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Alice Mignerey CHEM403 Anonymous 12/10/2024	Similar to the other reviews, Mignerey does not teach radiochem the way she teaches gen chem. While the material of the course can be complicated, the questions asked in homeworks and exams aren't too difficult, and can be solved. She's really helpful in office hours, even if you only go to a few. She also lets you use any resource for homework and exams, and discuss with friends (only for homework). As a person, Mignerey is rude (and slightly racist), but as a teacher, she instructs the class well enough for you to get a decent grade. She struggles with technology, which makes the class hard to pay attention to, and she writes everything on the board (and often erases it soon after writing it). If you can muster the energy to pay attention, the class won't be too difficult. The textbook is also really helpful, but halfway through the course she also uses another textbook for certain units. I would suggest getting both textbooks to help with the course (maybe don't buy them though wink wink).
Alice Mignerey CHEM403 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/16/2024	Mignerey will fight her computer every class, but she is extremely smart and really wants you to understand the material. Radiochem is by its nature a difficult class conceptually, but she tries her best to make the grading easy. All of the problem sets and exams were open, take-home. You get to go on a tour of the nuclear reactor on campus as a field trip which was very fun. The textbook is horrific, but you can find it online for free. Don't skip this class because you will be lost.
Alice Mignerey CHEM403 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/18/2023	The only reason Prof. Mignerey is getting three stars and not one is for two reasons. Firstly, Radiochemistry is her specialty. She was proud to teach us all about her life's work and was excited to teach everyday. We even took a class trip to visit the reactor! Secondly, ALL of the exams, including the final exam, were take home! She would make the exam available after class on Friday and it would be due Monday by 11 am. We could use any resources we could as long as we didn't work with each other. That's about where the positives end. Prof. Mignerey would spent way too much time during class logging in and keeping track of files on her laptop. It was like a geriatric was just discovering what a computer is. She didn't even know what minimizing and maximizing a window did. It was excruciating. She had a very confusing lecturing style when writing on the blackboard. You kind of had to just write everything down and try to decipher it later. She also said that the material for the course is more like a graduate level course and it felt like it too. The exams, even though they were take home and open note, took me hours to finish. All in all, this class was worth it for an upper level chem elective.

Alice Mignerey
CHEM403

Anonymous
12/10/2024

Similar to the other reviews, Mignerey does not teach radiochem the way she teaches gen chem. While the material of the course can be complicated, the questions asked in homeworks and exams aren't too difficult, and can be solved. She's really helpful in office hours, even if you only go to a few. She also lets you use any resource for homework and exams, and discuss with friends (only for homework). As a person, Mignerey is rude (and slightly racist), but as a teacher, she instructs the class well enough for you to get a decent grade. She struggles with technology, which makes the class hard to pay attention to, and she writes everything on the board (and often erases it soon after writing it). If you can muster the energy to pay attention, the class won't be too difficult. The textbook is also really helpful, but halfway through the course she also uses another textbook for certain units. I would suggest getting both textbooks to help with the course (maybe don't buy them though wink wink).

Alice Mignerey
CHEM403

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/16/2024

Mignerey will fight her computer every class, but she is extremely smart and really wants you to understand the material. Radiochem is by its nature a difficult class conceptually, but she tries her best to make the grading easy. All of the problem sets and exams were open, take-home. You get to go on a tour of the nuclear reactor on campus as a field trip which was very fun. The textbook is horrific, but you can find it online for free. Don't skip this class because you will be lost.

Alice Mignerey
CHEM403

Expecting a B
Anonymous
01/18/2023

The only reason Prof. Mignerey is getting three stars and not one is for two reasons. Firstly, Radiochemistry is her specialty. She was proud to teach us all about her life's work and was excited to teach everyday. We even took a class trip to visit the reactor! Secondly, ALL of the exams, including the final exam, were take home! She would make the exam available after class on Friday and it would be due Monday by 11 am. We could use any resources we could as long as we didn't work with each other. That's about where the positives end. Prof. Mignerey would spent way too much time during class logging in and keeping track of files on her laptop. It was like a geriatric was just discovering what a computer is. She didn't even know what minimizing and maximizing a window did. It was excruciating. She had a very confusing lecturing style when writing on the blackboard. You kind of had to just write everything down and try to decipher it later. She also said that the material for the course is more like a graduate level course and it felt like it too. The exams, even though they were take home and open note, took me hours to finish. All in all, this class was worth it for an upper level chem elective.

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