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What are you soon-to-be college students planning on doing about note-taking? Are you going to take notes with the old-fashion pen+paper or a laptop?

Wouldn't enough typing annoy a professor while he is talking?

Also, what other things are you guys planning on doing to get good grades 1st semester?

By Catbert (Catbert) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 08:42 pm: Edit

I don't know if they'll let you have a laptop in class. I'd go for pen and paper.

Try to read the chapters before the class - you'll spend less time taking notes on every detail because you will have already read - and highlighted - the important stuff. Makes it much easier (a tip from my older brother that I intend to listen to!).

By B18c1cx (B18c1cx) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 09:38 pm: Edit

thanks... where does ur bro go to college?

By Justin185 (Justin185) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 09:54 pm: Edit

if you are taking engineering classes you will be writing many symbols that can not be quickly inputed into a computer for note-taking.

By B18c1cx (B18c1cx) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 11:51 pm: Edit

thanks Justin, I think I might be a Latin major though.

By Randy80016 (Randy80016) on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 07:34 am: Edit

Crap, I didn't take notes in High School..did alright- 5s on most of AP tests. A/B Average, will we ACTUALLY need to take them in college?..I mean honestly, if you have a textbook in front of you, and a brain, you can usually figure out anything you need to ..and anything that is rote memorization intensive is usually available already in a form more clear than my own cryptic writing... Such as a foreign language, chemical formulas, equations, etc.

I figure that throughout history, enough notes have already been taken on every possible subject matter- many of which have been formed into complete books, with, get this- organizational structure- that I wont have to take notes.

But eh, the (paper) notebook will accompany me just incase I decide I would like to get the number of the dime sitting beside me in this "class" of yours.

Ah F it, Ill just bring a pen, or eh, borrow hers to scribble her number on my hand- besides, the number being plainly visible like that is bound to pique the interest of other women, I just have to remember not to wash it.

By Serene (Serene) on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 12:34 pm: Edit

Randy: Yes notes are very very important
For math/science classes, textbook may not always give the solutions/proofs.
For humanity classes, there's sooooooo much outside the books. Even in high school they're very important... =)

By Batman (Batman) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 01:43 am: Edit

My daughter is using a combination of pen and paper along with a digital recorder that can download the lectures onto her laptop and burn them onto a CD or transfer the audio files to her PDA.