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From: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
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Subject: Lecture notes
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 14:34:07 EDT
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In article <1372@mnetor.UUCP> sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) writes:
>> ...I said to hell with protocol, and started distributing my
>> lecture notes BEFORE starting to talk.  Suddenly everyone was looking at me!
>> And asking questions!  And thinking!  I'll never go back to the other way.
>> 
>> Bob Schwanke
>
>When I was a student, I found that I paid much more attention to the lecture
>when I was taking notes than when I was reading printed notes.  It also made
>me feel much more like a participant in the whole process, and most importantly
>it kept me awake!
>-- 
>Sophie Quigley


My basic axioms:

1) If you fall asleep in class, you shouldn't be there... there are more 
comfortable places to miss class (i.e. in bed).

2) If the prof. is reading the text to you, don't show up, you're wasting your 
time. 

3) If the prof hand out notes, you know that the notes you have in hand
are correct. One does not waste time in trying to see what is being scribbled
up front. One is also given the chance to look ahead in the notes & try to 
understand. Copying notes is a guarantee that you aren't learning while you are
writing.

Actually, a prof for one of my 3rd year CS courses said at the beginning of the
term that he would essentially read the book to us.  He gave a very
detailed outline, so I showed up to about 2 classes after the first one.
I got something like 92% in the course, and spent about 10 hours total in doing
it. (Not counting assignments which were programming on a heavily loaded weirdo 
machine.) 

The point I'm trying to make here is that your time is wasted when you spend an
hour listening to something that can be read by yourself twice in 15 minutes.

It is also a waste of effort (now assuming that the book is hard to understand)
to make you write down stuff that the prof has written down anyway.

Chris Shaw    watmath!watmum!cdshaw  or  cdshaw@watmath
University of Waterloo

A doze by any other name would be asleep.
		-Hamlet