While it is important to be a good listener and participant in class, you also need to master the art of taking good notes so that later you can refer back to them. Note-taking is a process that some find tedious, while others find to be barely an effort. Finding a system that works for you is an important task that will make the rest of your student life easier. As your workload becomes greater and the content of what you learn more sophisticated, so must your notes reflect that growth in your learning.