Should I sell this stuff?

[muffinman23]

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Hi everyone,

I have a few textbooks from classes I just finished taking- gen chem and physics. I was wondering if it would be all right for me to sell my textbooks now or if I should keep them until after I took orgo and my MCAT. Do people usually refer back to their textbooks when studying for their MCAT or are review books the way to go?

Thanks in advance

 

[BlueElmo]

I never referred back. All you need to know is in the prep books.

 

[red10]

sell em. keep your notes at most. most prep books have all you need

 

[Food]

Keep them if you have weak fundamentals. Many times you will read prep books and find that you don't understand a particular concept and it helps having a textbook to refer to. But, if you're confident in your fundamentals then you'll do fine without the textbooks.

 

[ArkansasRanger]

Sell that junk!

 

[sportsfreak]

sell them, very unlikely ull need them for MCATs, but even if u end up needing to go over a topic u could always go to the library

 

[Global Warming]

Call me wierd...but I kept mine for sentimental value. It would be nice one day to look back and laugh at how I "stressed" over such easy material. Also, if one day I become successful, it would be nice to be able to look back and think about my humble days....

 

[DrYoda]

Sell, Sell, Sell! Before they become worthless!

 

[phungy]

Sell it for teh luls.

 

[Food]

Sell it for teh luls.

lolcat

 

[Van Chowder]

Im keeping mine, yea pretty much for sentimental value.. plus it would be tough to find a page I did not write/doodle on. 🙄

 

[schrizto]

It would be nice one day to look back and laugh at how I "stressed" over such easy material.

lol that reminds me of the punishment my parents gave me when I was a little kid:

"You've been bad, now sit in the corner and count to 100!"
"NOOOOOOOO!" (at that age it seemed like forever)

I can't believe I use to stress about fractions and negative numbers. Calculus, on the other hand, will probably never seem so simple.

 

[Ignition]

Here's how I deal with old textbooks:

Get an A in the class: Smile and keep it. Give it to friends and reminisce with anecdotal of the joys associated with the class.

Get a B in the class: Sell it as quickly as possible and move on.

Get anything lower than a B: Invite your friends out to a bonfire with tons of beer and toss the books into the fire, cursing the professor, TA's, tutors, registrar, cooks, and anyone else remotely associated with the class. Relieve self on fire for xtra lols.

Then when you go over your transcript while filling out the course work for AMCAS, you can remember (hopefully) the joys of the bonfire rather than the torture of the class itself.

 

[lstone13]

Hi everyone,

I have a few textbooks from classes I just finished taking- gen chem and physics. I was wondering if it would be all right for me to sell my textbooks now or if I should keep them until after I took orgo and my MCAT. Do people usually refer back to their textbooks when studying for their MCAT or are review books the way to go?

Thanks in advance

I saved my textbooks and it was a big mistake! I never referred back, and now, I can't sell them back because newer editions have come out. Think about it this way, even if you do need to refer back to the subject, the internet is such a great resource that there will be virtually no need for those particular textbooks again.

 

[zayka]

Here's how I deal with old textbooks:

Get an A in the class: Smile and keep it. Give it to friends and reminisce with anecdotal of the joys associated with the class.

Get a B in the class: Sell it as quickly as possible and move on.

Get anything lower than a B: Invite your friends out to a bonfire with tons of beer and toss the books into the fire, cursing the professor, TA's, tutors, registrar, cooks, and anyone else remotely associated with the class. Relieve self on fire for xtra lols.

Then when you go over your transcript while filling out the course work for AMCAS, you can remember (hopefully) the joys of the bonfire rather than the torture of the class itself.

👍. Yeah, there definitely seems to be a lot more sentimental value to books from courses you did well on!

To OP, you can just refer to the review books. They will have almost everything that can be asked and you no longer need to know the science at a level as high as in courses.

I have not sold any of my books actually. I guess I'm a packrat lol. Besides, a big library of science/medical stuff will make me seem smart to visitors 😉. I like books too...