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Chit-Chat: Community Supporter DCC

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♪Twiggy♪ said:
Apologies for the late reply!

They now only got these new MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros that doesn't have a plastic casing - if you want something sturdy, get a MBP. (You don't have to blow your money on the Retina Display one)

Or you could look at something that's not an ultraportable, too. (In my experience, plastic laptops tend to be the flimsier ones. So do take note of the feel. It's best to actually have the laptop(s) in question to be tried out physically.)

As for supportership, well, I think maybe we should just go out and make the entire forum visible to any and all supporters, not just T3 and above. And staff should be made to be able to post... Permissions issue?
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That's a sight to see. I never thought I'd see you advocating Macs! Ahahaha.
 
Macs are overrated tbh. While I do think my iPhone is amazing... I just think that after using macs for uni they're way too confusing and it's taken me three years of classes to get the basics lol.
 
When it comes to uni for me nothing beats a good ol' exercise book and pen. Ill use my conputer for essays and whatnot but computers in general are too confusing and awkward for taking notes... they are also heavier than exercise books. Outside of class and note taking idc about what os it has.
 
Note taking is SO HARD on computers. How can you possibly take notes when you have the ENTIRE INTERNET TO SURF?!
 
That is why I never used my laptop in lectures. Way too distracting.
 
Handwriting gives me cramps after a few sentences. I had trouble signing some forms the other day >< since I'm so used to typing and handwriting has always pained me (I can't hold a pen properly ;~;!) I had special provisions to do my standardised exams with a school-provided laptop when I was still in high school. It was actually unfair because I can type faster than most people, whereas I think much, much faster than I write.

I can still draw with my tablet for ages though >_<

I study long-distance so all my notes are online or I can type them up from the podcast, but I've attended university physically before and tape recorders are good, then you go home and write stuff down =p So low-tech lol. I favour laptops/tablets though.
 
I tried using my laptop to take notes in class. It didn't take long to revert to pen and paper, especially since complex mathematical symbols were involved. My writing is messy as heck, but hey, I'm the only one who needs to read it xD
 
I'm more of a "pen and notebook" kind of person rather than the one that uses the laptop for notes. I don't know why I haven't transitioned from the pen to the keyboard. I would like to transition asap, but I'm gonna miss the handwriting. So I don't really want to let go of that. D:

Back in college last year we were forced to take notes on computer, but it was just so distracting with the internet an all tbh.
 
The worst thing about people typing in lectures is the noise! It gets pretty distracting if you have five people tapping keys all around you.

Pen and Paper all the way!
 
I honestly have never been able to work out how people can type up notes whilst in a class. It just seems so unnatural. I do everything else like write a paper or do an exam on the computer, but having to type what someone is saying and still try to remember what that person said and put it into context just seems like too many things to do at once.
Plus like everyone else said, computers are distracted I'd probably get nothing done.
 
I know I'd be on PC and Facebook during class if I ever brought my laptop in :P Of course, many of our classrooms were in older buildings, and they had wi-fi antennas but not nearly enough power outlets for everyone. And considering that most of my grad school classes were of the three hour variety, most computer batteries wouldn't have lasted.

I was known, however, for pulling out my DS from time to time and beating the Elite Four in Platinum during class. I'm not sure if the professors noticed, but if they did they didn't particularly care :P Never got yelled at for it once.
 
♪Twiggy♪ said:
I must be the only one that does note-taking using OneNote in lectures.
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No you're not, I do that too! :D
I thought I was the only one when none of my friends had heard of OneNote before they saw me using it. XD It's the best note-taking software for laptops, IMO.
 
All of you are silly. The superior method is recording lectures instead! Assuming your computer microphone is good enough and you aren't in a huge lecture hall and it isn't a class that needs any visuals or anything like that.
 
Patchisou Yutohru said:
All of you are silly. The superior method is recording lectures instead! Assuming your computer microphone is good enough and you aren't in a huge lecture hall and it isn't a class that needs any visuals or anything like that.
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Too bad my lectures are math stuff and programming. xD You're guaranteed to be missing information with just audio. :P
 
Besides the whole "I took mostly math classes where everything was written on the board" thing, many of my professors had thick accents that I could hardly understand sitting there in class, much less on a recording device. I seemed to get more foreign professors especially in grad school.
 
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