Another question, in college dorms, do you have to bring your own desk to put a desktop computer/dvd player/ all that good stuff on or are there desks in the room already there for you to use?
ConstipatedVigilante
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I'm fine with a pencil/paper. My girlfriend uses her Macbook Pro and loves it. She's really good at taking notes - she has Word configured so that she can type up notes in a format similar to a notebook, and she's pretty good at putting in diagrams just with the touchpad. She can type her notes faster than I can write, but sometimes I think learning the skills of what to take notes on rather than just typing everything up is important. She tends to write everything down - I just put down the stuff that I think will be on the test, in a more concise format.
I've found that even though I type infinitely faster than I write (and possibly because of this), I simply don't remember material as well unless I write it. The act of writing--because it is inherently slower than typing--requires greater processing and reworking of the material, which are crucial components of learning.
Typing allows you to record more information, but because you're able to "work" with it less, you just aren't able to recall it as well. That is, unless you actively summarize the notes you type, in which case everything should work out fine.
Typing allows you to record more information, but because you're able to "work" with it less, you just aren't able to recall it as well. That is, unless you actively summarize the notes you type, in which case everything should work out fine.
RaistlinZ
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in every dorm room I've ever been in (and there've been a lot, on many different campuses throughout the mid-atlantic / new england) the college provided at least a bed, dresser, desk/chair, and some type of closet or wardrobe.
but really, as far as note-taking goes, I'd plan on pen/paper... chances are pretty decent that you'll run into at least one professor during your 4 years that won't allow laptops in class and you'll be f'd if you've let your handwriting atrophy.
if your handwriting sucks... suck it up and fix it. the vast majority of your tests will be hand-written as well and you'll need the graders to be able to know wtf you wrote.
PieIsAwesome
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I don't see why anyone would need the "speed" advantage of a laptop for note-taking. Note-taking isn't transcribing, if it is then you are doing it wrong. The only things I write down word for word are equations or definitions or other very specific details.
I was in a class once where the lady in front of me was using her laptop to check her ebay auctions during the entire lecture and IMing her friends.
ConstipatedVigilante
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It can be annoying when the professor has slides full of information and clicks through them too fast.
Mind your own business. I see people on Facebook all the time during lecture, but I don't care. The professor shouldn't care either - it's their opportunity to learn something and they're wasting it.
Sometimes, in a really pointless morning lecture, I sleep at my desk for a minute until the next slide comes on, write important points, and go back. My Archaeology professor for Anthropology is really, really boring and he puts out lots of irrelevant information that won't be on the tests.
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredsci...9/02/doodlerecall.html
doodling is benificial to attention.
using a laptop generally is not.
i find the noise annoying. and its more like dictation than note taking. when you need notes like in math/science the computer sucks hard at note taking. in soft classes its useless to robotically type what the prof is saying.
doodling is benificial to attention.
using a laptop generally is not.
i find the noise annoying. and its more like dictation than note taking. when you need notes like in math/science the computer sucks hard at note taking. in soft classes its useless to robotically type what the prof is saying.
Laptops are bad if you just type everything that is said. But they're good if really know how to take notes, most students don't know how to do this.
Use OneNote if you plan on using a laptop, it's probably the best M$ product ever.
Use OneNote if you plan on using a laptop, it's probably the best M$ product ever.
Depends on the class, I've done paper notes, notes on a laptop, and notes on a pda with a keyboard. The PDA with keyboard was probably the best since I could easily switch from typing to drawing something...
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note taking tools
http://lifehacker.com/5108130/uni+ball-kuru-toga
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003411.php
"Designed in response to the problem of uneven lead wear, the Kuro Toga has an ingenuis mechanism in the barrel. As you write the mechanical part that holds the lead slowly rotates. Instead of wearing the lead down to a flat chisel point? you're witnessing this phenomenon when you see your pencil strokes change from super fine narrow lines to more broad calligraphic style strokes? each stroke of the pencil turns the lead a tiny amount allowing the lead to evenly "sharpen" itself on the paper instead of wearing way one side. It's an astoundingly simple concept, but one that seems entirely lacking from any other mechanical pencil we've run into."
.18mm signo pen
http://www.jbox.com/SEARCH/signo/1/
http://lifehacker.com/5108130/uni+ball-kuru-toga
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003411.php
"Designed in response to the problem of uneven lead wear, the Kuro Toga has an ingenuis mechanism in the barrel. As you write the mechanical part that holds the lead slowly rotates. Instead of wearing the lead down to a flat chisel point? you're witnessing this phenomenon when you see your pencil strokes change from super fine narrow lines to more broad calligraphic style strokes? each stroke of the pencil turns the lead a tiny amount allowing the lead to evenly "sharpen" itself on the paper instead of wearing way one side. It's an astoundingly simple concept, but one that seems entirely lacking from any other mechanical pencil we've run into."
.18mm signo pen
http://www.jbox.com/SEARCH/signo/1/
I make cartoons and comics out of stuff in bio classes, particularly diseases and immunology related stuff. It's an epic war inside your body right now!
Perhaps you should mind your own business? Should you really care that I noticed that the lady in front of me was showing her IM and ebay auctions to everyone behind her, and that she even verbally acknowledged that fact within earshot of the professor? Or that I tried to answer a previous poster's question with this fact as a possible answer to his query?
Pshhh.
I never aspired to operate in stenographer mode in class. I always found it most useful to jot down the thoughts I synthesized from listening to the lecture.
I wish tablets were available when I was in college, or heck useful and affordable when I was in grad school (both in mathematical disciplines). From a non-user, it seems like the best of all worlds, especially with respect to archiving notes. Most of my notes have been lost or tossed in the recycle bin. <sniff>
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