M4 moving out for residency: saving notes?

[JustSomePreMed]

I feel like this is probably a silly question, but I wanted some outside input. I hand-wrote all my notes during M1 and M2, and as such have binders upon binders with hundreds if not thousands of pages of handwritten notes. I'm cleaning up for moving to my residency, and am in the process of throwing junk out. I can't imagine I would ever need these notes again, but it's slightly difficult to just throw out something you put so much work into.

Please, someone convince me I'm a ****** and I should throw them out.

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[dude1344]

what use will they be...

 

[inspirationmd]

Throw them put man. Guarantee you will not use them at all. You matched. Step 1 and 2 are done. They have served their purpose.

 

[link2swim06]

I feel like this is probably a silly question, but I wanted some outside input. I hand-wrote all my notes during M1 and M2, and as such have binders upon binders with hundreds if not thousands of pages of handwritten notes. I'm cleaning up for moving to my residency, and am in the process of throwing junk out. I can't imagine I would ever need these notes again, but it's slightly difficult to just throw out something you put so much work into.

Please, someone convince me I'm a ****** and I should throw them out.

Or better yet give them to incoming M1 or M2, they might find a use for them.

 

[MilkmanAl]

Or better yet give them to incoming M1 or M2, they might find a use for them.

I second this idea. You might as well try to help someone out with them, even if chances are high they'll get tossed anyway.

 

[MrBeauregard]

I feel like this is probably a silly question, but I wanted some outside input. I hand-wrote all my notes during M1 and M2, and as such have binders upon binders with hundreds if not thousands of pages of handwritten notes. I'm cleaning up for moving to my residency, and am in the process of throwing junk out. I can't imagine I would ever need these notes again, but it's slightly difficult to just throw out something you put so much work into.

Please, someone convince me I'm a ****** and I should throw them out.

What a strange phenomenon this is; the desire to save that which is no longer needed in any way, shape, or form. I do the same thing. I have a really tough time throwing out something I put so much work into. I would agree with the previous posts and donate them to an incoming M1/M2 (with the expressed condition that they not ever, ever throw them away, but rather continually pass them down for decades to come).

 

[Rothbard]

nm

 

[Cali2]

I was in the same situation, so I understand your dilemma on this one. So many binders of handwritten notes, representing *so* much effort. But with a big move, it just seemed crazy to end up hauling around so much stuff for something like nostalgia. As others have said, if you had any medical question in the future, you'd probably go to a current source, not go searching through endless old notes for an out of date answer. It was a bit painful to throw them out, but also satisfying to think about all the extra heavy moving boxes and storage space I had saved. Long and short of it - get rid of them!

Edit: I did break down and save my FA, just wasn't quite ready to let it go!

 

[protonate]

It can serve as a souvenir

 

[Oxer45]

I feel like this is probably a silly question, but I wanted some outside input. I hand-wrote all my notes during M1 and M2, and as such have binders upon binders with hundreds if not thousands of pages of handwritten notes. I'm cleaning up for moving to my residency, and am in the process of throwing junk out. I can't imagine I would ever need these notes again, but it's slightly difficult to just throw out something you put so much work into.

Please, someone convince me I'm a ****** and I should throw them out.

What if you become famous like Picasso? Then every page you wrote will be worth thousands. Throwing away those pages is just admitting you'll never amount to anything before you even began.

 

[235009]

the only thing i'm definitely going to save from the preclinical years is my FA. otherwise everything else is garbage. i've never looked at anything else throughout third year so i highly doubt any of it will be remotely useful come residency.

 

[Bojack Horseman]

Parents' attic FTW

 

[QuizzicalApe]

Burn them, do a war dance in the ashes

 

[Depakote]

You will not refer to them. If you need to look up some pre-clinical factoid, you'll try to find it on up-to-date or some other indexed site. You won't have the time to try to dig through piles and pages for something you vaguely remembered writing down a 3-4 years back.

Destroy them in the most enjoyable way possible.

 

[Oxer45]

You will not refer to them. If you need to look up some pre-clinical factoid, you'll try to find it on up-to-date or some other indexed site. You won't have the time to try to dig through piles and pages for something you vaguely remembered writing down a 3-4 years back.

Destroy them in the most enjoyable way possible.

On the interview trail, I met a student who said in her school, people burn their short white coat on an informal get together bonfire before graduation.

 

[Depakote]

On the interview trail, I met a student who said in her school, people burn their short white coat on an informal get together bonfire before graduation.

mine is currently sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic after a tearful burial at sea. :cry:

 

[MilkmanAl]

On the interview trail, I met a student who said in her school, people burn their short white coat on an informal get together bonfire before graduation.

I thought that was the norm.

 

[SlickNickMD]

The only real notes I have are in my step 1/first aid binder I'm gonna hold on to those as a keepsake

 

[Roguelyn]

Bonfire!!