JGovender

Thanks everyone for your great feedback, it was very insightful.

In summary:
- It seems as though those individuals who have prepared hand-written notes have found that, while useful to a certain extent, there was generally not much time left to review these notes.
- Graphs were very helpful for the economics content.

I think nuppal's comment really struck a chord with me:
"I took notes without the real intention of using them, but more of a way to ensure I was actually reading and processing the material. "

I think that at the end of the day, this is probably my primary objective as well, as my eyes have a tendency to temporarily and miraculously go blind when reading a dry or complex piece of text. I hope none of you suffer from this. =)