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Because it's very much an edge case and he hasn't passed yet. A lot of people get to the end of their course and realise they have thousands of pages of useless
by setquk 8y ago
Because it's very much an edge case and he hasn't passed yet. A lot of people get to the end of their course and realise they have thousands of pages of useless words and diagrams and have a nervous breakdown.
It takes a lot of discipline and time to write very high quality notes and to study. I spent more time thinking about things and experimenting with ideas and writing notes than I did in lectures or tutorials or labs.
- gjulianm 8y agoI did take LaTeX notes for most courses on my math degree, and I passed all of them. In fact, the ones where I dedicated more time to the notes were the ones that I could study more easily as I put in more effort to understand and review what I wrote.
- sannee 8y ago> Because it's very much an edge case and he hasn't passed yet. I am fairly sure he passed more than one course with this approach. The blogpost says that he started using LaTeX to take notes during his second semester. The screenshots show introductory complex analysis, which is usually taught somewhat later.
- jjuel 8y agoDon't you think you could be an edge case too where you went back and studied extra and experimented? Very few college students I know actually did anything like this, and I know I didn't. Obviously it would have helped, but I did not do that then.
- setquk 8y agoNo because we formed study groups and did it collectively.