In University Or College how do you...

take notes. I take notes with a simple pen and paper. I am thinking about taking a tape recorder and recording some of the lectures but i am not sure. I am do my bachelors in Bio so i need to draw sometimes and i just can't do it fast enough or accurate with a PC.

Paper and pen (pencil in math)...

Always a number 2 pencil in math

Always a number 2 pencil in math

ASRCSR

I use mechanical...those darn things break sometimes though...so i keep back #2s..

Pencil and notebook. I write faster than I type, plus it is easily transpotable, and I like being able to write side notes in the margines and being able to draw diagrams.

Pen and paper.

wow i thought people used laptops mostly...yarou1000

Thats what i thought too. At least half the class has a laptop and 25% of them are on minclips. I saw one guy on Gamepot. Thats right i look at peoples screens when i am bored.

I got a netbook back in April (right around the time school ended) and have been using it every day this year in university. I used to never take notes and did well. But now I can actually take notes and have them there if I need them. And it also really helps pass the time if the lecture is boring. It also gives me the ability to look things up on the internet if I want to know more about them.

EDIT: Though, I still take notes in pencil for when I go to Sanskrit club. Since writing languages, especially ones with complex alphabets, is difficult in any other method.

[QUOTE="yarou1000"]wow i thought people used laptops mostly...ASRCSR

Thats what i thought too. At least half the class has a laptop and 25% of them are on minclips. I saw one guy on Gamepot. Thats right i look at peoples screens when i am bored.

Pen and Paper. I don't want my Labtop getting Stolen or Broken. I find taking notes helps me absorb information better too. Math Class is killer though, nothing to do but stare at your blank sheet of paper. A Labtop you can at least doodle or something.

Pen and paper. I never pay attention if I'm onmy laptop.

I always carry my laptop with me, but I always do everything school related with pen and paper. Everytime I've tried getting out the laptop I never actually take notes.

Pen and Paper. I don't want my Labtop getting Stolen or Broken. I find taking notes helps me absorb information better too. Math Class is killer though, nothing to do but stare at your blank sheet of paper. A Labtop you can at least doodle or something.

Snipes_2

or look up how to do the equation. Thats the only advantage i find with having laptop during a lecture. Don't understand a word or topic then just google it.

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

Pen and Paper. I don't want my Labtop getting Stolen or Broken. I find taking notes helps me absorb information better too. Math Class is killer though, nothing to do but stare at your blank sheet of paper. A Labtop you can at least doodle or something.

ASRCSR

or look up how to do the equation. Thats the only advantage i find with having laptop during a lecture. Don't understand a word or topic then just google it.

It's not that I don't understand what he's doing, it's just that I don't find it interesting. :P

paper and pen for me

i dont even use pencil, its pen only, which is a disster when my friends tyr to read my notes becuase i doodle a lot too

I just sit there and listen

Usually a pencil and paper.

I don't always take notes since my professors all post or email their lecture notes or outlines.

Pen and paper. I didn't do the whole laptop thing because I don't retain the information as well as I did with my notes. I have a very detailed, elaborate way of taking notes and the laptop can not handle that. And I found myself being distracted doing other stuff instead.Sajedene

It depends on the class. I type my notes in most classes...except for math.t3hrubikscube

thats pretty gifted if you can just sit there and remember the lecture without notes

laptop, my hand writing can be so bad that I couldn't even figure out what I was trying to say.

Mechanical pencil and paper. Writing equations on a laptop is a waste of time when it could take you less than 5 seconds to write it on paper?

[QUOTE="t3hrubikscube"]It depends on the class. I type my notes in most classes...except for math.ASRCSR

thats pretty gifted if you can just sit there and remember the lecture without notes

Paper and pen (pencil in math)...

Xx_Hopeless_xX

If it's not a science class, I'll type. If not, I either write a few notes, but chances are I'll just buy notes if the professor doesn't post any power points.

If it's not a science class, I'll type. If not, I either write a few notes, but chances are I'll just buy notes if the professor doesn't post any power points.

Renegade_Fury

For math classes pencil and paper. For everything else laptop.

Depends on the class. In some classes, the teacher just reads straight from the text book and gets the test questions from there. so i just zone out and daydream in class, then read the chapters the day before the test.

In other classes, the teacher actually teaches stuff, but still uses the book as a guideline. for those, I pay attention in class, but dont take notes. then I go over the book before the test.

Then there's the classes that practically force you to take notes (I use pen and paper), because they actually want the class to be hard

Pen and paper for everything but for my computer science class I use my computer.

Pen and paper for everything but for my computer science class I use my computer.

geraldwillkill

[QUOTE="Renegade_Fury"]

If it's not a science class, I'll type. If not, I either write a few notes, but chances are I'll just buy notes if the professor doesn't post any power points.

chrisrooR

Mathmatic/Symbol based courses (Ie Chem/Linear Algebra/calc) I would use a pen/paper

Useful written courses (Ie Biology) I would you my laptop

Useless written courses (Ie English) I surf the internet at the back of the room on my laptop.