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I'm trying to find a way to get through lectures, textbooks, and everything else that doesn't suit my nature. One method that I'm fond of at the moment is that of "multitasking".

I bring a book to my lectures. If the professor writes on the board, I read a book until a sufficient amount of information is queued. Once this is reached, I write down the information.

For classes without copious notes, I try to tune in when my sixth sense tells me something interesting is being said. It's nearly impossible to get anything useful out of such classes otherwise.

One of my classes makes use of PowerPoint slides, but the information is too terse to be useful. Likewise, the book operates too much on general information with a dearth of useful applications and examples. In this class, I am trying to make my own applications. Since this is my Algorithms class, I am attempting to make Emacs Lisp implementations of the most important algorithms.

I'm not entirely convinced that this is a good way to get through college, but it beats sitting bored in a class, tuning everything out. It is also better than trying to ... ah ... "optimize" the number of classes that I attend.