


“Back in Introductory Object Oriented Programming and Programming in C and C++, the lectures contained a lot of code snippets,” Vinson explains. So this year, he tried something new: note-taking in Evernote. One of the things that Vinson, a sophomore at Indiana’s Purdue University, learned during freshman year was that taking notes by hand wasn’t always effective. After all, Vinson is a native of Taiwan who grew up in California, and he just didn’t do snow. Another year of scribbling in notebooks, trying to copy diagrams properly and hoping beyond hope that he didn’t spill anything on his notes. That’s what Vinson Luo thought as he started his sophomore year as a computer science major.

You know what to expect, and the mistakes you made as a Freshman are, hopefully, behind you. You just know more once you’re a sophomore in college.
