{"id":7745,"date":"2018-03-07T19:46:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T01:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:50:37","slug":"take-handwritten-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7745","title":{"rendered":"TAKE HANDWRITTEN NOTES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adam Sorenson graduated number one in 2017 from the University of Virginia law school.\u00a0 Here is his secret for getting stellar grades:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I can tell you what worked for me, but it comes with the caveat that I know plenty of brilliant and successful people who had completely different approaches. I preferred handwriting my class notes because it helped me retain the information. I made my own study materials rather than use other people\u2019s outlines or hornbooks because it was the process of distilling my class notes, not the end product itself, that I found useful. And I tried to write short exams because I am a terribly slow typist and I found that communicating good arguments clearly was more important than packing in every attenuated bit of analysis I could think of.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rest is here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.law.virginia.edu\/news\/201710\/how-he-did-it-2017-grad-highest-gpa-shares-his-secrets\">https:\/\/content.law.virginia.edu\/news\/201710\/how-he-did-it-2017-grad-highest-gpa-shares-his-secrets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Sorenson graduated number one in 2017 from the University of Virginia law school.\u00a0 Here is his secret for getting stellar grades: &#8220;I can tell you what worked for me, but it comes with the caveat that I know plenty of brilliant and successful people who had completely different approaches. I preferred handwriting my class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learningeducation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}