I am a sophomore in college and I have at least five to seven notebooks full of information. Honestly, these notes mean a lot more than just notes. I am basing my career off of these notes. I will continue to do so throughout the rest of my undergraduate years and throughout medical school. I HEAVILY rely on my notes for tests and future classes. I do not know where I would be without my notes. The question in turn here is, if I or any college student should get paid for all of my notes that one takes.

Now, I know I probably would not get a large sum of money. I am simply saying that maybe if students were paid a certain amount of money for taking notes, it would encourage more students to take notes. In turn, if more students take more notes, it could possible raise quiz and tests grades. For the people that already do take notes, it would keep them from straying to stop taking notes. It is also something that could make more students go to school. The amount of absences would go down...like a very large decrease in the amount of absences.

I really think that this idea is reasonable. I am not saying that we should just get paid for taking a page of notes. I think there should be a minimum for the amount of notes to take for a certain amount of money. Let's say a student takes five pages of notes, they could get five dollars. And maybe the money does not have to be actual money. Maybe it could be a book voucher or even a gift certificate to some place. Thus, the notes could be turned in at the end of a month or semester (so the students can study, obviously).

Of course, this is just my opinion. It is probably a controversial topic somewhere. I wanted to shed some light on how much of a difference it could make. I know it is kind of sad that money would be a motivation to taking notes, but if students do better on tests and quizzes, then the outcome would be pretty good. It would be worth it in the end.