Yup - I liked taking notes using my laptop because I could copy down what the professor was saying verbatim. This gave me two advantages; (1) I could focus on

Yup - I liked taking notes using my laptop because I could copy down what the professor was saying verbatim. This gave me two advantages; (1) I could focus on the lecture itself and not how to best summarize the lecture, and (2) I could review the notes later as a higher quality product than what I would have invented. This strategy didn't work for things like math classes which were hard to take computer notes on.