Clearing out - store / keep uni notes?

Belfast_tech · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:14

Just been clearing out my room & I've discovered a lot of my space is being taken up with old uni notes, in several boxes of files etc...

I can't really bring myself to get rid of these... I don't know exactly why as I have not looked at them in the past 5 years but even still, it's a part of my life...

Anyone still have their uni (or indeed school, or any other course) notes years after finishing, and if so - where / how do you store them?

It's taking up too much room at the mo & the boxes look a bit unsightly!

Reed · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:16

Yea i generally keep hold of way too much stuff inc Uni notes and folders etc. Luckily our loft is a giant storage space so they are just kept up there out of the way

Phenomenologica · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:29

When I finished my GCSEs I burnt everything. When I finished my A levels I burnt everything. I fully intend to do the same at the end of uni. It's therapeutic.

Lethal` · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:47

Got most of my schoolwork still, although a lot is on hard drives like college. Haven't looked at any of it though, and I will most likely keep all uni notes as well.

Tephnos · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:53

I like to burn everything. Gives me satisfaction.

Glaucus · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:53

Depends if it's going to be useful to you or not.

Morgoth · 17 Jul 2011 at 19:58

I kept my undergrad notes, I still haven't looked at them and I'm almost finished my phd now.

semi-pro waster · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:00

I've kept my notes from uni at my parents and in fact I think I've still got quite a lot of notes from high school. I probably should get rid of some of them but they're stored in the attic and the space isn't currently needed for anything else.

Nitefly · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:03

I recently completed a course called the legal practice course - they told us to bring a large brief case to collect all the books. Me being a 'manly man' decided to take two rucksacks - worst idea ever.

There must be at least 80kg worth of books and notes that I was given on that course, currently taking up an extremely large chunk of my room in the biggest suitcase my family own... there is so much that the lid on the suitcase doesn't close :eek:

Waiting to be shoved in the attic, obviously

Tephnos · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:08

Morgoth said:
I kept my undergrad notes, I still haven't looked at them and I'm almost finished my phd now.

Curious, what's your PhD in?

alexakasloth · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:08

Notes went straight in the recycling when I moved out of uni accomodation - in fact I had a huge clear out of lots of things.

Dr House · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:11

I feel really bad about throwing my notes in the bin but I will probably not keep them.

I made 500 A4 pages of notes just for one exam :O

Beerbaron · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:12

Phenomenologica said:
When I finished my GCSEs I burnt everything. When I finished my A levels I burnt everything. I fully intend to do the same at the end of uni. It's therapeutic.

or you're a pyromaniac

RomanNose · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:15

Scan them?

dante6491 · 17 Jul 2011 at 20:16

I only just got rid of my A level stuff. Needed the room to be honest. Have eight draws in my desk and seven of them were full of notes :/ Nice to be able to put stuff away now.

box · 17 Jul 2011 at 22:11

Put an entire day or two aside and go through all of the them section by section deciding whether anything is worth keeping. A lot of mine were just illegible notes taken in lectures, which saw the bin pretty quickly. Others were colour-coded hand-written revision guides I'd written myself prior to exams. I scanned these into big PDFs on my laptop and then archived the hard copies in lever arch files. By the time I'd whittled down the rubbish, there really wasn't that much to store.

You'll never forgive yourself if you miss out on that one big opportunity because you didn't have your old undergrad notes to remind you of the basics!

Phenomenologica · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:10

Beerbaron said:
or you're a pyromaniac

What can I say, it runs in the family.

Nothing is quite as relaxing as converting a couple of years worth of work into a heap of carbon.

Amp34 · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:20

Gotta say i don't think I've ener thrown any educational notes away... I still have stuff from nursery! Luckily my parents have a lot of space... My masters stuff won't be thrown away either.

Pawnless Endgame · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:28

Scan them, then burn 'em while playing Firestarter by the Prodge.

panthro · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:53

None of my notes would ever have been useful to me, so I threw them away. I kept a few choice assignments, projects and my dissertation, but that was all.