<p>Use whatever’s comfortable, but I’d advise waiting until the semester starts. At Wake, a lot of professors put powerpoint slides up online, and if you want to print those out, you obviously don’t want to be using a spiral notebook. On the other hand, for classes where you’re taking all the notes, writing in a spiral notebook can be easier because it’s harder to lose a page from a spiral notebook than it is a binder. Generally at Wake, the humanities courses (including languages) plus math and your FYS and writing seminar are the ones where you’re more likely to take all your notes, and the sciences are the classes where you’re likely to get slides on BlackBoard.</p>