<p>Hello,
I am starting ChemE this semester and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on programs that help with classes. Like I found a program called Dragon that helps with writing papers and taking notes and such. I know that the note taking is a bad example as it doesn’t help with any Chem or physics stuff but any help would be great.</p>
<p>Thank you,
Cpl Dill, Bryan
USMC</p>
<p>note taking software is bad example? or note taking is a bad thing?
lol</p>
<p>Okay. First chill, don’t get frustrated.</p>
<p>I don’t know how Dragon works. But I don’t believe in those things. I think writing needs to be more intuitive and personal. If you mean grammar checking, spelling checks, those should be by your brain as well.
When you begin to write real technical writings, whether it’s for you boss, for your research, or for class, Dragon may and should hurt you.</p>
<p>Note taking should be as natural as possible.</p>
<p>Now, for chemE program. The best way to study any course in college is hard work.
You will agree with me when you are in college.</p>
<p>Take good notes, do homeworks, practices enough, and have questions post it somewhere on the internet, and look for help on campus. Physics, math you can visit physicsforums.com, it’s an extremely famous site.</p>
<p>If you need more notes, and more insights, you should google stuff like, let say calculus 3 tangent plane</p>
<p>google -> pdf tangent plane calculus</p>
<p>or lecture notes pdf
or whatever it takes.
I have done it so many times for the past two semesters. Those sources helped me.</p>
<p>thank you a bunch, guess I am overly excited about starting and not wanting to fail.</p>
<p>Hahahaha.
But I have a suggestion, and I being serious.
Whether you have taken a semester or two in college, whether you have a part-time right now, whether in the future you spend your time in lab or internship program, whenever you have time you should begin to look into the contents you will learn in the following semester, especially during summer time.</p>
<p>And again, I am being serious about the googling fact. :)</p>