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How I took my most effective notes in school
Aug 19th
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The new Ron Joyce building, on the QEW towards Toronto, will house the MBA programme going forward. (B.Comm and PhD business students remain at main Hamilton campus).
The following post was in response to a Wall post by the McMaster University, Michael G. DeGroote School of Business Farcebook group on 19 August, 2010:
What’s the best way to take notes in class?
A) Good ol’ paper and pen B) Laptop C) iPad (or other tablet PC) D) Sound / video recording E) My brain absorbs everything I need
Since I didn’t seek permission to copy anyone else’s responses, my own response follows:
I found this entirely depends on whether an individual finds audio information easier to digest or visual. It took me until my MBA (McMaster 2003) to realize that my notes were virtually-useless compared to one listening of an audio recording of the day’s lectures later that evening. Even more so, minidisc recordings of my lectures helped me prepare during exam time, because by then, I had lost even more context to interpret written notes. I find myself reading and re-reading texts several times when trying to learn concepts.
One of the keys to making the most of my attention in class and More >
Arrogance of Science, and Rubiks Cubes
Mar 6th
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I have found that modern scientists have a certain arrogance that was not as evident in the past–a sense that “science has arrived,” and “we didn’t know better back then, but we got it right, now.” And it is this feeling that science cannot do wrong now, I believe, more than anything else, that is dangerous. The other day, I heard on CBC radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is Canada’s public broadcaster, and might be compared to NPR, but it also comprises three radio streams and does broadcast content from alternative, contemporary, and classical music to talk radio) the other day that some scientists had begun to think that the greenhouse gases were out of control and that a viable solution would be to build an orbiting solar shield to counter global warming. That is precisely the kind of thinking that I find is absolutely irresponsible that happens across the pure, applied, and social sciences. We see it in medicine when a researcher makes the leap from “low blood levels of X result in Y,” to a drug that raises X and causes all sorts of complications with Z, W, and the other due to complex interactions that were difficult to More >
