[sakras]

They made us on several different occasions take Cornell notes saying they'd help us learn. Supposedly there were numerous studies saying that students that used them succeeded. I HATED taking these notes - it just makes more sense to me to format things as a textbook-writer would. I think of my notebooks as mini-textbooks.

On a more general note, I've noticed throughout my undergrad experience that whenever some lecturer/Professor/TA comes up and says they read a study about "evidence-based learning" and that this method will help us learn 10x better, they're full of shit. I want nothing more than to take notes however I want, to a lecture.