School notes - keep or throw away?
 

Question ...

What did/do you do with all of your class notes once the class is over?? Roundfile/recycle/Burn them? or Keep them? for how long?

I've graduated now, but will soon be returning to school to continue my studies, and can't decide what, if any, notes I should keep from my undergrad program. I have 5 boxes and need to make some quick decisions.

Help! What did you do? ...

It was very common at my school for people to make bibles. Bibles ranged from just your lecture notes, to every piece of paper associated with a course, including problem sets, tests, and answer keys to same. You could then use these bibles as reference material later on if you took a course that built on the material, or you could lend them out to people taking that course in later semesters. Most living groups and GLOs had bible libraries; I donated a couple of bibles to my sorority.

its tradition for me to throw them away. i will not use them again. by the end of the semester, i am so sick of my notes.

You would have to be a cryptologist to decipher my notes; I just trash them I don’t think they would be of any use to anyone else.

I threw out most of them, but I did keep some that were especially intersting. For example, one of my western civ teachers (who, sadly, committment suicide shortly after retiring) created really easy-to-follow, yet very detailed outlines for each of his lectures. I've saved those, and I have gone back to them whenever I needed a history refresher! Keep the ones you think you'll need, then revisit in a year or two to see if you really do need them.

I've kept most of my notes from my Psych courses. Sometimes the material overlaps. I think I will be able to use those notes for grad school. I also kept my Psych textbooks for reference sake.

I kept all the notes and handouts from classes associated with my major. The rest got dumped out along the way.

I've kept only the notes from my photography classes. Being that I'm a photo major, I know I will find these notes useful in the future and I have alread. Everything else I chucked.

I kept all my chemistry and biology notes for future reference. I either got rid of the other class notes or I passed them to someone who was taking the same class.

I kept notes, particularly from my J-classes, for over 10 years.

i save mine! i saved my AP psych notes from high school, and thats all i used in my freshman psych class, i never went and got a B all thanks to my high school notes

I keep notes...if they are related to my major, sometimes I even keep the textbooks. I may never know when I need to look back at them in the future for some reason.

I only kept the notes from my majors. Now that I'm starting graduate school and some of the books that I read as an undergrad are on my program's required reading list, I'm happy that I kept them!

I burned my high school notes after graduation.

Munchkin03- I burned all my highschool notes too! :)

I only keep the notes I will use later in the teaching profession, just like my books :)

DA HA, why not give to the Chapter so that they can have a file on hand for a class that they maybe be taking?:(

If YU were smart enuff to pass, maybe it cqn be of help to someone else!

We used to keep files as Profs. usually gave the same test questions!:)

This especially true for tests!;)

I used to throw them away immediately after all my finals were over, but when I decided to go back to school, I kept them . I learned that sometimes the notes from one class can benefit you in a more challenging class or when the professor asks the students to recall what was taught in a previous class. I think students should keep their notes in a file and refer to them when necessary!

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I kept the notes of stuff from my major. I threw the rest of the notes out that weren't replated.

I had a teacher in high school that taught American history from using the book, and her college notes from when she took the class.:eek: :D

I've kept all my books but tossed all my notes.

What are you taking in graduate school?

I kept all of my notes from my journalism classes... but donated my other notebooks to my chapter. In our study room we have a huge case where sisters can leave their notebooks in the appropriate subject so that sisters can take them whenever they need them.

I donated them to my chapter's notes/test files. :)

I have a good amount of the notes from my Elem. Educ. classes saved, English class notes not so much. Mostly because I won't be using Chaucer or the likes so much as a Elem. teacher.
I usually kept papers that I wrote for classes a full semester after the class just in case...
If our chapter file was more in order and updated I would have donated...

After high school, I saved many of my old notebooks from my Spanish, Latin, AP bio and math classes just in case I'd need them in the future. I just graduated from college, and finally threw them away since I never used them and they were just taking up space in my room. I did keep notebooks and some text books from my major in case I needed to refer to them in the future. I donated some notebooks in my other classes to my chapter's files, but some of them were so illegible, I just tossed them.

I've kept a TON of my notes...and more so my projects. Especially since I'm a Public Relations major, it's nice to reflect back on projects and see how I can incorporate the stuff into new ideas.

If it concerns my major, I keep it.

I go through notes/handouts at the end of the semester and discard busywork but tend to keep everything else (unless I HATED the class, then it feels great tearing pages out...) In classes that I really liked (i.e. accounting) or classes that were way hard (math), I save almost everything. It's all sitting in my parent's garage right now...but when I graduate I have no idea what I'll do with it...maybe see if people at SC want the SC part and if people at ASU want that part, or even save it for if I get an MBA!

i am a pack rat, but believe it or not, i have actually tossed out most of my notes. after graduating from college, i tossed out almost everything from h.s. there were a few things that i wanted to save because they were origional stories, etc. from college, i kept only the notes from my major, in classes that related to my field of study. i also kept books from my major and minor, all of my literature books (i took lots of lit classes), and classes that were particularly interesting to me. i didn't really take notes in grad school, but i kept all of my books. i am trying to figure out how to organize notes and p.p. presentations from confrences i have gone to since starting in the real world!

i keep all my notes, minus the ones from the classes i hated, just in case i might need them when i start teaching.