No.. You get them for free if you ask in person. People who buy notes online are just too awkward to ask in person. I've had a friend turn down 200 dollars for a set of notes for a class for a stranger.. People are a lot nicer than you think.

EDIT: I don't go to her school so have no reason for her notes. The guy who offered was some international student (asian), and this was a first year commerce class at UofT Rotman.

Yeah I guess... I think what I don't like about some of their services is that it helps the lazy. I mean really? Buying notes so that you don't have to take them? That's not what college is about.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but it won't do justice to these kids in the longrun. They won't learn near as much and won't get the full worth out of the education they are paying out the ass for. But whatever, to each their own.

Shit happens, you miss classes for legit reasons all the time, nice to be able to get the notes from someone actually taking good ones. Most kids in college are always broke as hell, they can't spend $5 per class all semester. Seems like a nice way to catch up if you get behind.

They won't learn near as much and won't get the full worth out of the education they are paying out the ass for.

You don't necessarily need to learn all that much. And indeed, for many liberal arts degrees, you can forget the material post-exam sans consequences. It isn't like English majors have any type of professional exams they need to pass.

Also, I think you're failing to consider that there are many people who absorb material more easily in written form than listening to somebody talk. So one could be perfectly diligent and still have good cause to use this.

Last, I think you misunderstand the function of college for most people. It isn't about acquiring actual knowledge. Were it, there are much cheaper options. Rather, it is about proving one's merits as a future employee. College grads make more on average, and even if they didn't there'd be a clear social pressure for many to enroll, such that the actual learning is at best an afterthought for most.

Basically 2 Redditors "found" each other over a reddit post. I don't have the original series of posts, but reddit was so for them going on a date that their first date was paid for by someone in the community (or a company, I remember it in very vague terms). Anyway it was a big deal, it was going to be THE Reddit couple. Everyone was all happy for them. It didn't work out, there was no spark, and everyone now believes that it was a huge Karma scandal.

LoL, well you take a website that has a fairly broad spectrum of people, a ton of which seem to be FA's or consider themselves to be FA's and hang a "look, these people found each other on reddit - it could happen to you!" hambone in front of all of us and wave it around. I think it was just a let down, people felt like they got used for being excited for something that was fake. It wasn't a life-altering deal, but it's a disappointment about how fake people can be.

I'll try to hunt down the original link, but basically this girl (I_am_the_cheese) posted an askreddit post about being bored in physics and the top reply was another redditor claiming to be in her class (can't remember his name). The post completely blows up after he provides proof and we demand to see a picture of them together. They eventually post a picture and shortly after a conspiracy theory forms that the post was all a giant set up to reap glorious glorious Karma and make us look like gullible fools.

Edit: Vikaroo beat me to it and provided more details, and neither of us can find the post.
Edit 2: My post is shit, please disregard.

Does anyone know what happened to that couple that were going to either do tap/ball room Swing dancing? They met up (prior, to make sure each was a not a freak) to have a coffee, tell cats some cat facts, maybe even went rock climbing and they played xbox/play station game at his apartment and she wouldn't say any more?

I wanted to know how that went, I liked insinuating that they did things together ;)

She doesn't have to add any errors. Her classmates know that they don't have to take notes, since they can just read hers. Of course, if you take notes yourself, you're more likely to understand the material and do better on the tests. And then there may be people who decide not to show up to class because they have the notes anyways, so it's not like they'll miss anything, right?

Unfortunately, the people who go to class but don't take notes will perform worse, and the people who decide not to go to class will perform worst of all.

So, actually, just saying that you take good notes and that you'll share them should push you ahead in the curve.

There was this one guy in my psychology class last semester that would always send me the lecture recording if I couldn't make it to class. I didn't even know him, but he saved my ass a couple of times. I heard he did the same thing for a lot of other people. Good guy.

I have a livescribe pen for my classes and the best benefit of having one is offering to help a cute girl who missed a lecture by giving her a copy of the notes via Audio and a PDF of said notes being transcribed in real time to the audio :D

101 classes were some of the biggest pains in the ass for me. Universities are often lax with admissions, then weed out the weak in the entry-level courses. I recall BA101, while not intellectually challenging, was a ton of work and the professor gave mini-quizzes every day to punish those who didn't attend.

Troll guide - 1. Take really good notes 2. Post them online to share with the class 3. After trust is established, start making up random notes that are totally irrelevant, or just flat out give wrong info 4. ????? 5. Profit!

I had a girl in my philosophy class do the same thing except she just sent us the word documents. She seriously saved my ass. I don't even know her, but I would love to give her, well whatever she wanted. My fucking hero.

i actually do this in the majority of my classes. its not that i take good notes, but i'd rather spread the wealth, and hopefully the trend catches on. if school is to prepare you for the work world, it should act like the work world. in the work world, you work with others and collaborate, and if you dont know or understand something, there's always someone you work with you can help you out.

I did that for my Systematics of Mammals class. I took pictures of all the bones and pelts of the animals and then created a powerpoint. I then left it on the discussion board so everyone in my class can get them. My professor thanked me and asked permission to use my pictures for future classes. I figured since I would be doing it for myself anyways, it wouldn't hurt to just share the powerpoints with my classmates.

I wouldn't do that. If people are going to be lazy and not take notes or study that's just better for me. Lowers the curve. If someone asked me for notes I would give them to them but I wouldn't make them public.