Since day 1, Dr. Reilly has been a very friendly professor who clearly enjoys organic chemistry and wants to share that enjoyment with her students. That being said, this quarter Dr. Reilly has seemed very overwhelmed by the transition from remote to in-person instruction among other things, and the effects of her frazzled state have been felt by her students around exam time. Many practice materials were posted within only a couple of days of each midterm exam, making it difficult for students to gauge the potential difficulty of exams far enough in advance. As a result, many students have not been doing well on exams in this class, which are also arguably excessively difficult. Dr. Reilly has sped through the content for the second midterm and final exam so quickly that class morale is low and most students are concerned for their grades. I do not blame Reilly for the pace at which she teaches the material--in fact, I think she does a good job at lecturing--but I do think that the structure of CHEM 14D yields itself to be this fast and that this aim is very ambitious and perhaps detrimental, especially in the quarter system. All in all, Reilly is a fairly good professor who may have just been having a rough quarter in regards to stress and organization. The course CHEM 14D itself, needs to be re-evaluated to make its goals more reasonable and its students more likely to succeed.

Gotta help Amber out here cause everyone's dunking on her. The class is hard af and to be fair she is kinda scatterbrained and writes insane exams. That being said, she let us drop our lowest midterm, set insanely low grade cutoffs (I'm pretty sure you need to get like a 34% to actually fail the class), and in addition to the cutoffs is curving us up at the end of the quarter if the average is below a 75 or so. In other words, although this class stressed me out like crazy, I don't think my ability to pass the class was ever at a real risk and tbh I enjoyed the content. Reilly is super duper sweet as a person and is honestly not a bad lecturer, it's just that there's sooo much content to cover in 14D so she has to go pretty fast. Anyway, hope this brings her average up a bit lol, I didn't think this class was nearly as bad as most of these reviews.

Amber is the funniest professor I've ever had. She doesn't even know that she is funny, which makes it even funnier.

Might get a lot of hate here but I thought Reilly was a great professor. Not perfect because no one truly is but her lectures were engaging even though she talks in 2x speed and she's super funny. People crapped on her because her exams were hard which, to be fair, they were. I did not do so well on them but I've never seen people more quick to blame the professor it's kind of sad. People complained that the tests didn't reflect the difficulty of the practice problems which is a fair point to make but let's be real... professors rarely do that. I swear almost every class I've had the exams are always harder than what they give you for HW and stuff and a lot of these entitled people in the GroupMe complained about *literally* anything that she would do. Like some people complained that about her midterm dropping policy (which helps you *surprise*) because it made the grading scheme "complicated" and then people even complained about her giving extra credit opportunities in lecture because it wasn't fair to people on zoom... like what do you want fr... I get that people are free to express their emotions and a lot of things were posted last minute and there were some errors on answer keys on worksheets and all that but it's hard to make everyone happy and be perfect I honestly just felt bad for her that's why I'm writing this. Reilly I hope you see this because not everyone hates you!! People tend to complain more than praise so I hope this helps her image a bit. While I think there were a number of things she could have improved on (as other reviewers said) I think it's more of the nature of the class because who in the chem department decided to put all the reactions into a single quarter?? It's so much content it's actually unethical. Plus she was nice enough to keep exams online this quarter so its open note so you don't have to memorize as much like you would normally do for in person tests. She even provided summary sheets for every chapter which had every single reaction which actually saved my ass. Also because the second midterm average was absurdly low she made the final so much easier like it was almost too generous. It was the same length as a midterm and we were given 3 hours (instead of 1.5 for midterms) and the questions were just straight up easier. Ochem isn't easy so no matter who you take, it will be difficult so don't go into this class thinking you should be given an A just because you want to "go to med school" in the future. Overall difficult class but I liked her lectures and personality a lot!

Everyone is out here hating on Amber, and I’m not 100% sure why. Like she is by no means a perfect professor but she is pretty reasonable. First of all she kept exams remote for all of winter quarter. Second while the class was hard, as ochem is, she’s curing the class average up to a B- which is not bad at all. Plus there was plenty of extra credit and she dropped a midterm. Like it’s a hard class, and I spent way to much time on it but Reilly is always happy to take questions after class or in office hours. She’s pretty accommodating but can be hard to contact besides class/office hours since she doesn’t respond to emails. There disorganization in terms of posting problem sets, practice questions etc. But her lecturing kinda worked for me. Like I had to some out side self studying with Kahn academy and other YouTube videos, but overall her lectures were clear. It just took me a while to get used to her notes. Anyways she isn’t a bad as everyone is saying and if you work hard an do ok on exams you’ll be more than fine in this class.

i usually don't leave reviews because organic chemistry as a topic itself is hard. but it's because she was the one teaching it, that it was so bad. she made everything unclear. she gave keys out wrong and way too late. don't go to bed before 11pm before a test day because you'll probably miss 10 of her emails. don't recommend