I have to actually put in effort????

So the lesson this week had an opening sentence of, ” college courses demand that students take an active role in their learning.” If that isn’t the most painfully true statement I’ve heard all week, then I don’t know what is. Remember back in high school when you would get guided notes and have to fill in a few sentences per line, yeah well those days are long and gone. I think one of the major aspects of high school privilege that I miss is the low maintenance note taking. Now in college, you sit in the lecture, you’ll have modules or lessons loaded online, and it is up to you to figure out what gets written down and what doesn’t. I think one of the biggest mistakes I, and my peers, have made is thinking that you don’t have to write it down because you’ll just remember it…. try again. Always and I mean always write something down. By second semester I was averaging about 2.5-3 pages of notes per lecture, and I had also figured out that I can’t type my notes. I need to physically write them out ( shout out to notability and our freshman Ipads ). I think this week’s module was very valuable in the fact that I think figuring out your note taking style is a step in our academic careers that most people overlook. We were taught one way to take notes and that’s what most of us stuck with. Leading some people to think they are bad note takers when really just the approach that they were taught wasn’t right for them, and that’s okay. We all succeed differently.

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