<p>I don't know if my brain is just overloaded, but I can swear that I remember just about nothing from my previous classes. I'm a bit concerned that for job interviews coming up I'll be asked a technical question and have no idea how to solve it off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Yep–it happens in my math and science classes. It’s why I use my voice recorder in those classes so I can review what was said in lecture later on. I’ve never been a good audio learner anyway (except when it comes to music-related courses, but that’s just nonacademic stuff in my case). My professors at community college never minded, but I don’t know about professors at the school I’m transferring to.</p>
<p>In my experience vigorously taking notes tends to reinforce material. There’s potentially lots of information to absorb in a single lecture – that’s why studying is so important. Always review information at least twice within a week of coming across it the first time.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know what you mean. Especially if my professor goes on and on and I am just scribbling notes down, it can get a little overwhelming. What I do then is rewrite all of my notes and try and understand ALL of it; don’t go past any you don’t understand. If you don’t get a part of the notes, then contact your professor, friend, or TA. I then highlight it and re-read it over and over again. I repeat this and it helps keep the info in my memory.</p>
<p>No, I actually remember almost everything now. The only time I ever take notes in any of my classes is for important dates or significant information that is crucial to remember. </p>
<p>I used to take notes, but then I discovered how I could remember things a lot easier. I discovered that if I put information into a model in my brain then I could remember it a lot easier. I’m also a visual learner so while the teacher was talking, I’d visually picture what he’s saying (or I’d look at the board if he drew a picture/graph/table). </p>
<p>To make an analogy of what I meant about the model in my brain, imagine if you were in a philosophy class and you had to remember the difference between objective morality, relative morality, and nihilism. I’d picture a square in my brain. Now the objective moral square would have one half of it be black, and the other half be white. The moral relative square would be mixtures of gray, and the nihilist square would cease to exist. </p>
<p>This is one of the things I do to memorize things much more, I make things into metaphorical pictures that are simple and easy to remember.</p>
<p>I think thought hard about it and did a lot of introspection while you study, you might be able to discover how exactly do you learn, and how do you memorize things? That’s what I did, and like I said now I don’t even have to take notes.</p>
<p>EDIT: Just for some random info, I remember reading an article in a psychology journal that showed that there’s evidence that using your imagination exercises your brain more than just listening to a lecture then studying the conventional way. That’s another reason in my opinion it may be helpful to combine your academics with some creative imagination.</p>