the best listening i ever did in college was while destroying some tetris  the other option was taking obsessively perfect notes but absorbing nothing i opted for notes always bc i could go home and teach myself under pressure for hw or test studying   however the 1 class i chose for tetris i had a friend taking notes but i didnt need them bc for the first time in my life i was the one remembering every damn thing the teacher said thats one of the few classes where i still remember the things we learned almost like they were yesterday