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O'Brien, Jennifer

Cumulative GPA: 2.56/4.00 with 16 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 2.56
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 2.69

Physical Education and Kinesiology Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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KINE 451 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 3:40 pm, Dec 2, 2010 Report Evaluation		Got an A. This class is, literally, a middle school class that she tries to make into a grad school class. She grades hard or easy depending on her mood. Some assignments people earned 7.25/10 and 8/10, then other assignments she\'ll give everyone in the class 10/10. She is way to technical on the exams, not hard, but just nitty gritty. So when everyone gets C\'s on the exam, she assigns 1st grade level assignments, such as creating a news article (has to be colorful and creative) to be turned in for the amount of points worth half a midterm. She should not be teaching at Cal Poly. She acts like a snotty high school student.

KINE 250 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 12:43 am, May 13, 2010 Report Evaluation		I wasnt that impressed. She just talked in a pretty boring way. The way she teaches may be practical, but not scientific. i.e. \"always wear a condom\" and \"carbohydrates are bad for you.\" And then you get tested on it. It was an ok class.

KINE 250 Sophomore Grade Earned: A General Ed 10:46 pm, Jan 14, 2009 Report Evaluation		She is a really easy teacher and all the exams are EXTREMELY easy... a lot of definitions and basic health questions ... no brainers. Dont even have to read the book or go to lecture, just know the def at the bottom on each chapter. One of my fav. teachers at CP

KINE 250 Sophomore Grade Earned: A General Ed 10:11 am, Oct 21, 2008 Report Evaluation		no homework, just midterms and extracredit opportunities, she uploads her powerpoints on blackboard, not necessary to buy the book, topics are 1) various aspects of health 2)sexuality 3) birth control 4) fitness 5)luxury diseases eg cholesterol, diabetes etc. this woman has some serious unresolved sexual inferiority complexes probably acquired earlier, all this feminist thinks about 24/7 even in sleep is the differences between the sexes. she never delivers the information objectively, instead always has to mix it with such subjective emotions, her biased humor and her bs ideologies. Only thing worth while i learned from this class is that people like her exist out there. She always goes of on tangents probably because shes the only one who enjoys it the most and daily looks forward to the class as an outlet to vent her aching biases and insecurities. overall that woman needs to take a trip around the world and learn that theres much more to life than just what runs through her narrow head.

KINE 255 Junior Grade Earned: A General Ed 1:47 pm, Aug 15, 2008 Report Evaluation		unnecessary sex info. throw into lecture to try and keep students attention.

KINE 451 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:02 pm, Aug 10, 2008 Report Evaluation		If you take Jennifer O'Brien for 451 be prepared to learn NOTHING new. This upper division class was treated like a joke. Her lectures had nothing to do with the exams (because she goes off on tangents) nor did her study guides. She can be funny and weird when she lectures which can be entertaining, but overall it's a waste of time because you don't learn anything that you didn't already know, and half of the class is a repeat of 303. I guess I'm just disappointed with the quality of instruction, she should stick to teaching Freshman.

KINE 255 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 3:59 pm, Jul 9, 2008 Report Evaluation		Many students do poorly in this class because it is so easy to ignore the reading. If you attend class andy spend a half hour per lecture reading (twice a week), you will do very well on her tests. Besides the manageable community service project, that is the extent of the outside work required. Take this class especially if your priorities are elsewhere and you need a fairly easy GE.



KINE 250 Sophomore Grade Earned: C General Ed 11:05 pm, Jun 12, 2008 Report Evaluation		Here's my opinion...Girls: take this class and enjoy it, because she's a feminist bitch. Guys: avoid this class, half the test is on female anatomy and living patterns. She'll throw in two or three questions about men to see if the girls were paying attention to something they didn't already know. I stopped going to class and still got a C though, so just take the tests and do the project and you're guaranteed passing.

KINE 255 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 3:47 pm, May 7, 2008 Report Evaluation		This class sucked! Everything that is wrong with this country and all the problems minorites face are due to white males according to this book. It was incredibly painful to just listen to it and then to especially read a text book that is even more boring. O'Brien is a great teacher. This class just sucked.

KINE 250 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 1:43 am, Mar 29, 2008 Report Evaluation		Loved her. Funny girl and made things more interesting in lecture. Take her its an easy class and I barely went.

KINE 255 Freshman Grade Earned: C General Ed 6:29 pm, Mar 26, 2008 Report Evaluation		This is the most boring class I have ever taken! Jennifer sits there and lectures for the longest 2 hours ever. She really knows how to put someone to sleep. Besides being boring its not a hard class. I only received a C because I only went for the first hour of class, that is if I even went to class. If you plan to take this course, I would recommend going to the lectures and keeping up on the reading, its not assigned, but its the material is on the tests.

KINE 250 Sophomore Grade Earned: B General Ed 8:11 am, Mar 25, 2008 Report Evaluation		She is a good teacher. She enjoys health, and there is no homework. 3 tests that arent cumulatvie and a paper (everyone gets 100 on it) are in this class. Its easy to get a B if you read book for test and study lecture slides. My roomate took it credit no credit and didnt study for two of the tests very thoroughly and got C+ on both of them. If your a dude and can get past her feminist bull that she alludes to regularly, it will be ok. And lastly she gets into some unnecessary detail about sex and her life. Ask her about Stewart........(has to do with her husband). Like i said, unnecessary.

KINE 250 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 11:29 pm, Mar 22, 2008 Report Evaluation		I really appreciated Jennifer's teaching style as a 200-person lecturer. She's pretty easy-going and genuinely likes teaching health, which is much better than listening to someone drone on about the topic. She likes to add interesting personal stories to her lectures & has lots of unusual info/stats about different subjects. Interesting overall. All her lectures are available online & if you do the reading/show up for most classes, you'll do fine. Try to be in class for guest speakers because she puts the info they present on the tests too. None of them are cumulative (including the final). Plus, she offers extra credit. Take her.



PE 250 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 10:29 pm, Mar 6, 2008 Report Evaluation		just read the book and powerpoints she puts up on blackboard...dont go to class it is a waste of time because she is pretty much an idiot. her two hour class is broken up like this half and hour of solid information you need to know for test and then and hour and a half of her talking about her sex life with her husband or other stupid shit

KINE 250 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 7:14 pm, Dec 10, 2007 Report Evaluation		easy class, funny teacher, no homework. three midterms, the final is just like the other two midterms just different chapters. you dont even have to go to class as long as you read the book. test questions are a bit detailed but its not hard to get a B in the class. she also offers some EC

KINE 255 Freshman Grade Earned: B General Ed 10:39 am, Oct 30, 2007 Report Evaluation		I absolutely loved O'Brien. I took her class at 7a.m. and she was definetley easy to wake up for. She was very witty and informative. There were only 3 midterms(the final was the third midterm) the whole time. You also had to do either 10 hours of community service or do an interview. Her clss was super cool and she got me laughing everyday. TAKE HER

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