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I'm keeping my Pharmaceutical Calculations book. A pharmacist does calculations every moment of the job and a misplace zero or calculation could kill someone. I figure that a resource for practice and reference would be best.
I probably won't keep most of my foundation course textbooks (anatomy, communications, et. Al.) since I doubt I'll revisit them in the future. I don't know what I'll do for P2 and P3 years.
I suppose the main rubric I'm using when choosing which pharmacy textbooks to keep involves the level of usefulness that book has in a true pharmacy setting.
I probably won't keep most of my foundation course textbooks (anatomy, communications, et. Al.) since I doubt I'll revisit them in the future. I don't know what I'll do for P2 and P3 years.
I suppose the main rubric I'm using when choosing which pharmacy textbooks to keep involves the level of usefulness that book has in a true pharmacy setting.
I was told by each of my professor's last semester that it was strongly encouraged to save the textbook for their class. As though each professor thought his or her textbook would be the most vital thing to keep. 
Well I looked at it really hard and decided last semester to not keep any. One reason for it was really simple though, it was about 10 days before Christmas and I needed money. 
And what it came down to also is that I didn't think that those particular books would help to keep them. I had 2 comp books, an algebra book, a sociology book and a huge cell bio book. Got $450 back for them so it was well worth it to me to sell them back to the school. In the future however I may keep books, it really depends. I think the actual pharmacy books would actually be more worthwhile to keep then would stuff on chemistry, biology, etc.
I'd make your decisions based on each class and each book and how you personally feel about it. Who knows, you might come across a book that lays things out really easily for you and you might want it for future reference.
Well I looked at it really hard and decided last semester to not keep any. One reason for it was really simple though, it was about 10 days before Christmas and I needed money. And what it came down to also is that I didn't think that those particular books would help to keep them. I had 2 comp books, an algebra book, a sociology book and a huge cell bio book. Got $450 back for them so it was well worth it to me to sell them back to the school. In the future however I may keep books, it really depends. I think the actual pharmacy books would actually be more worthwhile to keep then would stuff on chemistry, biology, etc. I'd make your decisions based on each class and each book and how you personally feel about it. Who knows, you might come across a book that lays things out really easily for you and you might want it for future reference.
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I kept my Bio, Chem, and O.Chem books. The chem one has been helpful a few times when I needed to look something up for upper division classes, but probably not worth keeping. I think it really depends on the kind of notes you take. Textbooks do offer a lot of problems for PCAT practice.
My verdict: take good bio notes and re-sell that one. Only keep Chem and O.chem if you want the practice, but you could most likely get around not keeping them.
My verdict: take good bio notes and re-sell that one. Only keep Chem and O.chem if you want the practice, but you could most likely get around not keeping them.
Whoops! I didn't realize that you were talking about your pre-pharmacy books. I have issues with common sense sometimes.😳
I'd keep the PCAT-relevant books and the books for your major that may be of use in advanced courses. For pharmacy school, I can't think of an undergrad book that has been useful now.
I'd keep the PCAT-relevant books and the books for your major that may be of use in advanced courses. For pharmacy school, I can't think of an undergrad book that has been useful now.
Gen Chem, Ochem, Physio/anatomy,biochem
I kept my Gen Chem, Ochem, and Biology books. I'm going to keep my anat/physio, biochem, and physics (maybe not?) books.
Partially because they changed editions on me and no one wanted to buy the older edition - - and partially because I want a bookshelf full of random reference books to look like I actually look things up and am somewhat smart xD
Partially because they changed editions on me and no one wanted to buy the older edition - - and partially because I want a bookshelf full of random reference books to look like I actually look things up and am somewhat smart xD
I sold all of my books, and never really thought once "oh, I should have kept that, it would be really useful"
Chances are, if there is a past topic that you need to review, I have found that more often than not it is reviewed in the book you are using for the class (like types of reactions in Biochem). Its not as in depth, but if you actually learned it the first time, their little summaries will awaken your memories of the subject.
Once you get into pharmacy school, certain books are good to keep, but I will still plan to sell most of mine (considering I havn't gotten to anything worth keeping yet).
Chances are, if there is a past topic that you need to review, I have found that more often than not it is reviewed in the book you are using for the class (like types of reactions in Biochem). Its not as in depth, but if you actually learned it the first time, their little summaries will awaken your memories of the subject.
Once you get into pharmacy school, certain books are good to keep, but I will still plan to sell most of mine (considering I havn't gotten to anything worth keeping yet).
you can sell your lab books? we write on ours and turn them in. What a waste of money >:[
I am saving my pchem book - apparently it's the one a lot of pharm schools actually use. It's the blue Chang book.
I also saved my ochem book - proved useful because I ended up TAing for a course for a year so I really needed it. I also reference my biochem book sometimes for my research and other classes - like when I was taking genetics there was a lot of biochem stuff in that class.
I actually save all my books - call me crazy but I usually study so much that by the time the course ends - I grow acustomed to those books 😍and can't imagine giving them up.
