Maybe their instructor is a technophobe who banned laptops in class? Granted that’s more likely to occur among stuffy British English proffesors than physics(?) profs with stuffy British TAs, but it does happen!
All of my teachers banned electronics in class.
All of them.
Seriously, my oceanography dropped a kid because his cell phone rang three different days.
kibecrou
Then all of your teachers are Luddite idiots who don’t understand the value of recording a class so you can listen again to clarify something.
TheRealAllPurposeGuru
Amen.
Hunter
Considering that none of my partner’s fellow students can seem to get through an hour-long class without texting or checking their phones at least thirty times, I understand this attitude. I don’t completely agree with it, but I get it.
Icalasari
Are you sure it wasn’t because his phone rang in class, with the fact that a phone usually doesn’t assist in a classroom?
So far I have been in one chem. class, two math classes and a marketing class that the professor did not allow laptops to take notes with. Considering I haven’t been in college very long I would judge that many professors do not allow laptops in college. Although my current college does tend to attract crazies for professors…
irisheagle
Should go to comunity college like me. I swear sometimes i think the schools motto is “We just don’t give a ****”
No0ne
Most of these occurrences WERE at community college…
Richie9999
Where are you going to school? At Miami University students are encouraged to have laptops and most teachers are fine with you having them in class.
I’ve never had a teacher that banned laptops from class, and it actually makes it easier for me (except in math, I agree with that one). I write slowly but I type 40 WPM, so if I write notes I don’t get everything, however if I type them I get a lot more info down. I don’t see many other students use them, though, and I don’t play games or surf the net in class.
News flash for you – kids that take notes on laptops in the upper level science classes I TA do *much* worse than the ones that handwrite notes. Unless you have a “Bamboo” or some input device you can do sketches with, these pitiful little outlines that most nursing majors think will help them pass fall well short of notes they should actually be taking.
Please believe me here. If you absolutely must take “notes” on your laptop, please, please PLEASE get a sketch input device. Don’t kid yourself into believing something in word with some MS paint sketches will cut it – it won’t. If you can’t spring for the $150 for a Bamboo, you need to use a composition notebook. PLEASE!
Source: I’ve been in college almost as long as most students have been alive, and I have almost a 4.0. In a STEM field.
Nobody used laptops when I was in college. But then, professors never collected notes, either. You’d have a hard time picking up all of those granite slabs we chiseled our notes into.
I had to capture and tame a woolly mammoth to help carry mine.
MOST of my classes actively discourage laptop use. Supposedly there have been “studies” recently showing that students using laptops, even if they only use them to take notes, negatively effects their ability to retain information from lecture. I put “studies” in quotes because I’ve never read these papers and have only heard them verbally cited at me/been shown select figures from them by various professors (many of them psych or language profs), so I cant personally verify their validity. But I can say that I went to the type of school where everybody had a laptop, but still saw relatively few of them in class ( I just graduated)
A few of my classes have stuck the laptop users in one of the side-rows. I’m actually glad for this, because it’s really distracting if someone’s dicking around on the internet, especially in a multi-leveled auditorium hall. You can see everything a person any number of rows below you has on their screen, and you can’t look away, because you’d be looking away from the proff, as well.
When I got my engineering degree a “computer” involved several large boxes and 2-3 power cords. Laptops hadn’t even been *invented* yet (the first one came along my last year in college.)
When I went back to school I was one of two that had laptops. Now what I see is about 50% of the class.
And no, it’s not a gimmick. I can either write and be able to read about half of it, or type 120 words per minute on a keyboard. You do the math. Nowdays I use an iPad and a keyboard. Very light, and at least some of my books are on there too.
There is NO WAY I would give up my notes. Mark me absent. You don’t NEED to know how much I don’t pay attention to your lecture. I keep my notes, I use them to LEARN. Piss off.
How the hell are you supposed to do the homework without your notes? Idiots.
Gah, I LOATHE it when my teachers do this. Why the fuck should I bother taking notes if you’re just going to take them? Might as well just… well, write what Mike did.
Jason’s probably one of the character who I’m most like (I’m kind of boring and uptight). And I may end up being a TA (yeay for grad school beginning in January!).
Wait, did Walky sign his sister’s name to his notes to avoid getting in trouble, or did Sal also feel the need to draw Jason getting eaten alive by some horrible monster? I…either one would make me feel happy. Especially if it somehow ended in Sal and Jason in liplock mode.
No, Sal’s paper is in front of Walky’s, it’s the half-bent one that has “blah blah blah” on it. We can’t see Walky’s signature, but we knew what he had on his “notes” anyhow.
My favorite geology professor had a running gag when he reminded everyone to put their names on their test he would always add “or put the name of someone you don’t like.” I still laughed every time even after two semesters with him… maybe I’m just a dork but I thought it was really funny…
I wasn’t aware people could even use laptops in Math class. Formatting one equation to look nice would take at least ten times as long as writing it down.
As much as I loathe Macs, aparently they have a program designed especially for this. Saw someone using it in a math class a couple quarters ago. She took the notes then played games, so it was pretty quick.
I don’t know a lot of people who take notes via laptop. I find hand-writing to be easier to format, cross-reference, doodle relevant pictures. With a laptop, you can…type things out. Or check your email, facebook, MLIA, twitter, etc., but some of us pay hundreds of our own dollars for this class, we’re going to pay attention. Pretty much the only thing I do slacking-off-wise in class is doodle…and in history classes I can doodle relevant images, which is why I guess I’m a history major.
204 thoughts on “Notes”
David Herbert
Ah, he’s still the same old Mike. And yay, Jason.
Jen Aside
JASON WOO
I love me some Brit =D
MrGBH
Everybody loves the Brits. I don’t know why, we’ve invaded most of the world.
Lokitsu
Its the accent.
Pagannerd
Some people get off on being invaded. Like your Mom.
CanvasWolfDoll
for a shilling?
Mkvenner
Three things Criket, Football, and tea.
RandomPerson12
Make that four things: you forgot Doctor Who
Twigs
We JUST DO. Face it, you guys are hot.
BrokenEye, True False Prophet
Why do you think the rest of the world let you get away with invading them?
Kyle Lees
Wait, how would that work in a classroom environment where a good amount of students are using laptops?
MAGIC, OKAY? MAGIC.
Kiwii
Maybe their instructor is a technophobe who banned laptops in class? Granted that’s more likely to occur among stuffy British English proffesors than physics(?) profs with stuffy British TAs, but it does happen!
landbasered
All of my teachers banned electronics in class.
All of them.
Seriously, my oceanography dropped a kid because his cell phone rang three different days.
kibecrou
Then all of your teachers are Luddite idiots who don’t understand the value of recording a class so you can listen again to clarify something.
TheRealAllPurposeGuru
Amen.
Hunter
Considering that none of my partner’s fellow students can seem to get through an hour-long class without texting or checking their phones at least thirty times, I understand this attitude. I don’t completely agree with it, but I get it.
Icalasari
Are you sure it wasn’t because his phone rang in class, with the fact that a phone usually doesn’t assist in a classroom?
No0ne
So far I have been in one chem. class, two math classes and a marketing class that the professor did not allow laptops to take notes with. Considering I haven’t been in college very long I would judge that many professors do not allow laptops in college. Although my current college does tend to attract crazies for professors…
irisheagle
Should go to comunity college like me. I swear sometimes i think the schools motto is “We just don’t give a ****”
No0ne
Most of these occurrences WERE at community college…
Richie9999
Where are you going to school? At Miami University students are encouraged to have laptops and most teachers are fine with you having them in class.
ViviWannabe
I’ve never had a teacher that banned laptops from class, and it actually makes it easier for me (except in math, I agree with that one). I write slowly but I type 40 WPM, so if I write notes I don’t get everything, however if I type them I get a lot more info down. I don’t see many other students use them, though, and I don’t play games or surf the net in class.
Newt
News flash for you – kids that take notes on laptops in the upper level science classes I TA do *much* worse than the ones that handwrite notes. Unless you have a “Bamboo” or some input device you can do sketches with, these pitiful little outlines that most nursing majors think will help them pass fall well short of notes they should actually be taking.
Please believe me here. If you absolutely must take “notes” on your laptop, please, please PLEASE get a sketch input device. Don’t kid yourself into believing something in word with some MS paint sketches will cut it – it won’t. If you can’t spring for the $150 for a Bamboo, you need to use a composition notebook. PLEASE!
Source: I’ve been in college almost as long as most students have been alive, and I have almost a 4.0. In a STEM field.
Manholio
I think you mean stuffy English “professors.”
Sorry. Too wonderful to pass up. Stay in school.
Jandaru
What do you call a “good amount?” One or two? Because that’s about how many laptops I see students using in my uni classes.
Animal
Nobody used laptops when I was in college. But then, professors never collected notes, either. You’d have a hard time picking up all of those granite slabs we chiseled our notes into.
I had to capture and tame a woolly mammoth to help carry mine.
TheRealAllPurposeGuru
You were the guy with the mammoth. I was always envious.
JacquieH
It’s a math class. I never figured out how to take notes on my laptop for a math class.
Pie
LaTeX would work, although I think taking notes by hand would still be much faster and expedient.
Jabbie
MOST of my classes actively discourage laptop use. Supposedly there have been “studies” recently showing that students using laptops, even if they only use them to take notes, negatively effects their ability to retain information from lecture. I put “studies” in quotes because I’ve never read these papers and have only heard them verbally cited at me/been shown select figures from them by various professors (many of them psych or language profs), so I cant personally verify their validity. But I can say that I went to the type of school where everybody had a laptop, but still saw relatively few of them in class ( I just graduated)
Toaster
A few of my classes have stuck the laptop users in one of the side-rows. I’m actually glad for this, because it’s really distracting if someone’s dicking around on the internet, especially in a multi-leveled auditorium hall. You can see everything a person any number of rows below you has on their screen, and you can’t look away, because you’d be looking away from the proff, as well.
No0ne
And sometimes… sometimes you see things no man was ever meant to see…
TheRealAllPurposeGuru
When I got my engineering degree a “computer” involved several large boxes and 2-3 power cords. Laptops hadn’t even been *invented* yet (the first one came along my last year in college.)
When I went back to school I was one of two that had laptops. Now what I see is about 50% of the class.
And no, it’s not a gimmick. I can either write and be able to read about half of it, or type 120 words per minute on a keyboard. You do the math. Nowdays I use an iPad and a keyboard. Very light, and at least some of my books are on there too.
JediAutobot
JASON! And Sal’s, Walky’s and Mike’s notes are hilarious
Qaxis
But how can they learn without the notes! At least the Jason learned something there. Specifically, that his mom is not naturally a prostitute.
TheRealAllPurposeGuru
There is NO WAY I would give up my notes. Mark me absent. You don’t NEED to know how much I don’t pay attention to your lecture. I keep my notes, I use them to LEARN. Piss off.
How the hell are you supposed to do the homework without your notes? Idiots.
Zap
Gah, I LOATHE it when my teachers do this. Why the fuck should I bother taking notes if you’re just going to take them? Might as well just… well, write what Mike did.
TheRealAllPurposeGuru
Exactly. I don’t give my notes to ANYONE.
AaronS
JASON FINALLY! I feel like I might be the only person who was waiting for his arrival excitedly. Now it has finally come. 😀
And lol… At least Walky’s a good enough artist?
Cassidy
Jason is my favorite after joe. OHMIGAWDITSJASON YAYAYAYAYAYAYA
R
Jason’s probably one of the character who I’m most like (I’m kind of boring and uptight). And I may end up being a TA (yeay for grad school beginning in January!).
R
I seem to be perma-Joyce, not that it’s a bad thing.
MrGBH
I’m stuffy, uptight, tea-obsessed and British.
ses
As I love Jason with all of my body, I can safely say that I was probably anticipating his arrival as much as you. Or more.
Joebo
…all of your body? Eww.
Björn
You were not alone! JASON YAAAY! I’m so happy!
And BTW, he’s voiced by Simon Callow. Because I say so. 🙂
Heather
I’ve been waiting for both him and Leslie.
Am I the only one who finds it odd they’ve all signed it last name first?
Hoop
It’s so the TA can organize them and hand them back out more readily.
Richie9999
Yeah, but the TA didn’t specifically mention that they needed to and even so, I would expect Mike not to just because he’s Mike.
Tercotta
Could it not have been mentioned earlier?
(Not going to lie, posting to see who is my current avatar)
Magnus369
could it be habit from having to fill out papers in a similar fashion for the past 8-10 years?
Ragnal
Something looks different about Jason’s hair. Or is it me?
Cassidy
Its dome-ier. It used to have round corners
agentksilver
Wait, did Walky sign his sister’s name to his notes to avoid getting in trouble, or did Sal also feel the need to draw Jason getting eaten alive by some horrible monster? I…either one would make me feel happy. Especially if it somehow ended in Sal and Jason in liplock mode.
JayStrang
He’s flipping past Sal’s, which simply reads “Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah”, and looking at Walky’s underneath it.
Cassidy
It’s 2 different pages
Undrave
I’m pretty sure the note that sal gave are the ones that go ‘Blah blah blah’ while Walky’s notes are beneath it.
Alix
No, Sal’s paper is in front of Walky’s, it’s the half-bent one that has “blah blah blah” on it. We can’t see Walky’s signature, but we knew what he had on his “notes” anyhow.
No0ne
My favorite geology professor had a running gag when he reminded everyone to put their names on their test he would always add “or put the name of someone you don’t like.” I still laughed every time even after two semesters with him… maybe I’m just a dork but I thought it was really funny…
dchorror
You know, that’d be really tempting in some of my science classes.
JayStrang
I guess the 90% of students using laptops get an automatic 0 for attendance.
Cratacon
I wasn’t aware people could even use laptops in Math class. Formatting one equation to look nice would take at least ten times as long as writing it down.
JayStrang
I suppose that’s a point.
I dunno, I’m just used to walking into class and seeing a sea of laptops and barely a pen in sight.
Vyse of Arcadia
I have a friend who takes amazing math notes on his laptop. He types up everything in TeX and then compiles it later.
R
Without laptops how can students check facebook during math class?
Joebo
As much as I loathe Macs, aparently they have a program designed especially for this. Saw someone using it in a math class a couple quarters ago. She took the notes then played games, so it was pretty quick.
Rowen Morland
Or you could have 15 minutes to email a copy of your notes to the TA.
agentksilver
I don’t know a lot of people who take notes via laptop. I find hand-writing to be easier to format, cross-reference, doodle relevant pictures. With a laptop, you can…type things out. Or check your email, facebook, MLIA, twitter, etc., but some of us pay hundreds of our own dollars for this class, we’re going to pay attention. Pretty much the only thing I do slacking-off-wise in class is doodle…and in history classes I can doodle relevant images, which is why I guess I’m a history major.
agentksilver
Doodle is an inherently funny word. I shouldn’t say it so much.
Kernanator
Doodledoodledoodle.
R
A tablet PC would allow you to add hand-written elements to your notes.
agentksilver
But why would you do it that way if, for the same amount of money, you could buy a paper notebook, a pencil, and pay half a month’s rent?