Today, after following lectures in Political Science and Sociology for 18 months, I finally figured out the best way to take lecture notes in these courses, where the professors use lots of overhead/PowerPoint slides. Up until today, I have been busy frantically copying down the content of the slides, which has forced me to somewhat ignore what the professor’s saying. Or ignore… at least I can’t keep up.

In history classes, on the other hand, the lecturer rarely uses slides, but rather talks and talks and talks, without barely any visual tools at all. Thus, in history, I’ve concentrated on what the lecturer says, as I’m not being distracted by slides.

My new method in PS/S resembles the history method, but it also implements utilizing the slides as a structure for the note-taking. After all, in most classes the lecturer publishes the slides on the university’s intranet, and when I have this blog to post them on, I can merge the slides with my own notes, thus gaining a much higher level of knowledge reproduction.

Yay me! :D

And a large yayz0r for discoveries of the obvious! :D :D :D