Notetaking is a skill vital to every student who plans to pursue post-secondary education. It is just not a skill you need to possess, but it is a skill you must be good at if you hope to be successful in college. A lot of lecturers upload their notes on their webpage in either PDF or PowerPoint format, and it is a good idea to have these notes printed off prior to going to class. Lecturers will often make additions to their notes during lecture and you can type these into the notes section at the bottom of your PowerPoint slide or manually add text over your PDF file as well. Just in case you forgot to print off the PowerPoint notes you can split up your notebook into the corresponding sections and just add what the lecturer is adding manually into his PowerPoint slides during class and then print off the notes after class and attach what you wrote down to the slides or write them in again to help you better remember them. Sometimes you will get a professor who is difficult to understand or someone who you may view as not being too helpful. Instead of complaining about it, you can use the internet to find useful videos that convey information pertinent to your class. There will be some topics you will be covering that may be too difficult to understand in lecture the first time around, so these videos will be very helpful because you can rewind and rewatch them as many times as you want until you grasp the topic. For me I used a lot of online videos to help me better comprehend topics I had learned in lecture. Khan Academy is a great website which I used a lot for my calculus courses. MIT also has a lot of great helpful videos that they post on their website from their lectures. Although some of the videos may be old, they are still incredibly helpful. I used their physics lecture videos fall semester when we hit special relativity in physics 1250 and it was very helpful and it helped me to get an A in the class.