How I make notes in the class

1. In order to concentrate on what the professor is teaching, I try to prune a lot of chaotic processing of information happening in my head while I sit in the dynamic environment of the classroom like the falling of a pen, a student sneezing, my neighbor scribbling away almost everything uttered, or random strong thoughts from my memory like lyrics of my favorite song which I had listened to like 10 times before coming to the lecture that morning, etc.

2. While making notes I use traffic management to manage listening and writing tasks, i.e. I tend to choose bins of time when the professor is not speaking (for eg: when he is writing on the board or setting up the projector ) and execute my writing task in those bins. Sometimes my brain does multitasking by writing as well as listening simultaneously where writing is more like a motor task with me not consciously digging out words from the recent memory.

3. While writing with a pen, my hand automatically picks up the pen and holds it in the right position to write but my hand never moves completely uniformly on the paper because my handwriting consists of a lot of non uniformity. Sometimes while scribbling very fast, the words become illegible as my hand muscles trained to write the words at a particular pace are unable to keep up the pace with the information inflow to my brain.