I also seem to remember teachers giving us notes too. I really wish more instructors would make their lecture notes available before class. It can save a treme

I also seem to remember teachers giving us notes too. I really wish more instructors would make their lecture notes available before class. It can save a tremendous amount of overhead to just write annotations and small additions to existing notes. Instead of mindlessly writing there is time to actually think. Some people are weirld cagey about this even though they already have their lecture notes for the semester sitting on their desk.