Age: 18
Department: Chemical Engineering
Year: Freshman
How do you keep up with taking notes during the courses?
No, it never required to do so. Neither my classmates... Until now nothing urged me to take notes during courses. After the pandemic, every note necessary was put into the university’s systems as PDFs or word documents (there are 4 in total). Here, we can find information such as the subjects that will be lectured, the exam program, exam results. You can even message instructors using the system. Yet since there are more than one system has been used, sometimes things can become messy.
Have you ever asked to share your notes? If so, how do you share them? (segmentation→ content creator or consumer or both)
Yes sometimes, for the homeworks or pre-lab researches we share with each other using messaging apps’ groups.
What kind of extra resources do you look for your courses?
For the homeworks, I look for extra resources. For the term paper I could not find enough resources on the web. I’ve checked the school library and found resources for home works. Library system has a search feature, so I put the keywords and found the books. Sometimes I took photos of the pages and we share them with each other. We use Whatsapp, Discord and Telegram groups to share the material.
I cannot find academic articles, I don’t know how to access databases, it’s very hard and nobody knows how to access them.
I’d prefer to access the books without going to library, the rules of the library is too restrictive and sometimes I may not be able to go there.
How do you store and organize the resources you find?
For the prelab researches, I write down the answers directly under the questions. For term papers, on Word I create a draft by inserting the material extracted from the resources I found.