<p>do many people in college use them? cause i know they are quite popular in high schools haha</p>
<p>I saw the thread title before I read the post and thought to myself..."wow, i haven't heard sparknotes mentioned much since high school." so yea, that answers that! For the most part, if you're not interested in the subject matter, you wouldn't be taking that class in the first place, so you wouldn't need sparknotes. if you are interested, then why use them?</p>
<p>come to think of it, there are exceptions... for core classes which you have to take but dont want to. i think i used sparknotes a few times my first semester for a classical lit class when i just didnt have time to do all the readings. </p>
<p>anyone remember cliff notes? those seem to have died out</p>
<p>there are some people who still use them in the core english lit classes, but I never have. My english teacher says they're evil.</p>
<p>Sometimes the plot summary on Wikipedia will be enough to get you through an intro to english class. Ahem.</p>
<p>They're basically non-existent in my life.</p>
<p>So.... No in general. College is not a time to slack off.</p>
<p>Haven't been tempted to use them yet. Didn't use them in high school either. </p>
<p>But I do see people using them for one of the core literature classes at my school. The reading load can get pretty heavy.</p>
<p>It's so funny that this thread is on here, I was just wondering if I could justify using sparknotes if the reading load gets too heavy for my mythology in lit class this semester. I'm hoping that I won't need it, but man...epics are long.</p>
<p>Some people use them as theyre reading books as a supplement to understanding the book...just to throw in a new perspective.</p>
<p>haven't touched them in college...</p>
<p>however, I also haven't taken an English class.</p>
<p>I use them for review when finals come. They are great tools for reviewing, but poor substitutes for actually doing the work. I have been reading some incredibly massive works at my college (think War and Peace, and Middlemarch) and it's simply too impractical to go back and review all of them in any detail way without Sparknotes.</p>
<p>I forgot they existed.</p>
<p>I haven't used sparknotes since high school, much of the reading that professors hand out is not in sparknotes. Out of the 8 books my English professor assigned, only one was in sparknotes.
If a book is in sparknotes the professors expect you to know much more that what is listed in sparknotes.</p>