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In statistics today, I was studiously taking notes and doing my homework at the same time, and the girl next to me was highlighting her calendar. Not just yellow for important dates, but pink for the calendar's outline, green for the days of the week, and so on. Periodically she hears the professor say something important and frantically writes her notes with neat underlining, stars for emphasis, and perfectly drawn graphs (if they're not perfect, she erases them and starts over). Every few minutes she asks me how we came to a certain conclusion, or where a number in the graph has come from, and I whisper the answer to her, while everyone stares at me for daring to talk (our professor has made it clear she finds that very rude). End of class, the professor gives a quiz (which I had informed the girl next to me of, when she arrived 22 minutes late). Girl next to me doesn't know what "K" is. K = the number of groups we are comparing for clinical significance. This is a term we learned last week and used a couple times every day in practicing the significance test. If she'd been taking proper notes at any time last week, she'd find K all over the damn place.
Long story short, her notes are perfectly written and absolutely flawed; mine are messy and I freaking aced that quiz.
Just to drag this on and on, she had multi-colored highlighters; neat notes with underlines, asterisks, and more highlighting; multi-colored tabs for each chapter in our textbook; and she couldn't figure out the F distribution table in the back of the book, which is CLEARLY LABELLED FOR OUR VIEWING PLEASURE. It's in the APPENDICES, for Pete's sake. It's a TOOL for us to use, not a difficult concept to grasp.
Long story short, her notes are perfectly written and absolutely flawed; mine are messy and I freaking aced that quiz.
Just to drag this on and on, she had multi-colored highlighters; neat notes with underlines, asterisks, and more highlighting; multi-colored tabs for each chapter in our textbook; and she couldn't figure out the F distribution table in the back of the book, which is CLEARLY LABELLED FOR OUR VIEWING PLEASURE. It's in the APPENDICES, for Pete's sake. It's a TOOL for us to use, not a difficult concept to grasp.