Notetaking just wastes time...
My organic chemistry class is really depressing. We were doing review today of some very basic concepts, valence electrons, atomic number, periodicity of the elements, lewis dot structures... All stuff everyone should already know.
But he starts of the lecture saying how the best students are the ones that take a huge amount of notes, like with giant fucking binder where they've written everything down and worked all the problems... Ugh.
Everyone in class copying exactly what he wrote on the slide. At one point he meant to write "lose" and instead wrote "loose"... and everyone around me wrote "loose" in their notes. They're not even hearing the words he's saying; they're just copying down verbatim what he writes. I promise you, the more accurate the notes the less the student actually understands. If you're keeping up with a class, the only notes you should be taking are things like "Review ionic bonds" or "VESPR (wtf?)". Then you go to google and type in the terms you need to check on. You'll find lectures from better professors and scads of explanations. Don't bother with notes, it just wastes paper. Nothing that you write down will be better than what's in the text or on the web.
But he starts of the lecture saying how the best students are the ones that take a huge amount of notes, like with giant fucking binder where they've written everything down and worked all the problems... Ugh.
Everyone in class copying exactly what he wrote on the slide. At one point he meant to write "lose" and instead wrote "loose"... and everyone around me wrote "loose" in their notes. They're not even hearing the words he's saying; they're just copying down verbatim what he writes. I promise you, the more accurate the notes the less the student actually understands. If you're keeping up with a class, the only notes you should be taking are things like "Review ionic bonds" or "VESPR (wtf?)". Then you go to google and type in the terms you need to check on. You'll find lectures from better professors and scads of explanations. Don't bother with notes, it just wastes paper. Nothing that you write down will be better than what's in the text or on the web.