<p>I've collected a (more or less) massive pile of textbooks and review books from my high school years. I'm a senior now, but it just occurred to me that I might never been needing these ever again and they're just taking up space. Perhaps I should sell 'em. </p>
<p>So my question to you folks in college is ... do you ever find it necessary to reference your high school textbooks?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>No, that’s what college textbooks/the internet are for.</p>
<p>I just graduated this year too and I finished reading a textbook we didn’t finish in class, after being done with high school. It was a class from junior year.</p>
<p>I read them in high school…plus I didn’t get to keep them…my school was crazy cheap.</p>
<p>I didn’t keep mine either, but the one that I finished reading my sister still had laying around, since seniors finish finals 4 weeks before everyone else and graduate still 3 weeks before everyone else is done with finals.</p>
<p>You guys got to keep your textbooks?
Our school always had us return them before the school year ended.</p>
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No. See my last post.</p>
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Same.</p>
<p>We always returned ours, plus I’d never crack a book unless I was being tested on it.</p>
<p>No, because when I was in high school, we always had to return them once the semester was over.</p>
<p>I only have one of my high school textbooks, a Marine Biology one, and I only open it to look at all the weird notes my friends and I wrote it when we got bored in class.</p>
<p>I didn’t have a desire to look at my HS textbooks while I was in HS, let alone after…</p>
<p>We also had to give our textbooks back at the end of the school year.</p>
<p>However, I have saved all my notebooks, papers, and homework in case I ever want to look at them again. For sure I have needed my math stuff, because I started taking calculus in college after not having taken math for a year. This summer, I’m also planning on reviewing my chem and bio stuff, since next year I’ll be taking bio classes for the first time in three years.</p>
<p>But I know I’m in the minority on this. My mom is constantly pestering me to get rid of all my high school stuff, since it takes up about two bins in our basement. She would also probably not like it if she knew that I’m keeping all of my college textbooks, but that’s a secret for now. ^.^</p>
<p>I also would never keep my college textbooks because you can sell them AND write off buying them on your taxes. I must say I do like the extra $100 or so at the end of each semester.</p>
<p>No wth lol</p>
<p>I am a schoolwork pack rat. I have sold some of my textbooks from 7-12th grade. (I went to a private school, so we bought our textbooks from the local college bookstore… or if we got smart, from Amazon. XD) I don’t think high school students realize how much their textbooks cost. Junior year, I spent $600. I spent about $500 a year in 7th and 8th grade.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, I have to spend less than $100 for my first semester of college.</p>
<p>I have found it difficult to sell certain textbooks of mine, so I’ve just ended up keeping them. I also decided to keep all of my French textbooks, because I really want to review with them for concepts that I’m a little not sure on. They were really good textbooks.</p>
<p>But I’m weird like that and if you have a textbook that you can sell, I’d say sell it. I’m just partial to my French books, because I find them extremely helpful and I have notes written in them from my (wonderful) high school French teacher’s explanations over the years. I’m probably going to review them before starting back to school, because they put me in a 300 level French class and I am so, so, so nervous to take it. I really just don’t feel prepared for it.</p>
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Me too! I have all my stuff saved even since freshman year of HS.</p>
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Same here. Except I have 4 or 5 boxes full of that I think (including AP, SAT, ACT books and flashcards too, as well as HS binders and notebooks).</p>
<p>You BUY high school textbooks? Don’t most schools rent them out? That’s what mine does…</p>
<p>Oh wow your high school makes you buy your textbooks? That’s horrible.</p>
<p>Heheh, some of my classes in high school used college textbooks. The same college textbooks that I saw in 2 classes this year…</p>