She was extremely rude and condescending to me in lab 3L. Is such a harsh grader and genuinely has no empathy for anyone.

She curves down and makes TA's take off points of assignments if the class average is too high. One time the TA told us to try on an assignment because the in the one he was talking about it was actually possible to get full credit if you got it all right. We were all excited for that. Also from how the TAs talked about her she was not nice.

i asked my lab TA if i could make up lab/ get online data so that i could take my bio exam due a conflicting schedule, and she said YES, but to ask pazos first. so i did, and she basically told me that it was my fault for making my schedule like that and that i could not skip lab. so i took the L on bio and got a 0 on that bc of lab. bruh.

So incredibly unprofessional. makes ta's grade down and harder, but doesn't give a rubric or examples of how it should be done, just expects students to "know better". Final is a mix of Chem 1a and 1b, but gives no resources. no lecture notes, no practice tests, no review sessions. Final is based on Chem 1a and 1b, even though the course isn't???

avoid her. haha you have no choice

Had Pazos for Chem 2AL/BL. She is a complete joke of a professor. Rude, condescending, and doesn't care for her students AT ALL. Besides the down curve, the whole 2BL class was unnecessarily hard because TAs were forced to take points away arbitrarily to keep averages lower. I truly don't understand why this woman is so obsessed with her average.

This class is ridiculous. She's chungus. I actually don't understand why she's still here ... ucsb needs to do better. This is literally GEN CHEM it is not that deep at all. She should go to organic chemistry where being crazy would make sense. Sorry to everyone that has to take lab, it doesn't get better after AL either.

i don't know who hurt her, but she is a hateful and pathetic excuse for a chem professor. she genuinely wants her students to fail, avoid her at all costs.

Worst professor ever, take her if you hate yourself. The TAs are instructed by her to grade you down and not give you points even if your lab reports are perfect, confirmed by the TAs. She gave an absolutely diabolical final for 2AL and 2BL back to back, literally straight questions about random things that she probably generated from ChatGPT.

Don't know why she is a “professor” if she hates her students and wishes the worst on them. Doesn't give any material to study for the final, and gives out the topic list the day before, when she had weeks to let students know so they could actually study! She is the most pathetic “professor” I have ever seen. I don't know how she still has a job.

Terrible class structured by a terrible professor.

yeah you're cooked 🤣 be prepared to be taught nothing x10

Think of the worst possible thing and double it, and that is pazos

genuinely the worst class i've had in college. menial tasks that are worthless that take up hours and hours + a long + strict lab report + a final that is pointless and goofy (work not from the course corresponding to it) + weirdly hard and just way too much work. She doesnt let you have excuses, but she can have as many as she wants. egotistical.

About the final for 2BL, she put questions from 2AL on the final, which was never mentioned in her study guide. The final questions that she put on the final were completely random, and no matter going over every lab and the questions associated, she made that test difficult. There's no reason for all of that. Class average was 50 for the final.

I initially had an A at end of class, and my grade was curved down to a B+. She described this act as fitting what the other grades should be (which was around a 'B' average apparently). The lab material was NOT difficult at all, in fact it was all review from chem 1a and 1b. There was literally no reason to curve down my grade.

Incompetent, terrible labs, rounded grades down, should be fired

evil class, evil professor. unfortunate if you have to take the class with her, it will be miserable, so much time is wasted doing menial tasks that take hours and hours every week all for 2.5 units. TA's have to grade super harsh because of her saying they have to. final "study guide" related nothing with the final. is egotistical. just terrible.

1 star since zero stars is not an option. Tough grader and purposefully wants to fail students. Pre-labs and post-labs took an insanely long amount of time. My TA stated that she could get in trouble for giving students good grades.

Unclear expectations and lazy teaching covered up by projecting on students.

Genuinely the worst professor at the school. Read her reviews under Texas Rio Grande since most are from UCSB students. Either gives an impossible final or curves down to meet the B+ average she made up. Doesn't even teach the lessons and hardly communicates with TAs and students. Take the class over the summer if you can bc she will ruin you gpa.

You have to copy the lab procedures word for word in your lab notebook. Incredibly condescending and annoying emails- doesn't seem to care about students' wellbeing or grades. You're in the lab for all 4 hours, and you do hours of work outside of lab each week (for a 2.5-unit class!). Final is so hard, and there's not enough time to complete it.

She is my #1 opp. The lab itself isn't really that hard it just depends on your TA. I got lucky with my TAs for 2AL and 2BL and both were pretty chill. She will curve your grade down to reach her quota of A's and B's. Her finals are also stupid and pretty much don't cover any content we did in the lab.