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Agreed that one Should check with professors before recording. A quick email is all it takes. As for equipment, instead of a dedicated recorder you can use a stereo condenser mic for your iPhone/iPod Touch called Mikey (by Blue Microphones). Or the Samson Go mic is exceptional for laptops. I've been impressed by the audio quality of the samson mic. It's even decent for recording musical instruments.

This is a little late, but hopefully adds something to the conversation. I see lectures as an information retrieval and encoding problem and recorded audio can be a useful resource if used properly. I record lectures, and rarely listen to them but if for some reason my notes are vague (feeling sleepy, space out), it's nice to have the recording to help clarify things. I use Notebook which timestamps all of my notes and allows me to navigate to exactly the time in the recording when the words were typed. It's pretty handy. I think some other apps do that. I know that the Livescribe pen does. Also, if I get confused in lecture I can simply write "confused". Then I can go back to that section and listen over and over to help my understanding. I'm not as quick as some people in class, so hearing something once is sometimes not enough. That being said, I definitely want to bump up my note taking skills too.

I've downloaded Papers 2, but I can't find how to annotate papers. Is that a feature? Thanks!

Don't know if this has been answered definitely yet, but here's what I found. I just talked with USPS and if you ship via "click and ship" you can specify that a package should be held. They will hold it for 14 days max. I think this is what I'm going to do. Good luck!

Hey everyone. I'm looking forward to studying with you at Princeton! I'm in the NGC.