What do you do with your old notes?

[mellsworth21]

Just wondering cause I've came to the point where either I need to seriously do some organizing or throw them out.

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[LifetimeDoc]

I NEVER look at my notes EVER again, unless for nostalgic purposes. Throw them away, or dump them in a recycling bin. If you ever need to relearn something, pickup a review book.

 

[KnuxNole]

Sell them

 

[chad5871]

I always throw them away. I used to keep them, but then I realized I never looked at them again...

 

[mellsworth21]

Yea, I think I will throw them away. I thought about selling them on Ebay, than I realized there pretty crappy.

 

[fireflygirl]

Yeah I tried going year to year carrying my notes with me but unfortunately, they just take up too much space. And frankly, I never look at them again. So I'm going to carry them in chunks to work and throw them in the recycling bin.

 

[MilkmanAl]

I'm keeping them, especially the physics ones. I go back and look at those occasionally. I only have 10-ish notebooks' worth of notes, so it's no a hassle to keep them around.

 

[LifetimeDoc]

 

[91Bravo]

For the love of God, get rid of them!

 

[Quix]

 

[redlight]

I always throw them away. I used to keep them, but then I realized I never looked at them again...

ditto

 

[chunglee]

i usually shred mine so no one else can use em

 

[Carlin]

I keep my chem ones, since I'm a chem major. But anything that I don't think I'll need for reference, I recycle.

 

[Mayday]

If it's something I'll need to review for the mcat, I keep them in a notebook on my bookshelf. If I don't, they go in the garbage.

 

[anomalous738232]

that's something a group of my friends and I have been doing since soph year in high school. a lot of them are in community college now, but we still meet up at the end of the qtr to burn all our stuff. it's a great feeling =)

 

[secants]

Didn't really take traditional notes once I got into college since all Lectures are power points/PDF files, so I just archive them on my computer even though I know I won't look back at them.

 

[justapremed]

i'm such a pack rat. but such memories!

but my room back home is starting to really stack up with just notebooks and papers of notes. i guess it's about time.... next summer i'll get rid of some

 

[DocSoMa]

I keep text books, throw out notes. My handwriting keeps evolving and I can't read most of my notes from a few years back. It's weird.

 

[Climberak]

I keep text books, throw out notes. My handwriting keeps evolving and I can't read most of my notes from a few years back. It's weird.

Ahh the true signs of a doctor.

 

[dilzmega]

I keep text books, throw out notes. My handwriting keeps evolving and I can't read most of my notes from a few years back. It's weird.

My hadwriting sucks fish!!! so I keep textbooks and give notes to underclassman sort of like passing the torch (if they could read them) but thats what I do unless its a lab book I have loads of those to refer back too.

 

[LikeClockWork]

I can never throw my notes away immediately after a class has ended because I feel like I put such effort into making them that they must be worth more than just trash now. Of course, when I find them again 6mo - 1 yr later I usually flip through them for nostalgic purposes then dump them. Kind of a delayed recycling thing.

 

[DoctorDreamer]

Well, I teach and tutor a lot, so I keep everything relative to my major fields of study, but I throw out the random class stuff from those I was made to take.

With the ones I keep, I gather all class materials together really nicely (normally typed), and I have a cover sheet made, and I get them bound for like $0.30.