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How do you take notes in college?
SeattleLove13
Registered User Posts: 76 Junior Member
In high school, and well all my other years of school before that, I've always taken notes by hand in just a binder or notebook like everyone else in my class does. I've only brought my computer to school when we had finals and were going over study guides or for when we were working on essays in English because it was just easier than remembering to email it to myself each night. I can type pretty fast and would like the ability to have neat, printed out notes in college to help with organization, but I'm not sure if its a good idea/typical to take notes on a computer? Or does everyone use their laptops? I'm just wondering what method you/most people in your classes use to take notes? Thanks for any responses!
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I go to a semi-small LAC and honestly, most everyone uses pen and paper and the people who use laptops can be annoying when everyone else is hearing their keys clicking or they're just on Pinterest anyway.
I tried taking notes on a computer, but I found that I remembered better with a pen and paper. I take notes on looseleaf paper, neatly organized in a little binder. I have a separate binder for each class that contains the syllabus, notes, returned classwork, assignments to turn it, etc. Keeps me completely organized:)
I'm a biochem major/ Vagelos scholar at Penn. For my freshmen year, I took 4 science/math classes each sem and one humanities. From my experience, most people in my humanities classes took notes on their laptops...it was more convenient that way since most people can type faster than they write + many humanities classes are more "relaxed" so it's inevitable that people like to occasionally check Facebook or go online shopping during class. In the science and math classes, most people use pen and paper b/c there's a lot of formulas/greek symbols involved so it's harder to type out. Plus, professors often go over example problems and those are much easier to copy down by hand.
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What I really loved about this pen is that while I was writing notes, the microphone in the pen was recording the lectures. So later, I could tap my writing and it'd play back what the instructor was saying at the time. A lifesaver during exam studying! You can upload the writing/recording to the software on your computer. I plan on using this pen often for my French classes this fall.