NOTES...how do you take yours?

[jkblevins]

What is your preferred method of note taking? Do you use a laptop and type, the good ol fashion pencil and paper, or do you record and write later?

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

I'm a huge fan of outline format; have been since 6th grade history. My teacher made an outline of her lecture on the blackboard as she talked.

I also kept two notebooks: one for taking the notes in class, the other to organize the content into the perfect outline and make it legible. A bonus was that copying the notes helped me to retain the content

[johsonmichelle]

Oh wow, my school encourages note taking through pen and paper but we still need access to computers to do homework and class projects. If we need to use a computer to for a class task, our instructor will reserve a computer room for the whole class. You could just buy cheap laptop or if you have decent credit , best buy and apple have free financing for their computers. I know books can be expensive which is why I'm renting some of my books, they cost me about $20 a semester.

Well its about $20 per book for one semester, I rent from chegg.com ( amazon is also good for renting) and it has been a good experince so far. I had to shell out much more money for my fundamentals and medical surgical textbook because I needed the code that was attached to the books.