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 :)

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!

Reilly was kinda inconsistent this quarter. She's usually known for being super responsive and quick to update students with any changes, but this quarter seemed to be the opposite. Replying to most messages at the end of the week all at once with an update email, delaying deadlines (which was not necessarily a bad thing, just added onto the inconsistency), and having the class weighed heavily on the final. Again, this is a lab class so a majority of the points were TA dependent, but the labs were definitely forgiving. However, having 40% of your grade depending on the final seemed pretty unreasonable, considering that there is no midterm to bump it up and many were calling for an online exam. Class was good but could've been much better.