Well since you're in Commerce:
Commerce 1PA0
- No real reason to take
notes. It's a Pass/Fail course that depends on your attendance and whether you do quizzes. All slides get posted online anyways. I don't even think your score on the quizzes matter, but most of them are easy to get so long as you pay a very slight bit of attention.
Commerce 1E03
- First year I had Cossa as my prof. Slides will be given before lecture. Blanks are left in the slides that you fill out while in class. She also didn't allow laptops for the first half of the term (then took it easy the second half and said we could.)
- Cossa was pregnant my first year and wasn't around my second year. From what I've heard last year they had the same prof as my 2nd year marketing prof (Capretta). Capretta doesn't give out slides with blanks in 2nd year marketing, I'm not sure about 1E03.
Comp Sci 1BA3
- There were 2 different profs in my first year. Barely anyone showed up for Hurst. He posts his
notes online (though whether or not they'll actually help is a different story... although from what I've heard he was easier last year)
ECON 1B03 / 1BB3
- 1B03 you're mostly likely gonna get Holmes. She basically reads off her powerpoints and posts them all online.
- 1BB3 I had O'Shaughnessy. She posts all her lectures in podcasts form
- Both of these classes aren't that hard and you'll be fine so long as you have the powerpoints/podcasts.
Math 1M03
- Unless you have a tablet, it's a good idea to bring paper. Then again, it's math so it's kinda self explanatory
and from Course List 1
Sociology 1A06
- The year I took it, the course was piss easy, but the prof no longer teaches that course. Either way I heard that it was still easy last year. All I really needed was the textbook and powerpoint slides and didn't really show up for class.
Psychology 1X03
- All the lectures are online. Whether you want to type it out or write it out is up to you.
I have a tablet. Starting second year I began to compile my
notes all in Microsoft OneNote. It's really kinda hard to say whether or not it's a good idea *just* typing out
notes, since most courses will throw in the occasional diagram or graph.