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Hey there! Today we’re going to talk about listening and I hope you’re listening! Listening may seem like an easy task that you mastered long ago, but as you’ll learn in the years to come, college has a lot of distractions.

So here a few tips for listening and taking notes in a college lecture:

1. Keep it organized. Some people may find it nerdy, but it comes in hand to have your school stuff organized. Title and date your notes. Keep it in order by classes, subject, semester, and information surrounding midterms. I like to use binders and dividers to keep all of my notes and lecture hands out together.

2. Outlines! If your instructor is a good instructor, they will give you some sort of outline. This may be a online and you can take your notes within them, or they are in a printable version that has the powerpoint and room to take notes. If this isn’t provided, the professor will generally give you a few cues as to what you’re going to learn in that lecture and what’s important.

3. Listen for “This is really important” or “This will be on the midterm” and highlight that section in the notes. Professors make these exams, so I’d listen to what they say is going to be on it.

4. Review your notes later in the day, maybe after a nap. Studies show that you can often remember things better after a nap. If you review your notes that day, you can reiterate the important things and maybe add in somethings you didn’t get a chance to write down. You retain more than you think!

In this video, Hank Green very quickly explains the four stages of sleep, theories on why we dream, info processing, physiological function, cognitive development, and neural activity models. In NREM-1, your brain transitions from normal alpha waves to crazy waves and in this stage, you can feel hypnagonic sensations. In NREM-2, you have deeper, sleep spindles in which you are definitely asleep, but you can still be woken up pretty easily. In NREM-3, you have slow delta waves. You can actually have small, fragmented dreams in these first three stages of dreaming, but it isn’t until REM sleep that the vivid dreams happen. This cycle lasts for about 90 minutes and goes through the four different stages repeatedly.

This video makes it really to easy to learn about sleep. They put the main ideas in a text format instead of showing Hank explain it which is especially helpful for spelling hard words. The video also puts everything into main ideas and shows the transitions very clearly. Not only do they use visual effects and cartoons to explain, but to keep it interesting. Finally, the video sums up the topic to ensure you learned the main ideas.

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