Thanks to Dr. Hayton's eccentric dedication to torturing students, I studied my ass off but still got my GPA tanked. His homework was nearly impossible for me, and so were his exams. His Canvas site was too disorganized to provide me any useful thing. He was among the professors that convinced me not to attend grad school in chemistry.

Professor Hayton makes 173A so fun! It's such an interesting class. His homework were challenging but you can get really good help from the TAs and office hours. He's really accessible outside of class and always give you hint to the problems. He is engaging, lecture is written on board, and very organized. He's one of my favorite chem professor!

He tried his best to help students to understand the materials as long as they asked. His problem sets were hard especially the last one with research papers. However, he would give us some helpful hints to do them (except the last one) during his office hours or after lectures. So ask if you have any questions.

Had him for both 173A and 175. Unlike many professors in this department who tend to ramble during their lectures and make it hard to keep up, Hayton keeps his lectures very level-paced and provides clear, thorough, and concise notes. Make sure you go to class! Exams can be challenging but they're fair. Learned a lot from him

Great professor

Materials on tests does not resemble practice problems. Gone the week of the midterm. Most of class thoroughly confused and scared about their grade. Embarrassed me when I had a question.

Hayton is a good professor. For 173a, he presented a lot of materials but succinctly gave us the most relevant problem techniques and interesting concepts. Easy to understand and very helpful during office hour, just got to go prepared to ask exactly what you don't understand. Do not miss lecture since he does not post notes online. Very nice guy.

Don't be put off by his ratings on Chem 1C. In Chem 173A Hayton is a really good teacher and one of the funniest in the department. At times he might go over difficult concepts a little too quick and the homework is also really hard sometimes so the class was doing rather badly. However, he is generally quite helpful and made an easy final.

Success in this class all boils down to whether you have a chemistry brain or not. If you're like me, all you have to do is the book problems and you'll get an A no problem. He explains very well actually, looking back (I'm in ochem atm). I didn't read the book, just do the problems and practice midterms and you'll get an easy A.

he makes class really interesting because he gives you real world applications and likes to joke around with students. he isn't that bad because of the curves, and prepares you for ochem really well. he's very approachable in office hours too

Reading/book problems didn't help. I focused on CLAS and its review sessions and did alright with the curve. HOWEVER, he can't teach, doesn't post lectures online (not that they correlate to the test material) & was completely RUDE during office hours (obviously hates teaching and it shows). Take any prof over him PLEASE, I suffered in this class.

Agree with everyone else.. he makes chemistry more difficult. He is bad at explaining concepts and then his tests poorly reflect what he's taught. Averages on midterms were around a 60%. At least there was a curve.

Absolutely horrible. Does not teach well, is very arrogant, and gives very hard midterms and finals. Although the curve is huge, it will not help you much as all his tests were pretty much guessing games. I felt I knew everything, but I guess not. CLAS and book probems are not enough, although they help.

THE WORST CHEMISTRY TEACHER so far this year. The assigned aleks problems will not help you in this course at all and his practice midterms are not a very good indicator of the extreme difficulties of his class.

He can come across as arrogant at times and his teaching method is just average. The material taught in class and his tests are completely different from each other. Definitely work out the assigned book problems.

Definitely makes chemistry more complicated than it needs to be. You think you understand the material from his examples &homework but his exams are nothing like them! If there are other profs available, take them instead!

Hayton is one of those professors that makes the material much, much more difficult than it really is. Tests are impossible, even when the concepts are all so simple; it's almost like he wants you to fail. Office hours were somewhat helpful, but the online homework does not prepare you at all for his difficult exams (had averages of around 60%).

For Chem 1A and Chem 1B, I had a great professor - Petra Van Koppen. Unfortunately, Hayton is nothing like her. He truly cannot teach. He gives examples of problems, but fails to fully teach concepts or show how things are related. He has a poor command of the class, and the first midterm had a D average and was nothing like his past exam.

Go to class. He's not a hard teacher. This was his first time teaching a large lecture so first midterm was way easy... second one was HORRIBLE, and the final was tough but fair. just do the homework and go to lecture and you should be fine

He is pretty clear in class, first midterm was very fair and easy. Second midterm was impossible the class avg was 48%, final was fair. He had a very good class curve in the end. Go to clas. With curve he is alright.