Also mid 30s, just wrapped up an engineering Ph.D at a major state research university.  It wasn&#x27;t CS, but still quite technical.  Never once did I see classmates use laptops for taking notes.  Maybe it was just my department, but we were pen and paper all the way.  I&#x27;m a bit astonished that taking notes on a laptop is even a thing.  It seems incredibly distracting and ineffective.  How does one draw diagrams or write equations?