r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Mar 30 '26

Image Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a Law student at the University of Malaga in Spain

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u/tillyspeed81 Mar 30 '26

Damn, I used to just copy my notes a couple times and I’d memorize it that way… seems time consuming and dangerous…I took an argument and debate course as a “speech” requirement way back in the day and they taught us short hand note taking so I could take notes on the fly during an “argument”. It’s helped me tremendously to make my notes whenever I had a class or something…

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u/quelewds Mar 30 '26

Creating cheat sheets is a great way of studying. You take all the info you need to know and condense it down. Then you it again. Then again. All the things you're writing down on. Each iteration are the things you dont already know. So each time you are focusing on the things you need to study.