What I've Learned So Far

1. Since this senior project has begun, I've learned how to take better research notes from textbooks. I am not the best note taker in the world, so I'm willing to any suggestions for note taking strategies. At first, I did all of my notes using alternative note taking skills that we learned in the beginning of the year. But the method that I was using slowed be down greatly, and didn't help me retain what I learned. I was a reader, not a writer, and this style of alternative note taking was torture to myself and my bad handwriting. I switched to Cornell note taking, and I can now finish my thirty page chapter in 1.5 hours, and retain a large portion of what I read.
2. Before and after of my notes [Pictures]
3. If it wasn't for my text book "Principles of Marketing", then I wouldn't have been forced to figure out how to do these notes. It's a standard school text book, and learning this skill will train me to read chapters even better to pick out all of the important information- a useful skill when I go off to college. Also, the Physics website helped me a bit in figuring out what Cornell Notes are exactly. (I originally thought that alternatitve note taking- or the way that I was doing notes- were Cornell Notes. Yep, I'm not the best note taker.)