<p>What was your method at CC? Written? Typed? Will you change it once you're at UCLA?</p>
<p>I was thinking of using the Cornell Notes template in this Mac application called Notebook 3.0.</p>
<p>UCLA has had workshops on study skills and note taking, maybe I'll attend one of those. I hear the professors go really fast, I want to make sure I'm prepared.</p>
<p>What is the Cornell Notes template? I’m not sure what I’ll do just yet but I am looking forward to reading the comments!</p>
<p>My friends gather their notes together to make the ultimate study guide. Since they had to take Psych 100A&B, it was crucial that their notes be in top shape. After a week of material, they would get a study room and exchange, add, and make a final copy for everyone (they were 4 altogether). </p>
<p>During their first week of classes (in TSP) they tested out both written and using a laptop/netbook. They ended up finding no significant difference within them, but they do write very fast (faster than most people not having to look down, paraphasing/abr. when appropriate -things you learn in a note taking class- not cornell notes though.) and thus two of them continued to write and whenever they didn’t feel like it, they would take their MacBook. They did tell me about a special program, I also think it was a little like OneNote. </p>
<p>In their Psychology classes last year, they found that sometimes when the professor had catching up to do, they would rush through the material, and when that was coming, they brought their laptops just because they can add a note to make sure to add more notes in there, etc.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking most of their notes from last summer to study from, haha! </p>
<p>Hope to see more helpful comments!</p>
<p>^ Thanks RheeL3, that’s very useful advice, because I’m gonna shop for a netbook for classes in the Fall and I wanted to make sure it’d be useful. I write medium-speed, so a netbook would help me I think. Especially if professors move at a faster speed than in CCs, I’d have to type just to keep up. OneNote with the Cornell helps a bit then? I have OneNote 2007 (bought in 08 lmao) but I haven’t ever used it. </p>
<p>Update: Actually @@ It’s a demo-version, I guess it wasn’t in the Professional version I got from SBCC. Wacky</p>
<p>Itachirumon- I have a netbook and it is Not particularly helpful for taking notes in class… The keyboard is a lot smaller so I find I can’t type as fast… & sometimes when you are typing so fast on the netbook you’ll accidentally hit keys & other screens will pop up… Maybe it is just be but I think a min 13 inch comp would be better to take notes with…</p>
<p>I’d love to take a laptop with me to class but all my classes are usually all math and science so it’s a no go for me. Sucks but on the plus side, no facebooking/distractions for me. Hahaha. I’m all paper now.</p>
<p>All four of them have MacBooks although I have a netbook and when I took notes with it, it was fine. I type over 100 wpm so maybe that contributes to it, get comfortable with any computer/laptop you get, it will truly make a difference. I only took my netbook once to class at CC, but I found that it wasn’t needed and I simply wrote the notes out for the rest of the semester. Now my dad kinda uses it instead of me, I just want my new MacBook! ^-^</p>
<p>Yeah I got Professional Version from a family friend.</p>
<p>Lee you are a machine! What is your major?</p>
<p>I took a keyboarding class as an elective back in high school! I won Typist of the Year! ^-^! Oh shiettt…now everyone will know who I am, lol!!! </p>
<p>I’m a Psychobiology major.</p>
<p>^Oooh Psychobiology, I’m aiming for Neuropsych or LGBT Studies… or both</p>
<p>haha I’ll hear you typing away… are you taking Psych 100A in the Fall?</p>
<p>100 wpm is pretty beasty. With that speed, you don’t even need a special method!</p>
<p>Yep yep! I wasn’t planning to, but my friend that will be attending TSP with me (whom I’ve been chatting with a lot these past few weeks! I really hope we end up being roomates for the school year because it would be great!) is going to take it (she’s a Psychology major) so I guess we can share and perfect our notes together! Especially since my friends gave me their binder of printed out notes! I’m ready!</p>
<p>I’m at 109 now… ;P</p>
<p>ok share! I’ll be in TSP & Psych 100A in the Fall… 109 should be illegal… I’ve never heard of typing that fast…</p>
<p>Are you serious?! I know people who can type faster than I do. I love my keyboards, keke. Even texting…hahaha! </p>
<p>Yeah…people stare at me when I’m busy typing…=/</p>
<p>Boo! Too bad you won’t be living on campus! We totally could have made the ultimate study group, haha! She also told me she’s getting a parking permit so no walking for meeeee!</p>
<p>I think my best is 84 wpm, I think I can manage 90 if I’m “in the zone” but average is probably closer to 75-80.</p>
<p>I’m prob 70 wpm but I haven’t checked for years so could be more or less…</p>
<p>It’ll probably suffer when I get my netbook since you’re right the keybord is smaller… but if I can adjust I should be able to zoom through.</p>
<p>That’s crazy! I think I should be thankful to my high school teacher then because that class really did help me! </p>
<p>Anyways~ heading off to watch some music shows, yay! Ttys everyone!</p>
<p>I never brought my Macbook to school at my JC, but I would love to at UCLA. Is that common for students to pull out their computers and use it for notes?</p>