Help, I'm a pack rat!

[wannabeaDO]

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I really feel uneasy throwing away all my college notes. I know I should do this but I think I need some encouragement.

You guys do throw away your college notes right? I mean, what am I going to do with my physics notes right? I mean I will probably run through them and make keep a selective few for souvenir. You think this is the right thing to do?

It's just the idea of all the work I put in will be thrown away. But I know for the sake of moving and space, this is what I should do.

 

[christina30]

Just dump them.

 

[DrBowtie]

I really feel uneasy throwing away all my college notes. I know I should do this but I think I need some encouragement.

You guys do throw away your college notes right? I mean, what am I going to do with my physics notes right? I mean I will probably run through them and make keep a selective few for souvenir. You think this is the right thing to do?

It's just the idea of all the work I put in will be thrown away. But I know for the sake of moving and space, this is what I should do.

Torch them. I'm having a sweet post boards bonfire with all of my M1/M2 stuff.

 

[wannabeaDO]

Torch them. I'm having a sweet post boards bonfire with all of my M1/M2 stuff.

Haha, did you get your score first before you did this or did you just did it right after boards?

 

[DrBowtie]

Haha, did you get your score first before you did this or did you just did it right after boards?

I'll do it right after I take them. I'm not referencing them ever.

 

[Poliscidoc]

I really feel uneasy throwing away all my college notes. I know I should do this but I think I need some encouragement.

You guys do throw away your college notes right? I mean, what am I going to do with my physics notes right? I mean I will probably run through them and make keep a selective few for souvenir. You think this is the right thing to do?

It's just the idea of all the work I put in will be thrown away. But I know for the sake of moving and space, this is what I should do.

Burn that **** and get over it..

 

[Wyclef]

My grandma told her kids to keep all of their books. Being poor, I sold mine back. The stuff I wasn't able to sell, i kept.

I have never cracked open a college book in all of med school, except my biochem book a little bit. Ochem and chem and physics books are worthless.

 

[ArkansasRanger]

I kept notes from physical geology, vert. paleontology, field biology, envrionmental biology, and vert. zoology. I assumed at some point in life I'd want to read back over them. It's been seven years, and I could care less now. Dump the trash.


I should note that I'm not much of a note taker so the above classes all fit into about two of those 70 page Mead spiral notebooks, and I'm sure they're not even full. I hate taking notes.

 

[Cheshyre]

I kept all of my books from undergrad. I'm now finding that they're worthless, and because the courses I took changed textbooks, I can't sell them either.

Dump what you don't need. Actually, recycle them and give the binders to Salvation Army. That should make you feel better.

 

[Daedra22]

I do my notes completely digitally, so I just keep all of the copies... hard drive space isn't exactly expensive. I've referenced them a couple times in the past, though they'll probably mostly-useless in med school. When I used to keep notes on paper I dumped them... I can never keep physical papers organized, and they're just cluttery.

 

[nardini46]

I burned my notes. Very satisfying.

 

[taylormade2006]

I do my notes completely digitally, so I just keep all of the copies... hard drive space isn't exactly expensive. I've referenced them a couple times in the past, though they'll probably mostly-useless in med school. When I used to keep notes on paper I dumped them... I can never keep physical papers organized, and they're just cluttery.

This is the only way I'd keep notes. Not only are paper notes cumbersome, but good luck actually finding anything in them if you wanted to reference something.

Besides, if you needed to reference something, you'd probably just google it anyways.

 

[GraceEuphoria]

I just took mine to be recycled last night. I had the same problem as you...I think once I got into med school (and last night particularly, pondered moving all those freaking binders to TN!) I decided it was time. Before that, I think I held on for nostalgia of accomplishments. Now it's time for bigger and better things. You can do it!! 🙂