Note taking

I am really not good at taking notes. Since I am an international student and I have some difficulties taking notes and listening to lecture, it is very hard for me to take good notes in class. I sometimes just give up on taking notes and rather listen to lecture when I feel like I would be able to remember all what the instructors say. However, I always fail to remember the information I got in the lecture. I needed some way to help myself recording lectures. I thought the blog this week was a good chance for me to overcome my difficulties on taking notes.

I take notes in class of course but since I almost copy what my TA writes on board or dictate what he says, my notes from MAT are not organized. It is not easy for me to find the terms in my notes because they are in between the example problems. To make it simpler to look up those terms, I wrote all the terms on a separate sheet of paper.

I wrote the definitions on the bigger box, the key point on the top box and the terms on the box on the left. Now I can see what I have learned on this day just by looking at this sheet.
However, since this is math, I feel like I still have to go back to my original notes to see the examples the terms and definitons are applied in.

By making a new note for MAT, I could review once more and felt more organized.

I think this is a good strategy to use when you wanna be organized in terms of notes and you have many terms to review.