<p>When do you feel that letting someone have a copy of your notes is warented? I went to a very competitive private high school where no one shared notes, but have been asked for notes several times in college. I generally say no unless it's for reasons that you'd normally miss a class for like sickness, the funeral of a close relitive or car issues. Is this too harsh?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I don't see what the big deal is. Just share your notes.. it's not like they're going to eat them. :p</p>
<p>Share for the reasons you stated, or when there is a collarborative and mutually beneficial situation going on (studying together, comparing notes because a teacher talks too fast for you to get everything down, etc). </p>
<p>Don't share if someone is using you so they can sleep through class.</p>
<p>Well duh...if your friend is sleeping in class don't give them the notes....but if they're sick, obviously help them out.</p>
<p>My hs chem teacher taught herself shorthand in college. She'd get every single word the prof said, and then she'd write them up and sell the notes-she made a fortune. Just a thought. :)</p>
<p>I don't see anything wrong with sharing notes...</p>
<p>Sharing notes isn't cheating, but (in some situations) it can be allowing yourself to be taken advantage of.</p>
<p>Sharing notes occaisonally is harmless. If you are repeatedly asked by one person for your notes, you are being taken advantage of. Sharing notes is also helpful incase YOU miss class... more likely to find someone to share with you.</p>
<p>It depends on the class... I had a Eastern Civ class last semester and I'm sitll convince the professor never stopped to take a breath. After class a couple of would always get together and exchange notes. Generally the only way I won't share is if the person next to me is sleeping, and is always asking me! If they were to doze once I'd help them out. Remember, what goes around comes around!</p>
<p>I have no problem with sharing notes. Most times, the lecture notes from the prof are online anyway and class notes are just supplemental.</p>
<p>If the person sleeps through class, don't share.</p>
<p>If you know they are making a real effort in the class, and they miss one for some reason, let them see your notes.</p>
<p>if the person is cool then i have no problem sharing</p>
<p>its good if you can establish a bond like that with someone. like if you they miss something they fill you in and if you miss something they fill you in. you scratch my back i scratch yours.</p>
<p>if you share/don't share it tells me a lot about you... actually all i need to know</p>
<p>This girl who sleeps through chem is always asking for my notes... then she brags that she can't stay awake because she knows it all already... then why does she need my notes? Regardless I won't give them to her. I have given them to other people who've missed class for various reasons but if I have to stay awake, you should have to as well.</p>
<p>Does it make anyone else uncomfortable when you're taking notes and someone next to you isn't? Like, they're not sleeping, but they're kind of giving the impression that they don't need to take notes? This really gets on my nerves.</p>
<p>It makes me uncomfortable when the person next to me is taking frantic notes when I haven't noticed anything worth taking notes on. That happens a lot here- it is Wellesley after all :-P. </p>
<p>It never really bothers me to be taking notes when other people aren't- some people have minds like sponges and absorb things from hearing them. I usually need notes to keep a lecture in my head. Depending on the person and how much I liked them, though, I probably wouldn't give a non-notetaker my notes unless she had missed a class.</p>
<p>I don't always take notes, and it's not because I think I know everything. </p>
<p>I don't learn very well from things I hear, and I find taking notes exhausting, so I do most of my learning from textbooks, or from talking to teachers in their offices. I only take notes in class when the teacher is covering something not in the textbook, or that I have some other reason to want a written record of.</p>
<p>Whether or not my classmates hand in their problem sets or take notes or participate in class discussion doesn't bother me. It's their choice.</p>
<p>It just nags at me because then I tend to feel stupid. It's not really the fault of the person who is not taking notes.</p>
<p>Well, if it's not a nuisance to you, what's the problem? If it becomes a nuisance, just say, "my notes aren't that good, sorry."</p>
<p>i very rarely took notes in class. i learn by listening and by doing.. not by writing.. and i found that while writing down what was being said then i was focusing more on getting it down than actually understanding what was being said, so by senior year i just kind of stopped taking notes.. and it worked out great.. but if there ever was anything that i needed notes for, my friends always loaned them to me - just because they know that's not how i learn. also, if i knew a friend wasn't going to be in class a day i'd jot some little notes down to give to him/her so they wouldn't be completely clueless as to what was missed.</p>
<p>"It just nags at me because then I tend to feel stupid. It's not really the fault of the person who is not taking notes."</p>
<p>By them not taking notes ... it is their fault.</p>