<p>While at home for summer, I'm trying to go through the unnecessary amounts of work that I've kept over the years. I plan on keeping college work relating to my intended field, but I have papers from middle and high school that are cluttering my room at home. There were times that I have actually used notes from high school to help with college courses, but those were rare events. I understand that I'm in the minority and most people probably throw work away much more regularly. </p>
<p>Have you kept any of your old work for sentimental or other reasons? How do you decide what to save and what to get rid of?</p>
<p>I graduated from high school over 30 years ago, but I kept quite a few of my English papers and other tests. I’m glad I did! It’s been fun showing them to my kids. I was surprised that my val speech was not too bad, lol.</p>
<p>I’m going to be a freshman in college in a couple weeks. Right now, I still have all my papers from high school- assignments, tests, papers, class notes, all of it from every class.</p>
<p>Yes. I bet you anything there are still papers and work from 8th grade in my closet. And for no particular reason. I’m one of those people who likes to be able to go back and look at things from childhood, lol. Though I don’t know why I would think going back and looking at an old vocabulary test is so interesting.</p>
<p>I’ve always kept my old papers, and I never end up looking back on them. So this year, as I go off to be a freshman at UCI, I’m throwing them all out.</p>
<p>There might be A level folders sitting around somewhere, but I’ve never consulted them at uni.
Actually, I tell a lie - we did Gatsby again so I asked my mum to email me my A2 coursework on Gatsby. It was so flawed, I didn’t bother using it. (Although my teacher at the time said it was very impressive, lol)</p>
<p>All my GCSE crap (ages 13-15) I’ve thrown out.</p>
<p>I have all the last two years’ uni work. Seems foolish to throw it out at this stage. Most of it is my own research/essays.</p>
<p>There are things that I have thrown away that I really, really wish I kept by now (like old exams, etc.) but I really don’t like having large amount of paperwork hanging around. So instead of keeping the actual paper version around, I scan it and keep everything on a back-up hard drive. Less for nostalgia reasons; more in case some future institution wants to look at it.</p>
<p>I kept all the A papers I had from my two years at U of M. Threw out everything else. I had most of my papers still on my computer but I deleted my entire “school” folder when I graduated.</p>
<p>I actually accidentally deleted copies of assignments I’d already turned in for a class I was still in once, and then almost failed the class because my professor lost all my assignments and flatly refused to admit that I had turned them in. Eventually she found them. After that I was really scared to throw anything away for a while, even if the class was over…</p>
<p>I have kept little bits and pieces for sentimental reasons: projects that I put a lot of efforts in, pieces with particularly helpful feedback from the teacher, and my most embarrassing mistakes </p>
<p>I have never been tempted to refer to old notes for academic reasons. Up to this point I have always been able to find the piece of information I am looking for online. That might change once I hit graduate school.</p>
<p>Nope. I only keep work in classes that I took something from and actually liked. And for me in high school, that class was PreCalclulus. I still have my notes and exams. That class holds a special place in my heart because that was the class the transformed my hate for math to love and the class the contributed to me deciding to become a mathematics major. SO of course I kept my old school work. And surprisingly, the notes I kept has helped me in all 3 levels of Calculus, which to me is amazing. I never would’ve thought a high school course would contribute so much to my college career.</p>
<p>In general, I don’t think it’s a dumb idea. As you can see, certain classes in our life actually help us and we take something from it. Personally, I wouldn’t keep all my notes from every class I’ve taken (PreCalculus is the only class for which I have notes from HS), but certain classes are worth keeping notes.</p>
<p>I’ve kept everything from high school. I’ve gone through some huge changes in my 4 years and I really remember what each part of high school felt like when I go through all my old papers. It’s all different too. I get emotionally attached to inanimate objects ALL THE TIME. haha</p>
<p>I keep all of my major-related coursework as well as the textbooks/readers used for those individual courses. I graduated high school three years ago, and I still have all of my major-related AP coursework in addition to the textbooks/readers for each of those courses, since I always preferred to buy the textbooks for my AP courses, even as far back as high school!</p>
<p>I keep schoolwork that can be used as reference material. For example, I’m taking Spanish, so I kept all of my Spanish grammar, verb, idiom, and other notes that I can reference.</p>
<p>I also keep other schoolwork on the computer that I can’t part with because I worked too hard on it (large research projects, major PowerPoints, etc). </p>
<p>It’s not too much because I don’t like keeping a lot of things because it makes me feel cluttered, trapped, unorganized, and stuck in the past, but it’s enough so that I can go back and appreciate the work that I have done.</p>
<p>I kept some older drawings from elementary school, well my parents did.
My most distinguished piece of work was a nice drawing of a dead monkey in a cage…</p>
<p>Only subject that has convinced me to hold onto my notes was Calculus, because I know I’m going to need them if I ever take a math class again in the future.</p>
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