To note or not to note?

[Gloamglozer]

Who takes notes scrupulously? Who is a listener and who is an in-betweener? Who is surfin' the net on their computer and paying no attention to their lecturer?

Seriously, what are your opinions on the usefulness of note-taking? Personally, I've never been a note-taker. It's partially because I can't be stuffed, but mainly because I think note-taking can be distracting and it's better to be fully attentive to the lecturer. I'm yet to go to uni so I'm not certain on my strategy for when it comes, but I think I'll take the listening approach - only taking a few important notes here and there.

Discuss.

Yeah I have never ever taken a single bit of note in the few maths lectures I've attended, heck I don't even turn up to any maths lectures. I think it really depends on the subject and person, for subjects like maths, there's no real need to take notes, but some people like to jot down important collaries etc

For subjects like maths at UoM, you're expected to buy the whole semester's worth of notes in a bound book from the bookshop so you don't need to take any notes.  The notes you need to take are the examples that you work through every lecture and maybe the odd annotation or two to enhance your notes.

[rustic_metal]

Who takes notes scrupulously? Who is a listener and who is an in-betweener? Who is surfin' the net on their computer and paying no attention to their lecturer?

Seriously, what are your opinions on the usefulness of note-taking? Personally, I've never been a note-taker. It's partially because I can't be stuffed, but mainly because I think note-taking can be distracting and it's better to be fully attentive to the lecturer. I'm yet to go to uni so I'm not certain on my strategy for when it comes, but I think I'll take the listening approach - only taking a few important notes here and there.

Discuss.

Yeah I have never ever taken a single bit of note in the few maths lectures I've attended, heck I don't even turn up to any maths lectures. I think it really depends on the subject and person, for subjects like maths, there's no real need to take notes, but some people like to jot down important collaries etc

For subjects like maths at UoM, you're expected to buy the whole semester's worth of notes in a bound book from the bookshop so you don't need to take any notes.  The only notes you need to take are probably the examples that you work through every lecture and maybe the odd annotation or two to enhance your notes.

Which maths did you do? Most maths subjects at Melbourne require more notes than any other subject, since the 'bound notes' are more like slide templates and you pretty much have to copy down every single lecture slide (2-3 dozen per lecture) at a ridiculous speed.

[Gloamglozer]

Who takes notes scrupulously? Who is a listener and who is an in-betweener? Who is surfin' the net on their computer and paying no attention to their lecturer?

Seriously, what are your opinions on the usefulness of note-taking? Personally, I've never been a note-taker. It's partially because I can't be stuffed, but mainly because I think note-taking can be distracting and it's better to be fully attentive to the lecturer. I'm yet to go to uni so I'm not certain on my strategy for when it comes, but I think I'll take the listening approach - only taking a few important notes here and there.

Discuss.

Yeah I have never ever taken a single bit of note in the few maths lectures I've attended, heck I don't even turn up to any maths lectures. I think it really depends on the subject and person, for subjects like maths, there's no real need to take notes, but some people like to jot down important collaries etc

For subjects like maths at UoM, you're expected to buy the whole semester's worth of notes in a bound book from the bookshop so you don't need to take any notes.  The only notes you need to take are probably the examples that you work through every lecture and maybe the odd annotation or two to enhance your notes.

Which maths did you do? Most maths subjects at Melbourne require more notes than any other subject, since the 'bound notes' are more like slide templates and you pretty much have to copy down every single lecture slide (2-3 dozen per lecture) at a ridiculous speed.

Calc 1, 2 and Linear Algebra so far.  Before I carry on, I should correct myself by editing my previous post.  For Calc 1 & 2, the only notes were really the examples you go through in the lecture unless if you had Christine Mangelsdorf as a lecturer.

[rustic_metal]

Ah, right. I've only done vector calc and eng maths, which were both just 3 hours of vce english exam style intense handwriting per week.

[TrueTears]

yeah the monash equivalent of vector calc and stuff at uom also has bound books with lots of notes, I never buy them or look them, rather i just search up the topics, read some ebooks and browse some wiki pages, makes the concepts stick in my head and do a few exercises just so i am confident to see how it all works then i'll hopefully remember it. No need to take notes

[rustic_metal]

I just get the pdf versions from mates and print everything out. People glare at me in lectures when they see my notes while they're furiously scribbling.

[Gloamglozer]

Ah, right. I've only done vector calc and eng maths, which were both just 3 hours of vce english exam style intense handwriting per week.

Oh crap.  I'm doing Vector Calc in semester 1 this year.  I guess I should start brushing up my English skills in preparation for one of my maths electives...   

I just get the pdf versions from mates and print everything out. People glare at me in lectures when they see my notes while they're furiously scribbling.

Pdf versions of textbooks.  I love them...  Only if I can get my hands on them. 

[rustic_metal]

Ah, right. I've only done vector calc and eng maths, which were both just 3 hours of vce english exam style intense handwriting per week.

Oh crap.  I'm doing Vector Calc in semester 1 this year.  I guess I should start brushing up my English skills in preparation for one of my maths electives...   

I just get the pdf versions from mates and print everything out. People glare at me in lectures when they see my notes while they're furiously scribbling.

Pdf versions of textbooks.  I love them...  Only if I can get my hands on them. 

Print out a copy of the eng maths formula sheet if you're doing vector calc. It basically reduces most of the course to plug and play formulae. I'd have done so much better if I'd known that (only got a P in vector calc, but got pretty much every vector calc question in eng maths right all semester using the formula sheet).

Oh and PM me if you want to know where you can access the full lecture notes outside class.

[Gloamglozer]

Ah, right. I've only done vector calc and eng maths, which were both just 3 hours of vce english exam style intense handwriting per week.

Oh crap.  I'm doing Vector Calc in semester 1 this year.  I guess I should start brushing up my English skills in preparation for one of my maths electives...   

I just get the pdf versions from mates and print everything out. People glare at me in lectures when they see my notes while they're furiously scribbling.

Pdf versions of textbooks.  I love them...  Only if I can get my hands on them. 

Print out a copy of the eng maths formula sheet if you're doing vector calc. It basically reduces most of the course to plug and play formulae. I'd have done so much better if I'd known that (only got a P in vector calc, but got pretty much every vector calc question in eng maths right all semester using the formula sheet).

Oh and PM me if you want to know where you can access the full lecture notes outside class.

But I'm not doing Eng Maths.  Damn.  So are they very closely related?

[rustic_metal]

Most of the vector calc course is taught as a module type thing in eng maths - generally the first 3 weeks or so of it (about 1/6 of the total material). I'm sure you can get the eng maths formula sheet from somebody who's doing it, but if you can't I guess I can send it to you.

I meant the vector calc lecture notes, btw, not the eng maths ones.

[Gloamglozer]

Most of the vector calc course is taught as a module type thing in eng maths - generally the first 3 weeks or so of it (about 1/6 of the total material). I'm sure you can get the eng maths formula sheet from somebody who's doing it, but if you can't I guess I can send it to you.

I meant the vector calc lecture notes, btw, not the eng maths ones.

In that case, I better start bugging some eng friends at the start of the semester. 

P.S.  PM sent.

[rustic_metal]

http://www.2shared.com/document/Q3dq96cV/formulaSheet.html

There's the eng maths formula sheet if you're after it.

[kamil9876]

Print out a copy of the eng maths formula sheet if you're doing vector calc. It basically reduces most of the course to plug and play formulae

Really? I didn't know it was even possible to get more "plug and play" than vector calc.

[rustic_metal]

The notes are all over the place, especially with the ds, ds~, dS and dS~ stuff. That part of the course needs a bit of tweaking.

[iffets12345]

Just wondering, for Monash, are all the lecture notes on blackboard beforehand? Cause obviously, in uni maths there wasn't really anything