Rubin was the sweetest professor I've ever had! This quarter seemed to be his first quarter teaching in a while; I remember checking his last Bruinwalk reviews and seeing they were from 2003. He was not good at explaining lectures in the beginning but he seemed to make more sense as the quarter went on. If you take him going to TA office hours and discussions will help you so much on his problem sets (the TAs give you the answers and teaches it to you, which is how I learned most of the material). His lectures were boring sometimes but you can tell that he truly cares about his students.

Midterms and final was fair, and the final was pretty similar to the rubric. His grading scheme is also very, very fair and probably the best I'll ever get from a class here. I remember he brought his dog in a backpack into our midterm and final and it was the absolute cutest thing I've ever seen.

Overall, I had a rocky beginning since I wasn't used to anything ochem at all before taking the class and I had my doubts about Rubin's lectures, but putting in the effort to learn paid off in the end.

I love you yves

easiest class i've ever taken in my life. if you just do your work well, you'll be in good hands. some TA's even give you the problem set answers during discussion so i recommend taking a section at the start of the week than the end.
rubin is just a little clumsy and disorganized sometimes. he doesnt include participation points but his lectures couldve been done by literally anyone who can read/speak in english (everything needed to be said was already on his slides that he would post at the start of the week)
nonetheless, highly recommend rubin's lecture.

I honestly loved Professor Rubin. I know it was his first time teaching in a long time, and so it started out somewhat rough, but overall I couldn't recommend him enough. What sets him apart is the fact that he cares about his students. He did give us hard exams but he fairly adjusted the grading scheme to account for this. I thought it was very fair class overall and if you wanted to spend hours getting A, you could. His tests were open note open book and his grading distribution was:

≥ 97% A+
90–97% A
80–90% A–
70–80% B+
60–70% B
50–60% B–
40–50% C+

Overall great professor.

Made me realize that ochem isn't as hard (at least 14c compared to 14d) as people say it is. Exams are open note and therefore there isn't as much pressure going into the exam. The grades are curved on the syllabus so it's pretty hard to do poorly assuming you keep up with everything.