Things I have learnt today

[triskellian]

• Taking lecture notes on my eeeeee is better than taking pen-and-paper notes because:
  • My hand doesn't hurt afterwards
  • I take more notes
  • The notes I take are better
  • I'm more inclined to go through them and clean them up afterwards, because:
    • It is possible to clean them up without having to completely rewrite them
  • Cleaning them up means I reread them

Comments

[al_fruitbat]

Plato, they say, could stick it away. Half a crate of whisky every day...

[triskellian]

I'm afraid I will forever associate that song with you :-)

(Also, I actually wasn't earwormed with it until you posted that. Now I'm going between Mill and Descartes over and over again, damn you ;-)

[al_fruitbat]

There are vastly worse things to be associated with.

And I'm surprised you're not earworming "Aristotle, Aristotle" ;-)

[triskellian]

"Aristotle, Aristotle" is between Mill and Descartes. Mill, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[dyddgu]

I get that earworm every time I shelve our Mill section...

[triskellian]

Does it work for the others too, or is Mill just particularly earwormy?

[dyddgu]

I think the Mill is specially earwormy, I have no idea why, though. Occasionally Descartes, but mainly Mill.

[white_hart]

Descartes is the one who triggers the earworm for me most often, I think. Or Kant.

[pepper_field]

An alternative to the earworm:

John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy'.
- EC Bentley

[triskellian]

But, but, it doesn't fit the rhyme scheme! (It's rather good, though :-)

[bluedevi]

Clerihews FTW.

[pepper_field]

The one about Sir Humphry Davy has been occasionally useful in quizzes.

Well, okay, useful once. But still.

[bateleur]

Taking lecture notes on my eeeeee is better than taking pen-and-paper notes because

Bleeee! Massive cognitive dissonance! Tech and lectures in the same place? No, no, no. That would be like Choppers and mobile phones. Or Corona and Kettle Chips.

[triskellian]

I know, it's strange, isn't it? But then, I'm feeling like that about most of my life at the moment. I'm a one-woman window into the mid-nineties!

[uitlander]

And herein lies the generation gap. My note taking shorthand is still faster than my typing :-)

[triskellian]

I think it's probably a subject gap as well - I did maths and philosophy first time around, and I don't recall having philosophy lectures (think it was taught in classes/seminars instead), and maths note-taking is already all symbols rather than words, so it's different; second time around the lectures mostly came with detailed handouts which just required annotating, so I never really needed a good paper note-taking system. And my handwriting gets terrible at speed, probably because it's quite twirly and the twirls get out of control ;-)