[Seamoth]

taking notes more quickly in college

Notes can be rendered worthless if even one word is unambiguous, especially in math classes. Been there, done that. I found it a far better use of my time to keep a table of acronyms and use that to speed up block printing. My record is 11 pages of block print in a 55 minute class, and I still have the notes from that class to prove it.

[Tired of Taxes]

Like another Freeper here, I was asked by other students for my notes in college courses all the time. I took excellent notes in cursive. If you learn how to write cursive well when you're young, you can write in cursive very quickly later and it will still be legible to anyone reading it.

I cannot block print as quickly because I have to pick up my pen to make each letter.

So far, my kids are having no problems at all learning cursive. Oddly enough, my middle child had some difficulty learning to print neatly in block letters, but he picked up on cursive right away.