Hascall, Antony  

This Professor is horrible. For lecture all he does is put a power point on and talk over it quickly. The power point isn't even availiable outside of class. For posting stuff online, he doesn't post answer keys like the other chem teachers do and offers no additional homework type things which could give aid in the class. I have talked to several students in the class and all feel inadaquetly prepared for the final while other students with different teachers don't feel too bad about the final. Hope this, do not take this teacher.

Hascall was very boring, he did a powerpoint lecture strait from the book, the only reason I learned anything in that class is because I outlined every chapter in the book we covered. He does not know the answers to many questions from students and would say that he didn't really know. His tests always contained a question that required many different formulas that we had never seen before. Overall he was easier than Neff or Retsek. The class is not that bad if you are prepared to teach yourself all of the material.

Tony is a little awkward when he lectures, but more comical than anything else. IT's not that he's at all funny, in fact I didn't hear him laugh or joke all quarter. It's just the fact that he's alittle man who wears shirts that are 5 sizes too big, untucked. He is one of the most straight forward teachers I've ever had. Lectures are all powerpoint presentations that are very well-prepared. If you become friends with you lab-partner and just take turns going to class to take notes, you'll be more than fine. I should have gotten an A if I didnt slack off the first 2 weeks and not take a single note. He quizes every week that he doesn't test and the quizes are easy problems from the optional homework. Office hours are a good idea with him because I doubt many people go to them, and its about the only way he'll ever know who you are. He will definetely prepare you for Chem 125.

It's hard to compare Hascall to all of the other Chem teachers at this school because he is the first one I had. At first the class was really overwhelming because of the amount you really need to study for it (I flunked the first midterm and quiz). I don't think he taught all that well, but he was prepared at least. Make sure you have a lab partner that actually shows up because mine wasn't there for 1/4 of the labs which makes it hard because you've got to work by yourself or with someone you don't know. Study, go to office hours, and learn to teach yourself a lot because Hascall may be well-prepared, but he is not a good teacher. Thankfully he curved my C+ up to a B, but I think that was because he realized how hard he had made the class.

Honestly, the guy and his tests are not that bad. He basically puts up about 3 full notebook pages or moer every lecture and that's the worst part of the class. (More hand cramps than any other class I've ever had) However, all of the notes he does present basically sum up chemistry for you so you never have to read the book. Whenever I chose to do homework, which was very rare, I would just skip problems I had trouble dealing with. Everything on the quizzes can be found in the previous weeks notes and everything on the test can be found in the quizzes. You cans kip the homework and do the weekly worksheets and be jsut fine. Do the midterm reviews and final reviews he posts on the internet and you'll pass the test just fine. Honestly, I heard a lot of horror stories of Chem 124 and with Hascall it hasn't been that bad.

Well this guy is an okay teacher. He doesnt explain things too well and doesnt seem to grasp the subject matter all that well himself. Labs are graded unbeliebably hard by his assistants, you get marked down for stupid stuff. The quizes (every monday) are pretty hard, he puts random stuff on them and they aren't really on the stuff he says they will be on. The exams are also hard, but a C or B is possible with a couple hours of studying. Try to find a better teacher if you can, but Hascall is alright.

Dr. Hascall teaches exclusively with powerpoints. While this works fine with some subjects, it is terrible for chemistry. They are copied straight out of the book, except they are stripped of clarity and important details. He doesn't prepare you for the labs at all either, and sometimes there will be material on a quiz that he didn't cover in class.

Dr. Hascall is an excellent professor. It's true that he uses powerpoint in his lectures, but he is by far more organized than other chem professors. He makes all the materal pretty clear and has relatively easy quizes/exams. Oh and look forward to a huge curve at the end of the quarter. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HASCALL!!!

I thought Hascall was a pretty good teacher. When I enrolled in his class, as recommended by a colleague, there were no polyratings for him, so I suppose he is fairly new here. However, he improved from when the earlier ratings were written (it seems he reads Polyratings and takes the criticism.) The Powerpoint lectures were easy to keep up with, and he posted them on the web as PDFs before each exam. The lectures are straight-forward and very organized, unlike Neff's. Homework and practice worksheets are optional, but helpful. All I could say I didn't feel very prepared for was the common final, but he curves so that's not too much of an issue. Also, sometimes the TA misgrades an assignment (this not only happened to me but other students from last quarter) but if you bring it to his attention, he'll be glad to fix it if you truly deserve the points. Make sure you understand the material, and this class is easily passable. Overall I feel I learned a lot in this class and would recommend Hascall for chem-124.

Hascall was ok. Just ok. Theres a freakin huge curve at the end of the class. Which makes sense because the final exam average was a 27 percent!!! I would reccomend taking Hascall.

Tests are completely fair, only surprises are questions regarding your labs that show up out of nowhere (and with little or no classtime discussion) on tests. But, as far as the lecture material goes, Hascall gives you everything you could possibly want to prepare for the exams If you understand and complete all the homework and worksheets (only takes like an hour total outside of class), the quizzes and tests will be a complete breeze. Definitely take Hascall if you have the option.

he seems like an okay guy that knows what he does most of the time, but he should give more worksheets or something to help his students out.

Hascall doesnt really present the concept clearly. All he does is lecture using the computer. in that case, all you will be doing is staring at a computer screen and filling in the blanks of the worksheet that he gives you. You dont even learn just by filling in the blanks. You actually have to study study study. it is hard to study when the professor doesnt even present the material clearly. I studied very hard and did all my labs and still got a D. I studied for the exam for more than a week and still got a D. Dont believe that he will CURVE. He doesnt not CURVE the class. The people that rated him before said he will curve it but the answer is no. If you have him, i urge you to take a different teacher. My roommate had baxley or retsek (i dont remember), but the notes that one of these teachers give them is very very helpful. i had to use my roommate's notes just to get a underserving D.

To the jackass below -- If you studied so hard, why did you only get a D? Why is it the professor's fault that you don't know how to study or are just plain stupid? This is not Statics or Thermodynamics class, it is a 100 level chemistry class. Better get ready to change your major to business!

This class is difficult no matter how you look at it. I got a 33/100 on my first midterm(I dont suggest it), but I was able to get back to passing. You cant skate through this class, but Hascall had good notes and was fair with grading. With what I heard from friends, he also has easier assignments than other teachers, although TA's do most of the grading anyways. I'd say take him if you can.

Okay, so this is a hard class no matter what, but Hascall definitely gives you the hardest chance to get a decent grade. Trust me, I'm retaking it and I've had the experience of two other chem 124 profs. Both of them give way more assignments that help your grade and give easier tests and quizzes. You can get the job done with Hascall, but if you have the choice, take a different professor, seriously. It's not only that it's difficult to get a decent grade, the other profs actually walk around and lecture person to person, while Hascall stands at his computer and walks you through a powerpoint presentation. It's definitely not the best way to learn and I much prefer the other professors for this class. I've never even seen the guy smile.

Hascall's teaching style is really dry. I SERIOUSLY reccomend Baker for 124 if you want to -gain- anything out of the class. Hascall's powerpoints don't enrich must of anything and it's pretty much him talking for two hours each lecture.

This man is the driest, shortest, most miserable little man I have ever laid eyes on. Bring a pillow to class and be sure to pick a spot where he can't see you. A decent teacher at best. I saw this guy crack a smile ONCE in ten weeks and when he did, it sent chills down my spine. I thought I'd seen the devil himself.

If you had a good amount of chemistry in high school take this guy. I did not think that he was the greatest instructor, but I could easily rely on my past knowledge and build on it using the book and lecture notes. From what I hear his tests are easier than the other 124 professors, but he does have some sort of test or quiz every week. That got a little bit annoying. He is somewhat hard to approach and i think he has difficulty answering your questions in such a way that you might understand. He lets you download his powerpoint lectures, but has blanks put in them so that you have to go to class to get all the material. This kind of reminded me of high school. His lectures were boring and be prepared for the final. It's common with all sections so it is a different test than what you'll become used to.

Hascall lectures on powerpoint slideshows, and that just tells you how boring the lectures are. He tends to deflect questions by saying, "well let's move on to the next point on my slideshow, and you will understand." He might not understand the question at all. TA might be even more helpful and courteous than him. Good thing about the class is the worksheets, because the similar problems will show up on the 3 exams he gives. And if you are an engineering major readying for EIT, DON'T go to his review session. He puts together things from Chem 124 and calls it a "EIT review". Two things he said at the very beginning of the session should be enough to deter people from staying: "I don't know how long it will take to go thru this review material; I don't know what is on the EIT." Yeah....the only thing he knows about the EIT is that it is a multiple choice test. Another EIT review you probably don't want to go is the EE with Hawes.

Chem 124 combines lecture and labs into two 2.5-hour classes and then a third 1-hour lecture, which should equate to 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab per week. Hascall chooses to lecture the entire length of one of the 2.5-hour sessions and then another hour in the second before the lab; sitting through essentially 5.5 hours of lecture. Hascall's presentation is very dry and these lectures are very boring, so I found a solution by skipping the days he would lecture for 2.5 hours. He lectures by presenting PowerPoint slides on his computer, of which you take notes from. When I was in class, I never took notes. The notes are simplified concepts from the book. You should be able to read a chapter of the book in about an hour, whereas my lab partner would be taking notes for the greater part of 3-4 hours/week. He assigns optional homework that is not graded or collected, your grade is entirely based on your labs, quizzes and exams. The quizzes and exams are pretty straight-forward, he's a decent grader who is sometimes generous with partial credit (I've found the worse you do on a test, the more likely he is to give more partial credit). The TAs who grade the labs are pretty harsh, they will take off points for an assorted amount of absurd reasons. The final was a common final and it was definitely harder than his midterms, which indicates that his class may be one of the easier ones to take.

Hascall is a timid professer who is very enthusiastic about chemistry. The lectures are boring and the material he presents is taken strait out of the book. The quizes and tests are a nightmare because I felt that I understood all the material, but the test questions usually covered topics that the teacher would barley cover or skip over. The suggested homework probloms were nothing like the quiz or test questions.

I left in a daze every day after this class. The kind of daze that you feel after you've been hitting your face into a brick wall for three hours. True, he does lecture straight from a powerpoint, but he offers the same powerpoint online to be downloaded, so there is no need to take notes during class. Be sure to read the text as well, it's the only way to gain clarifying details. This class is rough, study your ass off and you should be able to escape with a passing grade. Hascall may have a small stature, but he has a massive schlong that can, and will, rape you into oblivion.

(WARNING: I'm going to make this kind of long/detailed because I know a sh!tload of people, including myself, make big decisions purely off these comments and ratings, so reading this hopefully will help you and not leave you indecisive). Alright so, this is the second time I've had Antony and I must say that taking him this time around made the overall process much easier because the format was identical. The only real difficulty of this class is the material itself--it's much more sophisticated and detailed than Chem 124. In Chem 124, I got an A- and I didn't even know how Antony taught yet and after taking him again for 125, I received a B-. So, you can't blame him totally for your grade. (But I do admit, I had quite the load this past quarter: ME 212, MATH 244, CE204, and of course CHEM 125, so my B- may have been better...) Anywho enough about me, let's see what advice I can give... Oh yea I never read the book, except when I would do practice homework problems he suggested to do and to look at random charts or appendix stuff. You CAN learn from his lecture and his powerpoints because he breaks it down to the most important crap and he finally realized that we needed more hands-on stuff and included about 8 worksheets throughout the quarter. He gives either a quiz or a test every Monday, which you will see from his course schedule on his website, the most important/useful thing you'll use in that class--soooo convenient. His tests are just like his quizzes except a few pages longer; 3 tests and about 5 quizzes, always A and B so don't think you can peak at your lab partners. Multiple choice, in my honest opinion, is what fucks me up on tests and quizzes because they're always worth 2 points on quizzes and 3 on tests EACH... out of 40 points for quizzes and 100 points for tests, and there are always like 8-10 of them. BE CAREFUL. This is my biggest downfall in this class and if I had read a little more to understand the concepts I might have done a tad better on them. OH WELL. I studied for about 3-4 hours the night before or the day of the test and did pretty alright. Be ready to write a lab write-up every Monday night for your Tuesday lab, or whenever you have a lab to do because they're worth 5 out of the 30 points. Make sure to have some caffeine or Aderol handy, maybe some snacks, because he uses his whole lecture, and you'll be staring at a powerpoint in front of your computer all class. People really should appreciate the powerpoint notes he gives because all you have to do is fill in the blanks as he talks and as they appear on the computer screen. He pretty much babies the lazy kids. So yea, labs are always pretty planned out with step-by-step instructions so it's pretty hard to screw those up, but it's real easy to screw up lab write-ups. Ask questions as much as you can in class to the T.A.'s and Hascall because if you bug them enough they'll pretty much give you the answer to key stuff. ALWAYS go to class, because he always gives worksheets after long lectures to benefit you mostly, but they're worth 10 points and if you don't show you can't make it up... which I've learned from personal experience. But... BUT... worksheets are KEY to your success because all the written out/calculation problems you take on tests and quizzes are pretty much altered worksheet problems. DO THEM and fix them if you get them wrong. Hascall is the shit because he drops your lowest worksheet grade, lab write-up, quiz, and for our class, since the 3rd midterm was a disaster (63% average? I think 66% and 67% on the first 2) he said he'd replace it with your final score IF you did better (The final, basically the 3 midterms put together, 20 MC questions, 8 calculation problems with like 3-4 mini-parts for each one). Um.. I'm kind of rambling right now but uh ok I'll finish with some final words: GO TO CLASS EVERYDAY, DO THE WORKSHEETS, READ THE BOOK ONLY FOR PARTS YOU DIDNT FULLY UNDERSTAND, READ THE LABS THE NIGHT BEFORE (he posts everything on the website) AND DO THE LAB WRITE UPS, PRINT THE NOTES OUT BEFORE THE LECTURE, STUDY YOUR QUIZZES AND WORKSHEETS FOR THE TESTS, ASK QUESTIONS DURING LAB AND WORKSHEET FREE TIME.Oh yea, always wear shoes to class so you don't have to look like an idiot with plastic around your feet and sandals. Overall, Hascall knows his shit but you just need to ask him shit to get the shit out of him. Get it? Pretty much, I'd take him again if I the oppurtunity. AND THAT'S ALL.

Hascall is a very timid teacher that presents the material in a questioning manner. He basically reads right out of the book and some of the test questions are completly out of left field. I would try not to take him, but if you do dont bother going to the lectures, just do the homework and read the book on your own time and youll do okay.

MEH. Hascall is a nervous teacher and you can see sweat in his arm pits. He can't talk and write at the same time but he explains everything thoroughly. Very boring though. He's a decent teacher.

The lecture itself was incredibly boring and nearly useless. Basically, if you do the homework and perhaps even read the chapter, you're sure to do fine on the exams. Each Friday is either a quiz or a test. He's an incredibly awkward man so I don't suggest going to his office hours.

One of the worst classes i took freshman year. It started off simple enough, not much work, quizzes were easy. Then the test came and holy crap, this guy does not teach you what he expects you to know. his lectures are impossible to follow. he just reads the book nervously and gets confused by his own examples and slides. he doesnt like questions and isnt very good at answering them. he seems like a smart guy, but he simply cannot communicate what he knows. if at all possible, take someone else.

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS!!! I saw his polyrating before I signed up for his class but his was the only class still open, BIG MISTAKE. He is by far the worst professor I've had. I studied more for this class than any other class that I've taken. His quizzes and midterms don't even same like they were written by the same person, I had a B average on the quizzes and in lab but his midterms are impossible. He can't explain anything which isn't helped by the fact that he mumbles through his power point slides way too fast to write everything down. When I would ask him questions he would refuse to make eye contact and made me more confused than before I talked to him. He messes up his examples during lecture and gets confused when his numbers aren't what he has written down. He can't teach and is overall the most awkward person alive, do yourself a favor and take another professor.

Missed the first day, went to the second day. Went to the midterm. Went to the Final. Three days of class total. I got a B, easy. This kind of shit gives our school a bad name.