I don't remember (or did miss the post(s) ) if you talked about this before, but do you do this for a special purpose, or "just" to broaden your lingual knowledge? I think it's awesome anyway. Good luck with the learning!
At some time I wanted to learn GSL as well, just out of curiosity and to broaden my lingual knowledge, but the opportunity never arose.
But I'm surprised you're not provided with a usable system for note-taking. Isn't this a problem most of the class/theses classes would face?

(BTW, sorry that I have been so negligent with comment answering of late... busybusybusy doesn't even begin to describe it... *sigh*)