Michelle Brooks

This professor has taught: BISI701, CHEM131, CLFS520, CLFS619D

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Michelle Brooks Expecting a B Anonymous 01/20/2010	I agree Dr. Brooks was an unusual character but she was somewhat helpful. I took the course during the spring and failed lol. But when i took it in the summer i got a B. Point of the story is that taking this class during the summer is much easier and you have more time to focus on the material and more time to study. It is faster paced during the summer but the advantage is that some original course material can be skipped. For example during the spring semester their was Organic and inorganic chemistry involved in Chem135 but in the summer she took out all of the organic chemistry!!!! WARNING this happened only when i took the class with her and during the summer. Not saying other professors don't do this either but in general during summer classes the professors only having a limited amount of time to teach the material so they usually only pick out the "important stuff" so they can teach it on time.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/20/2009	Dr. Brooks is an unusual character. Some days she seems so nice and is willing to help you out any way possible, and some days it seems like she has pms and hates the world and wants you to get an F. All I can say is that I worked by @$$ off to get an A in this class, and it was the most workload I had out of any class. She curved the class so that if you had an 85% or higher, you would get an A. The three exams were difficult, especially the multiple choice part. Although the final was really easy, just make sure you write all the procedures and every chart from the lab manual. Overall if you really want to get A, get ready to work.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting a B azn12icefarme12 05/17/2009	Epic fail class. 3 exams + final for a 2 credit class. There is a ridiculous amount of work for this class as well. Lab reports aren't short and the grading is VERY VERY inconsistent. I've compared my lab reports with others and some people will get points deducted and others won't for the same answer. It was difficult to study for exams. It was strongly based on application of the material. There was 1000 points total. CHEM271, the corresponding lecture, had only 500 points total and the work load was very small.
Michelle Brooks CHEM277 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2009	Lab report grading was pretty rough due almost entirely to significant figures and graph/table details. I did the most work for this class out of all of my classes due to all of the extra projects that 272 did not have (e.g. wiki page and oral presentation) and the 2 labs a week. Dr. Brooks creates challenging exams, but if you actually do any of the assigned reading (requires less than an hour to review all experiments' reading on an exam) and look over returned lab reports they are quite manageable- just memorizing calculations from reports is not enough. Chem272 would have undoubtably been easier, but 277 gives some insight into writing abstracts, writing reports, and scientific presentations. Dr. Brooks can be intimidating at times, but I think is overall responsive to concerns and reasonable.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/03/2009	I have mixed feelings about Dr. Brooks and this course. The course has way too much work for a 2 credit course (3 exams, a lab every week, and a final vs. 2 exams, a final, 2 quizzes, and 2 problem sets for 271). I had more work in this course than any of my other courses. On the other hand, I have never learned so much from a chemistry lab. I feel like I actually did take something away from this course and have a better understanding of certain things. The lectures are somewhat unnecessary to attend especially if you can follow the powerpoints on your own. However, during some lectures, she gave you hints and answers to things you wouldn't normally get. I didn't interact with her too much throughout the semester, but I had a couple of problems and I never had anything bad to say about any interaction with her. I thought she was pleasant and helpful and was really there to teach you.
Michelle Brooks CHEM277 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/23/2009	She was very patient with our class and also entertaining in lecture. She sometimes was impatient or seemed like she had better things to do, but was overall very helpful outside of class with individual questions as well. Grading was a ***** at first but the class got used to it. Several people in the class had an uncurved A, but she nonetheless curved more anyway.
Michelle Brooks CHEM277 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/08/2009	Hard class. 272 would have been a breeze.
Michelle Brooks CHEM135 vbury 02/25/2009	I took AP Chem in high school and got a 4, which I thought was pretty good. The School of Engineering only gives credit for 5's, so they still made me take 135, which was basically everything I learned in high school. As you can obviously tell, this class was an incredible waste of my time. I will say, Dr. Brook's patience with our class was impressive, considering how downright rude we were. That being said, her lectures were still mediocre, and I learned way more in high school than in this class.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting a C cninferno 12/26/2008	Her lectures were at best mediocre. They sometimes helped me with doing my laboratory reports, but usually they gave too much extraneous information that we would never have to remember or use for our exams. Overall, her exams were VERY difficult. To get full credit on all questions, you'll have to have in-depth knowledge of what's going on "backstage" and know EXACTLY what you did in lab, what happened, why you performed a certain procedure, and why you obtained your specific data/results. In other words, her class was informative, but was much too demanding for a 2 credit course. The co-requisite course (CHEM 271), which is also 2 credits, is MUCH MUCH easier compared to this class, especially if you take Dr. Brooks.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/20/2008	Dr. Brooks is a horrible teacher. As people have said before, she seems like she is nice but she is a straight up mean person. Her lectures suck, she tries to be cool and talk about drugs and sex but picturing her having sex just makes me gag. All she does in lecture is review over her slides, which she posts online anyways and are only slightly helpful when doing the labs. The labs take forever. Taking this class will seriously ruin your academic and social life. Assuming you are taking 14-16 credits, you basically have to spend as much time on this worthless 2 credit class as ALL of your other classes combined. The labs are graded horribly. You can do nothing wrong and get questions completely wrong because you do not do the problem exactly the way she wants you to, or just get points off of every question because your sig figs aren't perfect. Apparently half of the lab manual is copied straight out of wikipedia and also some of the lab procedures are written incorrectly. Several people had to re-do large portions of labs because of the TA's were incapable/uninformed of this. When I told Dr. Brooks that one of the lab procedures was wrong she insinuated that I am an idiot and should have known that the procedure was wrong just from reading it. The TA's suck. She's given horrible TA's purposely, and she tells them that they can't really help you if you go to their office hours. The fact that this two credit class has a lab due every week, prelabs, 3 exams and a final is bullshit. This class is such a waste of time and a GPA killer because of the ways she does the grades. I feel bad for anyone who has to take this class with Brooks in the future, too bad she's the only one teaching it next semester. For the record, I have a 3.8 GPA as a chem major, so I am not just some idiot who writes shit like this about every teacher.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/18/2008	will fuck up your GPA and probably laugh about it to her cats. Doesn't care that shes messing with your future. Tried to give us a 2% curve until there was an uproar.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2008	'alyz's' review is spot on... Her slides are sometimes helpful with answering the post-lab questions. Her exams are pretty challenging and difficult to study for. She seems like she would be a pain to deal with individually (I avoided this)...but she is entertaining and seems nice enough in lecture. The titration labs are really frustrating. So many trials..so many data points...uugh. On the whole, it is an annoying lab.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 alyz 11/13/2008	Teaches from slides, sometimes helpful with labs Lab exams hard Super picky with sig figs (ugh!) Seems nice but when you talk to her she's just plain mean Tries too hard to be cool (aka drugs + tattoos)
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Expecting a B+ vdawg 07/01/2008	She's a good teacher, very approachable outside of class, goes out of her way to make the assignments as fair as possible. Lab reports are honestly not that hard; if you go to lecture, she practically does the whole report for you anyway. But her exams are absolutely ridiculous. They are unlike anything on the lab reports, and require an incredibly deep understanding of the material.
Michelle Brooks CHEM135 Expecting an A DocFool 06/09/2008	Dr. Brooks is eclectic and amusing. She does her best to get through a large amount of material in this course, and sometimes has trouble getting it all out in an effective manner. This is largely due to the requirements placed on the course by the engineering department. I thought she was remarkably patient with our class considering how disrespectful it was. Any pause was immediately filled with talking from all corners of the auditorium, making it very hard for me to hear her, even from the third row. She is approachable and willing to help students during office hours or outside them. You can generally get a few more points out of her on tests. You will get through this course if you try. It isn't supposed to be easy, it is intended to weed out people who don't want to be engineers. Once it's done, you don't have to take any more chemistry if you don't want to.
Michelle Brooks CHEM272 Anonymous 06/02/2008	Class was extremely difficult. Most labs take a long time. The lab reports took forever and were hard. Some were graded easily while some were graded really harshly. She made her midterm and final almost impossible. Overall, very bad lab. She did curve in the end but not that much.
Michelle Brooks CHEM135 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/22/2008	She tries to make everything harder in this class because she doesn't like having to teach engineering students and she feels as though they should be put through hell. In general, she is a ***** and I would definately not recommend her at all. Her tests are extremely hard (averages around a 50) and the grading is usually messed up on them. Homework is also hard. Try and get another teacher...