> take legible notes by hand on everything that goes on the chalkboard This is very person-specific. For me, if I'm writing then I'm not actively listening. M

> take legible notes by hand on everything that goes on the chalkboard This is very person-specific. For me, if I'm writing then I'm not actively listening. My brain can only do one or the other well. When I take notes, I'm not processing anything very well and I learn very little. Instead, I generally only ever took notes on high level things, or on very specific details that mattered. I also discovered that a surprising number of my professors were literally writing on the whiteboard the exact, word-for-word text that was in the textbook.