{"id":33089,"date":"2017-12-05T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=33089"},"modified":"2017-12-04T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:30:51","slug":"lets-talk-about-your-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/12\/05\/lets-talk-about-your-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about your notes\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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taken from studentlife.utoronto.ca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nA lot of us wake up in the morning and manage to drag ourselves to class, not really thinking much of it. We sit down, do our time, take our notes, and leave. Simple, right? But then, there\u2019s a lot of us who aren\u2019t able to do that so easily. There\u2019s a lot of us, visible or not, who struggle every day from various difficulties \u2013 it\u2019s not always a hearing, visual, or learning disability. Imagine sitting there in constant physical pain, not able to concentrate enough to take down proper notes. Imagine being unable to fully follow the lecture because you weren\u2019t able to sleep all night from the pain, and even worse, when you\u2019re not allowed to drink any coffee to combat the headache and sleepiness. Imagine the professor pointing at the board saying, this <\/em>and that <\/em>leads to these, <\/em>and you\u2019re sitting there completely flustered. Imagine the test is right around the corner, you log into U of T\u2019s Accessibility Services<\/a> website to check for notes and you find that the generous people helping you out had stopped uploading notes after lecture 3.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve been on both sides of this, the giving and recently, the receiving. On the receiving end, honestly, it isn\u2019t as though the bigger the class size, the higher the chances of someone uploading the notes. One of my smallest lectures had regular uploads by more than two people and my bigger lectures\u2026well, I had to resort to shamelessly making a friend who would help me out. It wasn\u2019t until now that I realized how much the Note-Taking program relies on dedicated volunteer note-takers. More importantly, by being part of this program, I had been helping provide students registered with Accessibility Services achieve academic success and a more fair shot at university - \u00a0because let\u2019s be honest here, U of T is not easy and we\u2019re all in this experience together.\r\n\r\nAs for being a volunteer note-taker, it really did me more good than harm. Not only was it another incentive to attend my lectures regularly and focus properly, my notes improved quiet a lot just by knowing that someone else will be reading them, too. This also meant less time going over and fixing them later for assignments and exams. If giving to the U of T community wasn\u2019t enough, I get to record it on my Co-Curricular Record and receive a Certificate of Appreciation at the end of the term \u2013 all just for a spending a few minutes to upload notes that would otherwise be selfishly sitting in a folder on my laptop for who knows how long.\r\n\r\nSo yes, I know, why would you bother sharing something you\u2019ve spent your own time and effort on for some stranger? There has to be someone else who will do it, right? Yes\u2026but no, not really. The thing is, you\u2019re not the only one who could be thinking that. What if everyone is? Then those registered with Accessibility Services would end up with no accommodation at the end of the day. Next time your instructor makes an announcement about note-taking needs, why not try it out? It takes less than a minute!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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