Here is what I would expect to find in your journals.

Your name.
Table of Contents (numbered pages)
Tell me what you've been doing.

Ideas (yours, on relevant subjects). 
Souvenirs (from class or private conversations).
Useful information: 
 eg:login, net transfer,
 unix:afs versus nfs versus W98
Problems: Statements, Solutions, Questions

Your first program assignment:
Description in the Journal
printed source file in a manila envelope
hand annotated <<<<------

Do you want to buy a spiral bound set of 
Classnotes?

These would contain

Introductory Lecture
Unix-Vi-reference material
Pocket programs
illiSkel programs

Lose leaves of tutorials.

And be assembled for sale at 
UpClose Copy Shop on Sixth Street.