Anyika is a quite poor professor and I am tired of acting like she isn't. Her lectures do no better at teaching than the textbook itself, her test averages are consistently significantly lower than other OChem averages, and she fails to prepare students WHATSOEVER for her exams. do well on the first two because the third quiz and final are awful.

This has to be one of the hardest class I have ever taken here at UCSB. The content was already hard and messy but Anyika made it harder by hiding crazy tricks in her tests and I dislike how points were either all or nothing. The final was destructive to say the least but the curve she gave was very generous at the end of the day.

Anyika's tests are very hard and can be demotivating at times, which is the only con I can really make. But this is intrinsic to any O Chem course. However her lectures are very concise and well taught. Almost everything important is covered in lecture, but I recommend reading the textbook for review. Always do the textbook problems and DON'T CRAM.

I have never put as much effort into anything as much as this class, yet the work goes by unrecognized. The midterms were really difficult, but fair and you will do well if you put the work in. BUT be prepared to basically teach yourself the entire course by reading the textbook. Final was HORRIBLE and super unfair, it was stuff we had never seen

This class was the hardest I have ever worked for. Studying 6 hours a day still gets you nowhere. She is condescending when you ask questions, and when she does reply, its usually one word answers. There are things on the exams that were never taught in lecture, and then she is surprised when the entire class average on the exams is 50-60%.

This course is really difficult, but Professor Anyika does what she can. She'll teach you everything you need to know for tests, but sometimes there's exceptions and purposefully difficult questions in there to get you. Class averages for this course are low, but there should be a curve.