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Prof: Lori Petrovitch / Fall 2025
Feb 10, 2026
There was a lot of information about a lot of subjects without a whole lot of context crammed into on semester, but to be fair, there's not really a better way to teach introductory chemistry. Hybridization is the hardest thing to wrap your head around but once you get it its mostly just memorization.
Bhor model, Schrodinger model, hybridization, orbitals, solutions, ions, chemical cells, redox reactions.
She was great. A little hostile at first but very accessible and kind once you get to know her. It's clear she has more of a passion for teaching higher level chemistry but she still does a great job with CH 101
There's really nothing you can do to prepare, this was my hardest class first semester but if you study a lot you should be fine.
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Prof: Abida Haque / Fall 2025
Feb 10, 2026
Really the only useful thing I've found this course had was experience with excel. It also teaches you other stuff about computers that I have not used since but who knows it make be more useful if I were a more computer-oriented engineering major. It was pass fail and you can just stop doing anything the moment you hit the threshold, I left during the middle of a test because I had enough points. Overall not that hard a class but also not that useful.
They cover use of excel, the basic structure of computers like the kernel, the shell, ect, and things like file transfer and github.
I honestly don't remember my professors name because I never directly interacted with them but it was probably Haque.
It's literally such a free class
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Prof: Joshua Robbins / Fall 2025
Feb 10, 2026
I'm not really sure the point of this class as it was essentially 2 credits worth of busy work. There was a group project that was a large part of your final grade and my group wasn't bad but I've heard some horror stories from others.
The purpose of this class is essentially to help students decide what engineering discipline they want to do but I don't know that it really influenced my decision at all.
I think they rotate engineering professors and make them teach this class because Dr Robbins didn't seem very interested in the class in general. On the bright side that meant he was very lenient about a lot of stuff.
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Prof: Zachary Lewis / Fall 2025
Feb 10, 2026
The physics department at NC State is generally not well received but I didn't think it was that bad. Granted I did take AP Physics prior to this so I had some background knowledge. The main challenge is figuring out the direction for everything, not leaving out any forces, and how to properly combine the equations you're given.
The course starts with kinematics and momentum, moves to forces, then work and energy, and ends on the rotational form of all the above. Rotational is definitely the most challenging part.
He was a decent professor, occasionally pretty funny during lectures, and very open to feedback, not very accessible outside of class though
Have a good understanding of what exactly momentum and forces are going in
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Prof: Ala Alalabi / Fall 2025
Feb 10, 2026
The first half of the course is incredibly fun and very interesting, just different ways to integrate and its applications. However, the second half of the course is entirely different types of sequences and series which, while an extremely important and useful subject to math in general, is not presented with a lot of context or very well in general.
Different types of integration and infinite series
Decent but new at the time I took it
Working ahead is always good, brush up on trigonometry and identities.