Advice for the creative writer, yes. But the student? My manager is taking a summer class and his teacher told the class, “Don’t write down what I say. Write down what you feel about what I say.” Interesting advice for a note-taker who’s thinking about regurgitating the content for the next test.
My reporting background feeds [...]
…goes the old Yiddish proverb. And it works for the spring semester as well as for real life.
Using a simple 1-inch binder and two sets of five tabs were fantastic in helping me organize my two classes’ syllabi, assignments, special handouts, and so on. I could carry it with me to work and school, I [...]
Although UNC requires incoming freshmen to buy a laptop computer, and although some SILS classes require a laptop (I’m thinking here of the database or programming courses), by and large, I’ve found that I haven’t really needed a laptop on campus. I prefer taking notes by hand on paper, and the campus is lousy with [...]
Tagged macbookI’m starting my third official semester as a graduate student but there are still a few nuts I haven’t cracked yet. I’m starting to wonder if they’re worth cracking or if I’m just worrying too much.
What I’ve been doing
Note-taking strategy. For both reading and classroom lectures, I still have (I think) a shockingly [...]
Mary Ellen Bates raves about Carrot2 in her latest InfoTip newsletter. Carrot2 clusters search results, much as Clusty.com does. Carrot2 differs in that it’s using a Swiss meta search engine, etools.ch, as the basis for its initial group of search results, while Clusty uses US-based meta search engines.
Both the Carrot2 and Clusty home [...]