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Even though I wrote plenty through elementary and high school, I was never able to write at a speed that allowed me to keep up with college professors, which wa
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
Even though I wrote plenty through elementary and high school, I was never able to write at a speed that allowed me to keep up with college professors, which was frustrating. If I could relive my college years I think I'd make sure to obtain a laptop of some sort because that would've made notetaking so much easier.
The difference in thinking between writing and typing that you noted is interesting. It didn't seem to exist for me, but that might've been confounded by struggling to keep up with the professor — I was too focused on trying to get things written down to actually put any thought into whatever was being said, making it difficult to apply any sort of grouping to the notes on the fly.
- nerdponx 4y agoI had this experience several times in math classes, but I ascribe it to the professor not telling us where the lesson was going in advance. It was impossible to know if a given example or proof was going to be a quick thing or a major operation that consumed the entire lecture. That uncertainty made it very difficult to structure my notes. I generally didn't have that problem in my economics classes, nor do I seem to have it in work meetings.