#lecturenotes

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posted by: glowettee

hey study butterflies! ♡ mindyyyyy hereeeee

welcome back to our digital notes series! today i'm going more into the actual note-taking process during lectures/classes. this is important, since you can swap out notebooks for a digital notebook which becomes a lot more seamless.

♡ pre-lecture prep

because being prepared changes everything:

night before setup:

review previous notes (refresh your memory!)

pre-read lecture slides

create note template

set up quick-access tools

prepare questions

charge all devices

quick-access toolbar:

highlighting shortcuts

screenshot tool ready

recording software open

reference materials linked

custom stickers folder

favorite templates

♡ the actual note-taking method

this changed my whole study game:

(SUPER IMPORTANT) the butterfly method (my signature system):

main points in center

supporting details on left wing

examples on right wing

questions in antennae section

vocabulary in body section

connections in trail section

active engagement tricks:

use different colors for different types of information

create mini mind maps as you go

add little drawings for visual memory

insert voice memos for complex topics

flag confusing points with cute markers

leave space for post-lecture additions

♡ making it aesthetic but effective

because why not have both?:

visual organization:

use boxes for definitions

clouds for main concepts

stars for important points

hearts for memorable examples

arrows for connections

flowers for chapter markers

color coding system:

pink for main concepts

lavender for examples

mint for definitions

peach for formulas

baby blue for dates

gold for important warnings

♡ dealing with fast-paced lectures

because professors/teachers love to speed-talk:

shorthand system:

create cute abbreviations

use symbols for common words

develop personal code system

quick bullet points

voice record if allowed

flag for later review

quick capture methods:

screenshot important slides

quick sketch diagrams

voice memo key points

type keywords only

mark confusion points

flag for detailed review

♡ post-lecture enhancement

because the real magic happens after:

immediate review:

fill in gaps while fresh

add pretty headings

organize messy sections

insert relevant images

complete examples

link related concepts

enhancement techniques:

create summary boxes

add practice questions

insert related resources

make concept connections

highlight key points

add memory triggers

effective notes aren't just about capturing everything - they're about creating a resource you'll actually want to review! think of it like creating your own aesthetic textbook that speaks your language.

pro tip: don't try to make everything perfect during the lecture. focus on capturing information first, make it pretty later! i usually spend 15 minutes after each lecture prettifying my notes.

xoxo, mindy 🎀

040521_geography

i forgot my password to this acc ._.

Hello Everyone!

I hope you’ve all had a wonderful weekend!

Today I wanted to share my tips and experience in the jump from Sixth form/Highschool to University/College.

There is a lot of lessons I have learnt over my two years at university, So I think I might turn this into a little series! So, keep an eye out! But for this week, here are my tips and tricks for lecture theatre note-taking! Enjoy!

From Classroom notes to Lecture Theatre:

Determine whether you can type quicker than you can write. The pace of a lecture varies between lecturers. But you want to be prepared for the snails and the cheetahs. You want to gain an understanding from the lecture, concentrating on the content, not panicking what content you have missed. Do what works best for you, not what you think you should do.

Please DO NOT copy the lecture slides. Nine times out of ten, you will have access to your lecture slides after the lecture. But fewer universities record their lectures. Write down what the lecturer is saying! This information cannot be accessed quickly or at all after the lecture - So focus on it! Your notes do not need to be pretty/complete; they need to be informative!

Asterisk/make a note of sections you may have missed. No one is expecting you to pick up everything in a lecture. We all get sloppy, and sitting in lecture theatres for hours upon end can be exhausting. Mark it out, so you know to check your lecture recording when you go back over your notes or ask a friend if they took note of it. Personally, I use ‘PAN’ to mark out information.

Ask your friends for notes at APPROPRIATE times. If you are mid-way through a lecture, don’t start pestering your friend for the note you have missed. Wait for the interval or a break in the lecture. Otherwise, while your friend is helping you, they are also missing potentially vital information.

Write in short-hand. Use standard abbreviations and make up your own too! E.g. APC = Antigen Presenting Cell or Spec = Spectroscopy. You will find you are getting your notes down faster, so you have more time to spend paying attention to the lecturer. Make sure you note them down though, there is no point writing in abbreviations if you cant remember what they mean later!

Remember to put the date on your work. When you drop all your notes, and they go out of order, you’ll thank me for this one. It makes finding your notes a lot easier. Even if you are on a computer, date your work. It can help you keep track of lectures you’ve missed or content you have lost etc.

Separate your notes via lecture slide. Personally, I like to write my notes in paragraphed bullet points. So my notes for slide 1 are in consecutive bullet points, and then I add a double space for the next slide. This helps me keep track of my notes, without writing lots of sub-titles - which can become time consuming in fast paced lectures. See the example below, it’s a little clearer than my explanation... haha!

I know 7 tips is an odd number to finish on, but I don’t want to give out pointless tips, so I think I shall leave it here!

Just remember, that EVERYONE in the lecture is new to university life and is still learning to get the hang of things too. Lecturers understand this, you aren’t the first lot of freshers they have taught, and you won’t be the last. Ask questions, enjoy your subject, relax. Time will fly by before you know it!

As always, you’ve got this!💪

Speak soon,

07/17/2020

Day 16/30 days of productivity!

Today during lecture I decided to switch up the hand I was using to write notes😅

I am right handed but I used my left hand today to write it was hard and I was slower at writing and my handwriting looked like a toddlers handwriting, but it was fun and engaging and kept my attention span on the lecture rather than doing something else:)

Also cuz one of my goals is to learn how to write with both hands and i thought it was a perfect time cuz no one is going to see my notes :p

What are your goals?

Presentation 1: Bug Bounties

 Where to start Hunting?

Crowd-sourced bug bounty website

Bug crowd

Open to public

Tips to get started

Learn web application principles

Look for wider scope and less competition

Increase number of bugs

Less likelihood of dupes

Stay in scope

Look for assets which have changed recently

Look for publicly disclosed reports

Start at comfortable difficulty

Work towards your skills

Teamwork

 Process of Bug Bounty

Find a suitable program

Review the scope

Find the target via recon

Hit target and find vulnerability

Write a report

Submit the report to the company

 Training resources

Hacker101

Sql injections

Password management

Fuzzing

Eg of fuzzing software - afl

Technique used to look for bugs

Have program and repeatedly feed it input and observe if any bugs are produced

Different types of fuzzers:

Multination-based vs generation based

Aware of input size

The Heartbleed bug

 Presentation 2: Pen Testing

 Pen Testing

Detect vulnerabilities and expose them

Is an authorised simulated cyberattack on a computer system to evaluate risks

Repercussions of an attack on your security system

Why it is important

It allows us to discover vulnerabilities in our system before attackers do

It can test your security controls (firewalls, ips, ids)

Sometimes thinking like an attacker is the best way

Practical uses of pen testing

Gives coverage to companies without getting hacked

Get ahead of the curve

Stages of pen testing

Recon - intelligence is gathered

Planning

Exploitation

Post exploitation

Pen testing tools

Metasploit

Gobuster

Burb

Wireshark - analysing network connections

Nnmap

Kali - package has tools like info gatherinr, reverse engineering, reporting tools, password attacks, maintaining access, exploitation tools, forensics tools, wireless attacks

Burpsuite - most popular software used to test sofware

CTF Websites

Pwnable.com can be used to practise

Read up about the NSW LPI and think about what assets they have and what risks arise from them having been privatised  eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_Land_and_Property_Informat

 Shared secret - when the person that needs to be authenticated and the person is authenticated have a secret between them. This can be used to authenticate. Eg. A certain code word

Problem with authentication - if computer has been preloaded with shared secrets and these secrets have been used once, then that's a problem

How can you detect and protect against the man in the middle?

Web of trust (PgP) and PKI. (check out how PGP does authentication using web of trust)

PKI

Links your public key to usually a web domain. It's certified to something that everyone trusts

SSL/TLS

Read Bruce Schneir's paper

Certificate authority ties the key to a domain name. it doesn't tie the key to anyone in the world

 Look up how the TLS handshake works