Books, notebooks, etc.

[DrYo12]

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When you get to medical school, how much of the stuff you used in undergrad will actually be useful to you? I'm thinking there's a ton of notebooks and texts that I can get rid of (stop hauling around thinking that somehow I'll use it at some point) since I kept them to 'study for the MCAT' and didn't end up using them anyway.

Any suggestions? 👍

 

[lattimer13]

you can toss everything. i too was a pack rat for a while...then i just decided to toss it to save myself the time and energy of moving all that junk. you're just going to accumulate masses of more books and notebooks from med school anyways.

 

[ColoMD]

Agreed. Pitch it. They'll teach you what you need to know. Even notes from an advanced biochem course won't help you...the scope, depth, and context of the material is completely different.

 

[DrWuStar]

if you have good, solid textbooks in biochem, physiology, or cell bio, i would keep them. i got rid of all my undergrad books, then when i got to med school, the assigned cell bio book was the same one i had used in undergrad. that was annoying. even if that doesn't happen, they might be useful as resources.

all other books can go. and toss all notebooks. i promise you will never look at them again.

 

[lilmo]

throw it out. you'll accumulate 10x more crap in medical school anyways. the biochem book makes a great doorstop 🙂

 

[2112_rush]

Get rid of your old undergrad tests. Some of your old texts might be good to keep around to review basic concepts as they come up.

 

[fielight]

throw away everything and sell the books for money. the only texts i would keep would be those that you personally find useful or those that are written well (e.g., Alberts' Cell Bio, Lehninger's Principles of Biochem, because these are pretty comprehensive and Lehninger is one of those that they use again in med school). the notes/tests definitely need to go; you'll be getting syllabi that are 6" high (per class), so you don't need any more reading material.

 

[jonb12997]

I kept my "Molecular Biology of the CELL" book (you know, the silver one that costs like $150)... and also my A&P Biology Book (the one by Marieb that every college seems to use)... they were both good to have around while studying. Anything like notes or tests, or anything like that? get rid of them, med school studying is pretty much completely different than undergrad... at least IMO

 

[Lebesgue]

Here is my suggestion...