i literally never took notes throughout the entirety of my formal education process so whilst you probably shouldn't do what i did it's pretty possible to have postgrad qualifications without being a 'good' student. idk, i just couldn't be bothered to write shit that seemed pretty self-evident from inference personally.
the US MIC has been jerking itself raw to ODS for 30 years now and they still think that high tech wunderwaffen are how peer wars are won because (?)