam, TA stuff), Writing assignments - 10% (the lab report and some other writing assignments to help you learn how to write the actual report), safety assessments - 5% (quizzes taken online before each lab), pre-lab quizzes - 5%, lab work - 55% (submitted the day after each lab), post-lab quizzes - 10%. I won't lie; the course work is kind of a lot. We would have to take the pre-lab quizzes and safety assessments by Friday the week before each lab, to write up our lab procedure and print and fill-out safety assessment forms by the start of each lab, to complete our analyses by 11:59pm the day after each lab, to submit a post-lab quiz by the Friday after each lab, and to complete various writing assignments throughout the semester. Sometimes the work felt like a lot, but it ended up being doable. The pre- and postlab quizzes are pretty easy if you pay attention during the lectures each week. My best recommendation to anyone taking the class in the future would be to try to schedule your lab to take place before your lecture each week. It can be a bit confusing to have the lecture before the lab as you will cover the following week's technique before doing the current week's technique. Additionally, I would recommend going ahead and writing up the procedure and filling out the safety assessment form the day you have the lecture over the technique and even going ahead and doing the quizzes that same day because it's a lot better to get as ahead as you can so that it's not as stressful once other lectures start piling up. If you have questions, I would also encourage anyone taking this lab to email Dr. Jourdain because she is nice and responds to emails insanely fast! Best of luck to anyone taking OChem lab in the future. Y'all have got this!  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:CHE 3238 - I have had a few professors who weren't the nicest, but Dr. Jourdain is rude and makes you wonder why she is teaching. Students are just trying to learn and mistakes happen, to be fair if she was "rude" about safety it makes sense but she was rude about everything other than safety. It is unfortunate that every pre-med has to take her. She also makes it almost impossible to know your grade because she never gives you your current overall grade. She makes you calculate them. Here are the actually useful parts of this review, first and foremost her quizzes are tough, but open note take the quiz in advance before the quiz is actually due. In addition make sure you try to get the actual lab section with a good TA because that will be the deciding factor of whether you get in A or a B. Also try not to have her in your lab section because then it will further ruin your experience.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:CHE 3238 - I did not enjoy this lab. Not only does she grade harshly, but the real issue with this lab is Dr. Jourdain’s attitude. She is rude to the students unprovoked. I did not appreciate being treated like I was dumb because I did not know how to solve organic chemistry problems perfectly. Dr. Jourdain, if you ever read these please treat your students as you would like to be treated and let them make mistakes.  - Grade In Class:B

Comments:CHE 3238 - I took Ochem Lab with her and I'm gonna be honest...it was a lot of busywork at first. I would recommend focusing on CHE 3332 lecture more than the lab. The lab reports don't count too much of a proportion of your grade so don't spend your whole life on them. Just follow her guidelines and you'll be fine. Get the pre-lab work done early in the week . Do not wait to the last minute. The pre-lab quizzes were honestly the hardest part of the class since she makes you think about what's really going on in the lab plus there's some tricky math problems. (we were allowed to use notes for them, God bless) Carefully read those quiz questions!! The experiments themselves are actually really fun, it's just time consuming. It seemed like baking to me lol. She actually responds pretty fast to emails with questions about the experiment and quizzes. Overall helpful teacher. Also I recommend recording her lectures since she says some things you might not catch in the moment since it's a long hour and 15 minutes. A lot of those little things get put on the quizzes and even the final.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:3331 & 3238 - I took Dr. Jourdain for both Ochem 1 (3331) and Ochem lab (3238). I really am shocked with these reviews. For me, Dr. Jourdain was a fantastic professor for both classes. I really can't put into a BU Books review how wonderful of a professor and person she is. For Ochem 1, she taught in the same order as other ochem professors at Baylor. Her slides were fun, had good information, and she often had a funny joke for us to remember useful ochem rules. I ended up remembering and using some of them for ochem 2! She has office hours twice a week, and her door is always open. I went in constantly to ask her homework questions, and she never turned a blind eye to anyone who asked for help. I have a vivid memory of walking by her office and seeing her sitting outside her office on the floor with 5-10 other students asking her ochem homework questions. She cares for her students deeply and wants to help them in any way. She was a very gracious grader who absolutely believes in partial credit, as she knows ochem is difficult. I felt like her exams were fair, and as long as you could complete the homework, you would be fine for the exam. Her exams were mostly free-response, which I preferred for ochem, as I feel like it gives you more of an opportunity to show what you know. For ochem lab, she always came to class ready to answer any questions and show us that ochem lab can actually be really fun and interesting (she's a big fan of green chemistry if that makes your excited!). I was struggling with certain aspects in both classes and informed her about them. Without hesitation, she told me to come down to her office hours to work on them. I ended up getting an A in both ochem 1 and ochem lab, which seemed like an impossible dream to me as a freshman. But Dr. Roxane made it a reality! Along with all this, she's just a really fun person to talk to. She's funny, has had a lot of great life experiences, and is always down to talk about ANYTHING. I'm really sad that I won't have her as a teacher next semester, but I can't wait to see her shine with future ochem students!  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:CHE 3238 - I've surprisingly really enjoyed taking CHE 3238 with Dr. Jourdain! She is an incredibly kind person/professor, and is also exceedingly helpful with explaining complex course material and answering general OChem questions. She never rushed me in her office hours, or made me feel silly for not understanding something on the first try. I am in agreement with previous comments made regarding the time-consuming nature of this course, and while doing the pre-lab prep does take time, it is not at all challenging as you literally copy information from a Sigma Aldrich website into a notebook. The experiments were fun to complete and have definitely taught me relevant lab techniques.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:3331 - Plain and simple not a good professor. Always came into class grossly unprepared. Posted and finished the class powerpoints 10 minutes before the class started. Did not have any prep going into class. Let her exam averages be failing grades and was ok with it. Does not know how to teach at all. After the third exam average was a 47, she came into class the next day and blamed us for being "burnt out." The next exam average then proceeded to be a 42! Makes you feel terribly unprepared for ochem 2.  - Grade In Class:B

Comments:3238 - I have mixed feelings about the general Organic chemistry lab experience with Dr. Jourdain. On the one hand, the experiments were interesting and satisfying to complete. Even though I was one semester removed from Ochem 2, I was able to get by without having to remember too many specifics. The TAs are a risk as some will be gracious with grades and others will be sticklers for specifics. On the other hand, this class is a time vacuum. Doing the Safety Data Sheets, procedures, and tables took a solid three or four hours out of my weekend, which was annoying because it required zero skill or learning and all tedious attention to copying things down. I felt like most threats to my grade was not a reflection of my knowledge of Ochem, but rather the preferences of the TA, so get a sense of that early. In addition to the time spent on pre-lab work, the class lecture itself was not always necessary and would often be cut short due to a lack of lecture material to fill the period. I like Dr. Jourdain's teaching style and she is very kind and will help if you are falling behind. Overall, a tedious workload with a large time commitment, potentially nitpicky TAs and superfluous lecture period, but solid content and a helpful professor.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:3238 - organic chemistry lab: Your TA will make or break your grade. I thought it was an easy A as long as I did my SDS, completed the labs, and the post-labs. Writing the SDS and procedures take quite a long time (maybe a couple of hours) so don't wait right before your lab to start because you will not be allowed to do the lab. My TA was great, and I mostly got A's. Most of my points were taken off from the post-labs. Do well on the pre-lab quizzes because they're open note and can easily boost your grade. The final exam and 2 lab reports are worth very very little ( I think about 5% each ) so I didn't even study for the final. Roxanne will shame you if you don't remember something from Ochem 1 which is kind of unfair. She's a teacher and should never make us feel stupid for asking questions. Other than that, your TA is mostly in charge of your grade.  - Grade In Class:A

Comments:CHEM3331 - O-Chem lecture was atrocious with her ! At the beginning it was alright but towards the end she truly gave up on our class. We had an average on one of our exams be a 42 which with a 5 point curve goes to a 47. She rushes through things and a student in our class asked her to reexplain something and she wouldn’t . I thought the professors were supposed to have the students best interest at heart but no she looks down upon you if you don’t completely understand O-Chem at heart. This class did not prepare me for O-Chem 2. I’m cognizant this is a rigorous course but she made exams way harder than it should be.(refer back to that class average)  - Grade In Class:C+

Comments:3238 - OCHEM LAB. Her quizzes were incredibly hard not a fan. She did an excellent job in class explaining the topics though so I recommend attending the lecture. I had friends take this lab when other professors were teaching it and Dr. J seems to have made a positive improvement to this class structure. I am mainly upset about my lab TA though. He graded all of my assignments too strictly. It seemed like our class was being graded hasher for the same quality of work compared to other TAs. I wish Dr. J would look at our class averages and compare them to others since I feel should have gotten an A in this class. I literally got an 89 on both lab reports even though I followed the rubric my TA took off many points for insignificant errors. I also took the notes he left on my first lab report and changed them on the second one and still got the same grade. My other classmates complained about the same problem with his grading.  - Grade In Class:B+

Comments:CHE 3331 - She was possibly the worst professor I have had at Baylor. Her tests were insanely hard and after the class average was a 40 she curved it 5 points and told us it was our fault for not doing good and was just rude. She has office hours but is generally rude and looks down on you if you don't know the content, same with in class as well. I am sure she is a great ochem lab lecturer and a good person but she cant teach ochem 1, she just reads off a powerpoint.  - Grade In Class:C+

Comments:CHE 3238 - Ochem Lab is finally not that bad. Gone are the days of complaints of Sevcik and George. What changed? The pre-lab exams are open note and the only exam is the final which is 5% of your grade. The rest is still the same (10 labs with a lab manual with a lot of not important SDS writing + two lab reports ). It is now a lot easier to get an A in the class and Dr. Jourdain makes lecture a little more interesting. She also doesn't usually take the whole time with lecture which is great since most of it isn't needed to complete the lab though attendance is required. Just do the work and you'll probably get an A unless you TA for some reason grades ridiculous which I haven't heard of yet.   - Grade In Class:A