O'Bryan

2-4 hrs/week

O’Bryan is an amazing professor who is passionate about what he teaches, its a great class atmosphere. Theres a lot of class discussions, but theyre pretty chill. Lots of reading and essays, but theyre on comics so its not a super intensive load. His feedback is great and really helped me improve my writing skills. Highly recommend!

4/18/2025

chill guy & easy class; can be argumentative. i agree w/ a lot of his views and was still nervous in class discussions. also, note that on the syllabus he reserves the right to mark a grade up or down when the grade does not match his assessment. i didn't attend office hours, so probably do that to avoid being marked down. improved my writing tho

12/23/2023

I loved my time with professor O'Bryan; he was a great teacher and cared about his students. His lectures were always interesting and I absolutely loved attending class. He was extremely easy to talk to, and was extremely knowledgeable about writing. In taking this class, I know my writing got better - STRONG RECOMMEND

5/10/2023

I started the class liking O'Bryan because he is funny, but throughout the semester things changed. He lost his patience and had a really short fuse during discussions. My class was small and cooperative, so there was no reason to get angry with us. He was also overly assertive with his political views. Not helpful for my Legal Studies minor.

12/25/2022

Did not even grade our essays in time for the final or other essays, so feedback was useless. He was also overly critical without real reference to the rubric, which always included way more difficult content than what he would actually describe in class. One of the most difficult and time consuming classes I've taken at WashU

12/15/2022

Pretty funny and easy to talk to. But a few things he did ticked me off: He often talked way too much, to the point where he was just dominating the conversation rather than letting us speak. He was also very disorganized. He also made a lot of assumptions about students, so I didn't often feel comfortable sharing my true views in the classroom.

5/9/2022