Learning

[omega 616]

When you were in school, how did you learn?

Did you take loads of notes or did you just stare at the board and write what you were told to? Maybe something else.

I don't know how I learned but I stared at the board and write what I was told, to be honest I have no idea how to take notes. I usually got out of class and had no idea what just went on or remember anything that was said or wrote on the board.

So what about you?

 

[Talshere]

By and large I didnt

I sort of just absorbed knowledge. In secondary (11-16) I slept through many classes, regularly turned up 2 or 3 hrs late for school never did any work outside of lesson unless it was actual marked coursework for my final official government grade. I was a terrible pupil

In college (16-18) I did much the same except in maths which I learnt through overload. As I came up finals in maths I was doing at least 2hrs thought study a day plus 30min-2hrs HWK.


At uni, well. Sit in lecture. Take notes, never look at them again till I revise with a cooked breakfast and a premium coffee from my fav cafe down the road.

To learn equations I get a piece of paper and write down 3 3 or 4 times. I go do something for 20 mins or so then write them down again. Once I no longer need to look I add another 3. I learnt 24 equations in 5 days by heart doing this for one exam

Strangely. I generally find I work more efficiently at night. So much so that during my dissertation I actually got up at 4pm, worked from 9pm till 6am, chilled till 9 or 10am then slept till4 or 5 ish.

 

[teqrevisited]

I wrote everything down, gave a half-hearted attempt at most activities (I went really overboard with creative writing assignments though) and disregarded all homework and thinking about school subjects in general once the bell had rang.

 

[Jonluw]

I don't really take notes.
I might write down important laws in physics and maths, but other than that, my notebooks are blank. Not that I really look at my notes afterwards either. I just listen to what the teacher says.
Well, that and doodling. I draw a lot of meaningless shit.

 

[omega 616]

So it seems we all learn like (my science teacher said) sponges, just absorb it then release it all in the exam.

I have no idea how all the info sticks in my noodle but a lot of it seems to. I notice people make notes but the one time I was forced to I just wrote down everything, which meant I was really far behind in that class.

 

[DanielBrown]

Spent most of my time half asleep, studying and doing my homework at the very last minute.
Still graduated with really good grades.

 

[henkalv]

did not take notes, just kept my head up in class and did activities.

 

[keideki]

It depends on the subject for me. If it is a subject I like or care about such as Anthropology I tend to just absorb the lectures, take minimal notes and do TONS of reading. I have a special talent like that though, I can remember whole pages of text. I guess if I had to say it, I have a talent for memorization. Some people are strait up geniuses that just know the stuff, other people are geniuses of hard work. They know how to plan their time and have the perseverance and force of will to brute force knowledge into their heads. I can just read the text and spit it back out, almost verbatim. When it comes to subjects I don't really care for though? It all goes in one ear and out the other. I have to take pages and pages of notes, or record lectures and listen to them again to get everything down. Even my memorization skills seem to fail me when it comes to the subjects I never cared for. I'm sure the ability is there, but not the focus or will power.

 

[whiteshark12]

just kind of remembered it, for a lot of subjects like physics it's pretty logical. I still had to take notes for maths though :/

 

[C F]

I mentally dissect and cross-analyze all the information given to me. I try not to blindly accept anything.

Figuring out how crap fits together and deriving answers from this knowledge eliminates the need for notes. Most of the time, anyway.

 

[imnot]

I mentally dissect and cross-analyze all the information given to me. I try not to blindly accept anything.

Figuring out how crap fits together and deriving answers from this knowledge eliminates the need for notes. Most of the time, anyway.

Besides we all know everything was done by ancient aliens.

I don't really take notes.
I might write down important laws in physics and maths, but other than that, my notebooks are blank. Not that I really look at my notes afterwards either. I just listen to what the teacher says.
Well, that and doodling. I draw a lot of meaningless shit.

You sound like me, theres proberly more stupid scribbles than there is science in my biology book.

 

[Jonluw]

I don't really take notes.
I might write down important laws in physics and maths, but other than that, my notebooks are blank. Not that I really look at my notes afterwards either. I just listen to what the teacher says.
Well, that and doodling. I draw a lot of meaningless shit.

You sound like me, theres proberly more stupid scribbles than there is science in my biology book.

Know that feel, bro.
Over the three last years I've amassed a couple of notebooks that I've been reusing for different subjects.
My current chemistry book, for example.
The front page looks like this:

My name
Geography French
Chemistry.

Inside, you'll find that I've written the definition of Oxidization and nothing more. (There used to be a couple of drawings of river deltas there, but I ripped out those pages.)

If you start leafing through it from the back though, you'll find a good deal of random drawings. Oh, and data samples from experiments.
It's the book I use for shitty no-effort doodling.
The drawings I put effort into, I draw in my physics and Norwegian books. Infact, I would say it's their primary function.

It's all quite comical, really.

 

[henkalv]

I have one otebook for everything, which I only use for important messages. Don´t doodle in it though, might miss something of class

 

[Draken Steel]

Just listened mostly. Took some notes, but never looked at them after (though with my hand writting I could barely read them anyway). Did most of my homework in class, if at all.

Got pretty good grades, until 12th. Had 1 B and rest A's the first 9 weeks....then I did jack all. Spent most of my time in class sleeping, reading warhammer 40k books or doing WoW theorycrafting. I did exactly what i needed to to pass, the the extent that I didnt do the last 1/4 of a semester test, because I didnt need above a 75. Had a 1.0 my last semester, failed the classes I didnt need the credit in.

Depression sucks.

 

[imnot]

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The back 14 or so pages of my RE book is marked Lord of the Rings territory, where I drew a double page spread of Mordor and stuff instead of learning why christians dont like abortions or whatever.

 

[spartan231490]

I learn quick. In my entire high school and college career, I've only been in one class that didn't bore the hell out of my by how slow it moved, and I still could have gone faster than that.

I generally take very light notes as reference points for my memory, and just think about what the teacher/prof is saying. But that's just how my brain works, I don't suggest doing the same.

 

[Jonluw]

The back 14 or so pages of my RE book is marked Lord of the Rings territory, where I drew a double page spread of Mordor and stuff instead of learning why christians dont like abortions or whatever.

Hm.
I've never tried themes.
Maybe I should do that.

 

[LordFisheh]

I learned how to answer exams, and I think there might have been a subject or two somewhere in there as well.

More seriously, it depended on the teacher. I did learn most of the 'traditional' knowledge I have there, but the exam focus was a real killer. It's hard to be interested in something when you know you're memorising x y and z for a timed essay. Even more so when you devote half your 'lesson' to how to get optimal marks on said essay instead of, you know, learning.

 

[Lawnmooer]

I didn't...

I spent the majority of my lesson time; asleep, dicking around or not in the lesson (A lot of the time not even on school grounds)

Heck the only reason I managed to do any of my coursework is because my teachers kept me in after school and made me do it then... (Or I did it as part of a detention during lunchtime)

Looking through my old school books they are really crappy for actually learning things from, since they either only have work written on the first page (My French, Spanish, Biology and a couple of my Chemistry books), are filled entirely with doodles (My RE, Math and English books) or are filled in with exactly what was on the board so I can't even decipher it as it is not written in my own words (My History books, since the teacher made me write everything down to revise from... Which I never did)

I'm left slightly confused about how I did so well at my exams, since I basically went through middle school thinking I was an idiot then got into high school and just knew everything when I was asked questions (Or given one of the hundreds of exams I had to do (I'd be given 5-10 exams per week because I was in the top classes...))

Now in college I've got a different system, I half pay attention to my tutors (I spend more time talking with my friends, getting in trouble for talking and being punished by either being sent out the lesson (And forfeiting the money I'd get that week for being in all my lessons) or given push ups) whilst also writting down brief notes which can be accurately described by most people as "Gibberish"

So far it's currently a working system, I do make some people jealous as they try quite hard to pay attention in lessons and then can't understand what was said whereas I seem to just absorb information without trying...

 

[Something Amyss]

I was more of an independent learner.