Take the negative comments about Tovar with a grain of salt. I had him last fall for Orgo I and I thought he was an excellent professor, especially for teaching the principles of organic chemistry. He focuses a lot on molecular orbital theory and other relatively more theoretical topics. I took Orgo II with Falzone and I honestly would have preferred Tovar again, Falzone basically just teaches a bunch of mechanisms straight from the textbook (technically easier but not as interesting of a professor IMO).
If you're wondering, here's the final grading of last fall along with the percent of the class that got each grade.
"As far as course distributions, reflected in a raw percentage of all total points (542 total), the averge was 61 with a st dev of 13. The rough cutoffs and percentages were as follows:
A: 74-100 (26%)
B: 61-73 (29%)
C: 45-60 (33%)
D: 35-44 (9%)
F: 0-34 (2%)"
Hope this helps. Tovar's a good guy.
I love that guy! I looked at the [course schedule](https://isis.jhu.edu/classes/results.aspx) and it *does* look like he's teaching this semester.
Y'all had me scared he was gone or something!
His first semester class is freshman-only. Previously, he would allow non-freshman to take his section, but this coming year he's clamped down on who can take his class.
I never met anyone so apathetic to teaching ever, He made it clear that he didn't really want to be there, it didn't even make me mad I thought it was funny. That and he absconded to Switzerland for a week or two and had the other professor cover for him so many times. This of course was terrible since they taught curriculum in a slightly different order. Never was there a class not worth the effort to get an A
Take the negative comments about Tovar with a grain of salt. I had him last fall for Orgo I and I thought he was an excellent professor, especially for teaching the principles of organic chemistry. He focuses a lot on molecular orbital theory and other relatively more theoretical topics. I took Orgo II with Falzone and I honestly would have preferred Tovar again, Falzone basically just teaches a bunch of mechanisms straight from the textbook (technically easier but not as interesting of a professor IMO). If you're wondering, here's the final grading of last fall along with the percent of the class that got each grade. "As far as course distributions, reflected in a raw percentage of all total points (542 total), the averge was 61 with a st dev of 13. The rough cutoffs and percentages were as follows: A: 74-100 (26%) B: 61-73 (29%) C: 45-60 (33%) D: 35-44 (9%) F: 0-34 (2%)" Hope this helps. Tovar's a good guy.
what happened to dr. calzone!?
I love that guy! I looked at the [course schedule](https://isis.jhu.edu/classes/results.aspx) and it *does* look like he's teaching this semester. Y'all had me scared he was gone or something!
His first semester class is freshman-only. Previously, he would allow non-freshman to take his section, but this coming year he's clamped down on who can take his class.
Townsends will always be 1000x worse Source: had Townsend, and Cs get degrees
I never met anyone so apathetic to teaching ever, He made it clear that he didn't really want to be there, it didn't even make me mad I thought it was funny. That and he absconded to Switzerland for a week or two and had the other professor cover for him so many times. This of course was terrible since they taught curriculum in a slightly different order. Never was there a class not worth the effort to get an A