Do I need to keep my high school notes/textbooks/etc ?
 

hey,

I was cleaning my room and noticed I still had most of my notes/stuff from my old classes in high school...Is there even any purpose for me to keep ? Will it even be handy at all in college [even for review] ?
My only other idea was to just put some of it on ebay and see if any underclassman want to buy my old notebooks and tests off of me :D


thanks,
keyshawn

I would say keep the ones to do with the subject you're studying at college. You never know if they'll be useful. But throw the others out.. or you could try your luck selling them.

I threw all mine out and after 2 years of college havent had any need to regret that. Just go to your old highschool parkinglot after school one day and start yelling " old tests only 5 dollars, get em' while their hot!" :D

I agree with Gopher keep stuff on what you plan to study and lose the rest. Texted books are always good to keep for reference and you never know what you need to refer back to. Even some maths or geography could come in handy in a fews years doing whatever you are doing.

It doesn't hurt. Might come in handy.



Besides, after college graduation all of those papers you've saved up will make an awesome bonfire :D

After 3 years of holding onto a lot of my old high school notes, homework, and other stuff like that I finally trashed it. I havent looked at it since I filed it away 3+ years ago. When I have needed help in college, there always seems to be other means for attaining it or it has nothing to do with what I studied in high school.

Odds are your notes won't come in handy. Grab a beer, invite a few mates over with their notes, and burn the lot. You might get a few bucks for the old tests, but then your school might get a bit miffed about it, too.

But if you have any good, well-written and comprehensive textbooks on any topic, and you don't need the cash from selling them, I'd recommend holding on to them. You never know when you might need to look something up. I've still got my old Physics and Calculus books on my shelf, and every couple of months there's something I want to check up on. That, and it makes you look smart.

I kept all my books from HS to college for some reason....

recently got tossed out when cleaning how... never used them in 15 years at least...

I didn't get any books in High School other than novels and such, and those actually came in handy in classes where we read the same books. As far as notes, I saved the ones from classes that I was interested in and probably won't take again in college, but all the rest I chucked after a year or so. I held onto my math notes the longest, but precalculus doesn't help you much with calc 3 stuff - you know it all in your head already, or else you're sunk.

They are a waste of space. Throw them out.

I keep any textbook I can get my hands on. I don't have too many from highschool (a biology book, a spanish book and several english literature books), but I've kept quite a few college textbooks.

Don't know why, I haven't cracked hardly any of them since that class. I guess I have a problem.

I imagine if I had nice, well organized notes, I would have kept them as well, but my notetaking has always been this side of chaotic, so a lot of my old notebooks and assorted scraps of paper haven't survived over the years. I do however, have a digital copy of nearly every paper I've ever written. Does that count?

As a current college Junior, I agree. Unless you're taking a class over from high school for some odd reason (maybe if you took some spanish in high school but need to take more in college or something) then you could keep them, or if you were taking a class very similar to a high school one and were planning on skipping a lot of lectures. But really, neither I nor anyone I know has ever felt a desire to look at high school notes.

Oh, another thing: It's not often worth keeping your old stuff from high school, but once you're at college, all bets are off. Lecturers are often too lazy to change assignments and tests from one year to the next, so old test papers and assignment solutions are highly sought-after. You can probably sell them to your juniors on the sly, or there might be a trade in them going on around your dorm/frat (I don't know how those things work in the States). Also, a good set of notes for something like Law fetches a good price over here. I recently saw a laptop that wasn't worth more than $200 sell for $400 because its hard drive housed a good set of notes for four years of law.

Throw them out. Hell, I'm a senior and still using the same notebook from my first semester of my freshman year. Notes are overrated.

Keep them if there's a chance you may be a teacher someday.

I would say keep some of your notes since it could be funny in 20 years when you want to "remember the past" ;)
But you probably won`t need them for your college studies

They can be helpful. We have to do some statistical analysis in one of my classes, and I'd completely forgotten how to calculate a Z score since highschool. However, I didn't have my notes, and no one else remembered either so the prof did a refresher for us. :D

I kept some of my biology notes thinking that they'd be useful, but most professors give tests off of their notes (rather than the book), so it was pretty useless. I'd say keep your English books, b/c you never know if you might use them again, or want to read them again. As for notes, keep only the stuff you have from kindergarten (you learn most of the important stuff then, anyway).

They are only good as doorstops and for a laugh.

Chuck 'em

I never took any notes in high school.

But I do have all of my notes from navy tech schools (except the classified ones) and all of my notes and text books from college.

Keep the subjects you were interested in. Give the books to someone taking those classes or to the library.

Never, never throw away a book. That's worse that raping a black cat on friday the 13th on top of a broken mirror.

I threw all mine out...the only ones I missed were my chem notes... and that was really only because I waited a semester to take college chem, and I'd forgotten a lot of formula-type stuff.

Yeah, from other people, keep them if you're going to study that subject.
Like, I've kept all my History notes just for kicks and love of History. But in College, I'm keeping all my Computer Programming books/notes - that being my major.

Also, if you took classes like Physics or Calculus and High School and did NOT take the AP Test to get out of re-taking them in college, keep your notes there, will help a ton. Plus, you can spend more time in class paying attention than taking notes.

k, thanks for all of the input.

it gave me some entreprenurial spirit to sell some of the books to some underclassmen......

You got to keep your high school books? We had to fill out book loan cards and give tehm back at the end of each year. I still have most of mine, but I'm not supposed to

Same deal here except that I didn't keep any of them books because they sucked so bad. Well I might have stolen one or two. As far as notebooks... hmm, that just depends on how good you took notes! :thumbsup:

Amen to that!

C'mon people!!! Don't throw them out...recycle!

OR BURN THEM! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

/says the guy who still has stuff from elementary school

The books are no good. Toss 'em. Keep your notes to look at in a few years for fun. They have no other use.