I do not recommend taking 2AL and BL at the same time as you mostly write lab reports in 2BL. Professor was very nice and helpful.

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

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???

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.

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.

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.

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.

The lab class is a lot of work but it's not bad. I took it as a third year transfer and this class was a lot easier than some of my other labs. The calculations aren't difficult and you have lab time to work on them. Follow the rubrics and you will be fine. Pazos was very nice and helpful when I had a medical emergency.

This class made me realize why I want to do research. I had a lot of fun taking this class and I think I really understood how to explain my data. The prof was very responsive and helpful and so was my TA. It was cool taking a class with only chem majors. Make sure you follow the rubrics provided

Prof was nice and my TA was very helpful. If you go to the Profs ONDAS office hours she rarely has people go to those so you can ask her advice on what to do with a chem career. I liked being able to plan my own experiments in this class.

The class itself is time consuming but not difficult and the final was doable. Only interacted with her via email and she was very responsive and accommodating so I appreciated it. I've never met anyone's grade who got curved down but people say it happens but my grade pretty much stayed the same and some friends grades got better.

Never met her in person but my TA was great which made the labs a lot better. The final was hard but not impossible. She is known to curve down but my grade didn't change with any curve so it can be fine. The final was really weird and many equations were unbalanced. Overall it was fine and you'll survive.

I thought I was going to end up with a B+ in this class but ended up doing better. The class is a lot of work but if you take your time doing the work its not bad. She is really nice, not sure why others are saying the final was difficult if the average was a 75%. I've never taken a chem final with such a high average. She makes it fair.

She was very caring and willing to help me learn what I was doing. She takes the time to listen to her students and I could tell she cared about me improving. I learned so much in this class.

Lab reports took sooo long and she forces the TAs to grade harshly on them. Also all TAs grade differently so your grade depends on your TA. You'll never see pazos unless you go to her office hours but its way more useful to go to your own ta's office hours. The final combines chem 1a and 1b and is pretty hard and then she also downcurves.