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While your friends at other University of California institutions go back to class this week, most Berkeley students still have about 14 days before sleeping in till 2 p.m. becomes a sweet, sweet memory.
Still, it may serve us well to brush up on important academic skills, like how to pass our classes. The New York Times has come up with a few interesting pointers for highly effective note-taking, which we have organized into neat bullet points. Freshmen, spring admits and desperate seniors–listen up!
* Get tutored, for units — The Student Learning Center offers for-credit tutorial courses that you can take alongside infamously difficult introductory lectures like Math 1A and Statistics 21. They also have study groups, individual writing tutors and courses on study strategies.
* Take notes on everything, and don’t fall asleep — Wait, so when a professor lowers the lights to show a movie, that doesn’t mean it’s nap time?
* Copy your lecture notes — Apparently, copying your own notes is a great way to internalize the material. And no, we don’t mean heading over to Zee Zee Copy for a xeroxing spree. The New York Times is talking about the highly unrealistic strategy of sitting down, concentrating (ha!), and actually retyping or re-handwriting your notes into a more readable, organized format than your normal chicken scratch.
Of course, these tips only work for people willing to clear their busy schedules. After “Lost,” “Heroes,” “The Wire” and “American Gladiators” premiere, we’re not so sure we can.
How to Survive the Lecture Course [NY Times]
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