How do you store your previous course notes?

[rock33y]

Hi,

I'm just wondering how people keep track of their past year's work. For example, where do you store your grade 12 notes (if you kept it), or undergraduate studies?

 

I'm finishing up grade 12 and currently bought six 2inch binders to store the six subjects. I thought I would do this for next year too, but wondered if there was another way? I used to use file folders by stapling each unit together, (similar to http://www.walmart.com/ip/Smead-Manila-100-percent-Recycled-File-Folders-Box-of-100/14931601?findingMethod=rr) but found it got messy when I needed to refer back to them.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[thatonekid]

I threw my notes away at the end of every year. The only thing I kept were papers that I wrote and that had comments on them. Anything I wanted to refer back to, it terms of content, is on the internet or in a textbook at the library.

[Mithril]

I threw away all my notes from high school, but I have eight notebooks stored in one of my drawers from eight terms of university. I also have an archive on my computer with any online notes. Having a digital collection is so much better than having papers everywhere.

[Cerena]

This summer I can't wait to burn my biochem note books.

Shows you how much I liked my degree...

 

My bf is much more practical. He has a big box filled with all of his binders and has no intention of burning anything.

[medhopeful64]

i take all my notes on computer (had a tablet) so everything is organized already But for paper notes (mainly lab write-ups, projects, assignments, etc), I just put it in either a folder or just wrap a paper around each term of university. Using binders is good in theory but then I find I run out of binders and just have to take out my notes to use the binder. labelled boxes or drawers sound good too!

[Leon]

 

 

The perfect way to end each term.

[PhoenixFlare500]

I kept all my notes stacked up on a bookshelf. I ended up throwing them away a couple years later anyways.

[Asta]

I have kept my notes for years. Now that I am writing the MCAT in a month, I don't need them any more. Once I get my marks (assuming they are good), I am going to burn everything!

 

A lot of my important stuff is on computer, and I plan on holding onto some of the flowcharts that I have made.

[Cerena]

I have kept my notes for years. Now that I am writing the MCAT in a month, I don't need them any more. Once I get my marks (assuming they are good), I am going to burn everything!

 

Atta girl

[psychoswim]

Mine all go into the recycling bin as soon as exams are over and I know I've passed. I kept my notes during my comp science undergrad for a couple of year since some might be useful during my masters, but they're all gone by now. I've kept some books that I find interesting even though I'm not in the same domain anymore, and I have all the assignments I did during university in folder on my laptop (the ones that were programming of course).

[thehumanmacbook]

Mine all go into the recycling bin as soon as exams are over and I know I've passed. I kept my notes during my comp science undergrad for a couple of year since some might be useful during my masters, but they're all gone by now. I've kept some books that I find interesting even though I'm not in the same domain anymore, and I have all the assignments I did during university in folder on my laptop (the ones that were programming of course).

 

I am trashing EVERYTHING once my UG is over. then roasting hot dogs over it.

[psychoswim]

I am trashing EVERYTHING once my UG is over. then roasting hot dogs over it.

 

Come on, everyone knows you'll be framing your MCAT books

[The Ace of Spades]

I 'stored' my notes in the dumpster behind my apartment.

 

Lab reports and stuff I keep archived on my computer.

[rock33y]

Thanks to everyone for your replies! I think I'm accumulating too many binders...

[Clever]

I place them neatly in the garbage after every semester.

[dentopia11]

i make paper planes, paper maches, oragami, and sometimes to clean a sudden spill to name a few uses...

[treejuice1]

I keep annotated lecture slides, along with graded tests and assignments in a big pile of clipboards and binders in the corner of my room... Probably to be tossed at the end of undergrad

[ChrisLorance]

I usually won’t keep my lecture notes for more than 2 years since they take up so much space. I do store the technical stuff and the important notes safely by using plastic pockets in a regular binder, making it easer to find them. I use to pass on the rest needless notes and books to someone else who is going to college.

[Asta]

I forgot to add, I have used lecture notes as gift wrap at christmas for the last few years.

[Emma15]

I just threw away (well...recycled) piles and piles of undergrad and high school notes. None came in handy when I was studying for the MCAT (just ordered some books and studied from them). Everything else is available on Wikipedia (probably more accurate and more up-to-date too)!

[anastasia]

all my notebooks are sitting on my bookshelf with my textbooks at the moment. that's probably where they'll stay until i find a better place for them. i don't know if i'll ever burn them.. then again, if i hate a class enough, i just might

[apache]

my notes from kindergarden to university are sitting scattered in boxes in my dads garage... i swear im not a hoarder