Jotting notes in talks
By Raymond on May 9, 2009 in College life
In China, students do not like to sit on the front row during conferences or symposiums, so I always have the chance to sit besides professors. I discover that many professors, even they are the leading scientists in the area, love to jot detailed notes. Their pens keep on moving, and their papers are crowded with words and diagrams. In the contrary, many students do not have a pen in their hand, and they just cross their arms comfortably. I am not sure whether they are very familiar with the topic, and so they don’t need to write down anything; or they totally cannot understand what is being spoken, so they cannot write down anything; or they are not interested in the talk, so they do not want to write down anything.
We should learn from the professors who love jotting notes. Not only taking notes can help us to understand and memorize the talk, it also shows an important spirit of scientists: No matter how boring the speech is, and how familiar we are to the topic, there is always something we can learn from another researcher.
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