Trying to change up my reading practices for school lately. My professor for Persuasion assigned more than one reading on the subject of good reading and studying habits. So I've actually been underlining in my book. Not only underlining, but also writing notes in the margins.
This sounds rather innocuous, but for me, it is nearly sacrilege on par with dog-earing the pages and leaving the book propped open upside-down so that the spine cracks. And I'm using pencil, not even highlighter or pen. It's helpful, I'm not denying it, but it feels so wrong.
But there is something that makes me feel so incredibly productive when I flip through a chapter of my book, seeing the occasional underlining and the neat little notes in the margins, connecting concepts here and there to other places in the book and even to other courses this semester.
Because, seeing as how I'm immersed in my major this semester and every class I'm taking is in my program, things are connecting all over the place. It's gotten to the point - already - that I sometimes don't remember in which class I learned which concept. It's overlapping and building up and just connecting all over the place, so I've got notes linking the classes together in the margins of every book.
It's nice. Different, but nice. I feel like this is actually worth the time I am spending, as opposed to being just random concepts thrown together into a schedule for the year.
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