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What do you take notes on in class?

oiprocs

oiprocs

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I'd prefer to use a 3-ring binder, so I can add paper/lab reports/fact sheets when necessary, but every lecture room/hall I've been in never has enough desk space. I assume this is to counter-act cheating/fit more seats, but it sucks.

Thus I use those 80-150 page spiral notebooks. They gotta have pockets though so I can fit in graded homework and exams. By the end of the quarter though, that thing is packed, and if it's a heavy workload, then it's about to explode.

Tips, advice, sympathy?
 
one of those larger divided spiral notebooks
have separate binder to store class materials (handouts, graded papers, etc.)
eventually can pull the notes from the binder and stash there as well
 
I normally have four subjects a semester so take a notebook that's divided into 4 sections - all lecture notes go there. that way i only need to take one book everyday and i can leave it in the bag. all my homework etc goes into separate notebooks.
 
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
I normally have four subjects a semester so take a notebook that's divided into 4 sections - all lecture notes go there. that way i only need to take one book everyday and i can leave it in the bag. all my homework etc goes into separate notebooks.
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Maybe I need to write smaller. My experience with those 4 sectioned notebooks is that they have only ~50 pages in each section. I always seem to think I won't have enough papers for the quarter.
 
I use to use loose leaf + clipboard, then put them in a big three ring binder when I got home, but that was too much work so now I just use a spiral notebook.
 
There was one guy in our engineering classes that used a laptop. I'm not sure what software he used, but I think it was from Microsoft. The notes he took were amazing . He could whip up partial differential equations with ease and made beautiful sketches that looked much better than our pencil and paper versions did. This was all with a keyboard and touchpad - it wasn't a tablet.
 
I always wanted to just get a laptop but then I figured I'll spend all that money, and half the classes may not even allow laptops or electronic devices so never bothered.

But it took me all the way up to my graduation to realzie that all the time I spent trying to take notes instead of just listening, was waste. Never did I ever go back to those notes, ever. It's either I knew the subject, or I didn't. Trying to learn stuff by heart without understanding it just never got me anywhere, which is why I used to bomb the cisco tests all the time. Its all by heart stuff, stuff that in the work force, you can lookup anyway. So as long as I passed that's all that mattered to me.

First day on the job they give me a RSA SecureID and a Pix so I can setup a test bed vpn lol. 😀
 
Originally posted by: oiprocs
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
I normally have four subjects a semester so take a notebook that's divided into 4 sections - all lecture notes go there. that way i only need to take one book everyday and i can leave it in the bag. all my homework etc goes into separate notebooks.
Click to expand...

Maybe I need to write smaller. My experience with those 4 sectioned notebooks is that they have only ~50 pages in each section. I always seem to think I won't have enough papers for the quarter.
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we generally get lecture notes in the form of powerpoint slide handouts so there isn't that much to write. 50 pages over 12 weeks (for us) = about 5 pages for every 2 hours of lecture material - I guess its JUST manageable.
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I always wanted to just get a laptop but then I figured I'll spend all that money, and half the classes may not even allow laptops or electronic devices so never bothered.

But it took me all the way up to my graduation to realzie that all the time I spent trying to take notes instead of just listening, was waste. Never did I ever go back to those notes, ever. It's either I knew the subject, or I didn't. Trying to learn stuff by heart without understanding it just never got me anywhere, which is why I used to bomb the cisco tests all the time. Its all by heart stuff, stuff that in the work force, you can lookup anyway. So as long as I passed that's all that mattered to me.

First day on the job they give me a RSA SecureID and a Pix so I can setup a test bed vpn lol. 😀
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So true!
 
I get college ruled composition notebook http://bestuff.com/images/imag...position-book-7755.jpg

easy to fit 3-4 in a bag (1 for each class).

For most courses I only need 2 per quarter, but once one is filled up just switch it out for the new one. Much nicer than trying to fit a couple/few 5 subject notebooks...


as far as storing papers - well that's another matter. I get a file folder with multiple tabs.

http://blog.scrapbookfinds.com...ads/2007/08/625903.jpg

but without the pretty flowers...unfortunately : (
 
use a notebook that has 3-ring binder add on capabilities, if you're still interested in the 3-ring binder thing, that way it's more versatile as opposed to a bunch of sheets fluttering all over; of course you could use 3-ring binder dividers or folders

as far as the laptop, thin tablet pc's and microsoft one note might lend a hand?

300 USD laptop; usually junk for engineers. I wouldn't go this route.

but if you write small, use the notebook, usually the case for more rigorous engineer classes in my opinion; if you didn't already learn this one in high school.

gl hf dd ds
 
I use pads of engineering paper. duct tape the glued side so they will not come apart, and a folder for homework/quizzes and stuff. for labs i usually have a 3 ring to keep each lab separate.
 
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
There was one guy in our engineering classes that used a laptop. I'm not sure what software he used, but I think it was from Microsoft. The notes he took were amazing . He could whip up partial differential equations with ease and made beautiful sketches that looked much better than our pencil and paper versions did. This was all with a keyboard and touchpad - it wasn't a tablet.
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THis sounds expensive.
 
Use to be on a spiral notebook. Laptops are jokes unless you want to watch shit in class, or you want to type word for word everything the lecturer says. And that only works in non-technical classes.
 
Laptop...I can't read my writing, and besides I do better keeping my eyes on the teacher while I type. What's even better is just turning on the webcam and recording class.
 
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
There was one guy in our engineering classes that used a laptop. I'm not sure what software he used, but I think it was from Microsoft. The notes he took were amazing . He could whip up partial differential equations with ease and made beautiful sketches that looked much better than our pencil and paper versions did. This was all with a keyboard and touchpad - it wasn't a tablet.
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Heh, the software was probably OneNote. Some people are amazingly proficient in it.

I prefer pencil and paper, though.
 
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