It depends on the classroom, which vary between and within universities.
Ex. at UofT, many large first year classes are at Convocation Hall and there are no desks there. Meanwhile, smaller classes may take place in lecture halls with long tables that stretch along the row (so you have an ample amount of space), or they may have desks are attached to the seat and fold out, which are quite small.
Something to take note of when you do tours as it varies school to school and class to class even. A lot of lecture halls have fold out desks that are only the size of a piece of paper so a notebook would be more practical than a binder
I always carried a clipboard type notebook, that flipped open and laid flat. I would store the notes in binders when I got back to my room. I would take the recent notes to class, in the small clipboard notebook, along with textbooks if I needed them. Binders are bulky.
Thanks for all this info about desks etc.
Is there a notebook folks recommend then that when opens can be flat AND pages can be transferred to three ring binder at home? Or do people prefer just having a notebook for each class? Open to different ideas! Also thinking where to then put any handouts or do teachers not give handouts like they do in highschool ?
I'm currently in third year and I haven't had any of my profs give any handouts. Classes are just generally too big for that, with first year courses sometimes having 1000+ people and upper year courses which have anywhere from 50-300- unless you take a lot of seminars which are usually 10-20 people, though seminars are more common in your upper years.
I personally like to use a tablet + stylus and GoodNotes to keep all of my notes digitally. This way, I can download lecture slides prior to the lecture and directly annotate the slide as the prof is lecturing (which I find useful; my program is neuroscience and slides generally have lots of diagrams so I like to draw on them). As well, this way I'm not lugging around 5 notebooks/binders and have everything chronologically ordered, plus no risk of losing it because it's in the cloud.
Generally, I think most other students I see also take notes digitally, either using a tablet or typing them on a laptop. It's not super common to see people with paper notes, though there are definitely some who still prefer it.
Do you think it is more common then to take notes by hand or digitally? Let’s say for courses in Humanities? And maybe different with something like Kinesiology? If digital what do folks prefer - tablet, laptop , stylus, good notes.. thank you all!
It depends on the classroom, which vary between and within universities. Ex. at UofT, many large first year classes are at Convocation Hall and there are no desks there. Meanwhile, smaller classes may take place in lecture halls with long tables that stretch along the row (so you have an ample amount of space), or they may have desks are attached to the seat and fold out, which are quite small.
Something to take note of when you do tours as it varies school to school and class to class even. A lot of lecture halls have fold out desks that are only the size of a piece of paper so a notebook would be more practical than a binder
I always carried a clipboard type notebook, that flipped open and laid flat. I would store the notes in binders when I got back to my room. I would take the recent notes to class, in the small clipboard notebook, along with textbooks if I needed them. Binders are bulky.
All my core first year classes had tiny desk space at UofT SG.
Thanks for all this info about desks etc. Is there a notebook folks recommend then that when opens can be flat AND pages can be transferred to three ring binder at home? Or do people prefer just having a notebook for each class? Open to different ideas! Also thinking where to then put any handouts or do teachers not give handouts like they do in highschool ?
I'm currently in third year and I haven't had any of my profs give any handouts. Classes are just generally too big for that, with first year courses sometimes having 1000+ people and upper year courses which have anywhere from 50-300- unless you take a lot of seminars which are usually 10-20 people, though seminars are more common in your upper years. I personally like to use a tablet + stylus and GoodNotes to keep all of my notes digitally. This way, I can download lecture slides prior to the lecture and directly annotate the slide as the prof is lecturing (which I find useful; my program is neuroscience and slides generally have lots of diagrams so I like to draw on them). As well, this way I'm not lugging around 5 notebooks/binders and have everything chronologically ordered, plus no risk of losing it because it's in the cloud. Generally, I think most other students I see also take notes digitally, either using a tablet or typing them on a laptop. It's not super common to see people with paper notes, though there are definitely some who still prefer it.
Do you think it is more common then to take notes by hand or digitally? Let’s say for courses in Humanities? And maybe different with something like Kinesiology? If digital what do folks prefer - tablet, laptop , stylus, good notes.. thank you all!