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Old 05-04-2013, 08:58 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Well, you must type faster than I can :-) But the real problem with typing to do note taking is how to do the equations & diagrams. I suppose one could get really, really good at LaTeX.
At the end of last semester I decided that had I just written down everything that the professor wrote on the board, I could have had an A. I may obsess over using the computer, but it is kind of like NASA inventing a pen while the Russians used pencils.

I do not know how many more equations and diagrams I will have with my major, but if I do, I will look into LaTeX--or bring a paper notebook.

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Don't know if this is still the case, but at one time many universities prohibited lecture recording by students.
I have not ever heard about that, but I have seen a few students ask for permission to use recorders.

Were they afraid that students would edit the audio?
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