College Programs for Macbook Pro

I am starting College in August and just bought a Macbook Pro for school. What are some programs that would benefit me greatly. I need a program for writing papers, and a program that would allow me to take notes while I am in class. Please give me any suggestions that you have. Thank you.

I used to take notes in outline form using OmniOutliner, though it wasn't always as easy as I felt it ought to be to use that for notes.  I've heard good things about Evernote, but haven't really used it, so I don't know if it would be appropriate.
For writing papers, if you're going to need to exchange files with folks, you probably need something compatible with MS Office.  If you're just going to type stuff up and print it and maybe every now and then give someone an electronic copy to look at, you could get by with something less MS Office compatible like Pages (which can still export to MS Word files but that support is not flawless).

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