<p>Okay, so, REALLY, do you EVER even look at your old HS papers, text books, notebooks? I'm going through all of my stuff, and I'm just trying to figure out what I really should keep, and what I can honestly trash. </p>
<p>How much did you guys actually use???</p>
<p>Of all my HS stuff, I only intend to take stuff from my AP Calculus class, since I have to take it again in college.</p>
<p>Otherwise, the rest is to be incinerated...:D</p>
<p>no but keep all your awards, hw newspapers, and like 5-10 tests/quizzes from each class, and 5-10 homework assignments from each class for memories. notes, etc can go. and I dont know why you'd have any textbooks. in high school you're suppose to give them back.</p>
<p>I went to a private HS where we bought our books.</p>
<p>But did you ever actually look at or find it useful to have 5-10 tests/quizes and homework assaignments from each class? Other than just for memories?</p>
<p>Yeah.. I just have some random homework papers/quizzes/tests.. Also, I have some papers from our school newspaper. Memories... It's really nostalgic for me to look back on old middle school stuff.. I only wish I had kept more stuff from middle/elementary school.</p>
<p>I'm thinking of bringing some textbooks from my AP classes because we used college textbooks. Those books might actually come in handy, but I don't think I'm going to bring notes or tests. If you feel like your teachers will be supportive you might want to bring their e-mail addresses; I think those are going to be one of my most important lifelines I can have during my first year in college.</p>
<p>I always think that I'm going to look at my old notes, but I never do, so I've taken to throwing (reycling) everything out.</p>
<p>To add to what equine99 asked, do you actually need to keep stuff that you've written in your english class. Because ever since 6th grade, my teachers have been telling me that you have to keep all those essays and things that you write in English class because colleges want to see them. Is that true?</p>
<p>Why would colleges want to see essays you wrote in 6th grade?</p>
<p>I don't know why colleges would want to see that. I don't know why they would want to see any of my essays. My chemistry teacher even told me to keep my chem labs because colleges would want evidence of the class including labs. This whole thing makes no sense to me at all...</p>
<p>That's weird. I never kept anything I did in class, and you shouldn't have to either.</p>
<p>I kept everything from high school, mainly for my younger brother as a reference for his homework.</p>
<p>I haven't looked back to anything from high school.... I think it's really only AP and science/math classes are probably worth it because you might find using your high school method easier and it's easier for things to come back to you because you spent countless hours looking at those papers... dunno. Never kept any of my math notes.</p>
<p>As for English essays, I've always, always kept them- since elementary school! Your English teachers just want you to keep your writing so you can look back and see how you've improved over time- maturity, language sophisication, etc. I look back in my portfolios every couple years and can not believe that I wrote that stuff! Your essays won't be of any use in college so just keep them in your memories box. Writing is something that we hold on to throughout our academic lives, we don't hold onto American history, alegbra, chemistry... when we get to college, depending on our interests. Writing is part of who we are- your essays reflect how you have changed over time in terms of personality and voice. Chemistry problem sets and history tests can't tell you that- they don't say anything about what you were like and how you thought when you were 10!</p>
<p>I disagree. I have great notes from English classes that I could very easily see myself incorporating into a college essay.</p>
<p>I don't know because you went to private school. But for the most part, I never needed notes, etc from high school. Just keep 5-10 quizzes/tests and homeworks from each class for memories, not for future reference.</p>
<p>if the classes you took in HS were high enough level and covered the same stuff, then your notes can be useful.</p>
<p>otherwise, unlikely.</p>
<p>I took my old notes from AP Biology and AP Calculus (because I knew that I'd be taking higher-level math and higher-level biology courses), and I did end up using both of them for reference. I've got my papers saved at home for sentimental reasons, and I think that I've tossed all of my old tests. As for notes from other classes, they're mostly saved at home, and if I take a class that'll build off of what I learned in high school, I might take the notes back to school with me the semester that I'm taking the class.</p>
<p>I keep everything, but then I'm a pack rat.</p>
<p>I have all my old school papers/assignments in two file boxes...this includes everything from science research I did in high school, plus a bunch of ap notes/tests and all that stuff. I doubt I'll look at most of it, but I know that at least some of the notes/papers I have written will have to come in handy for me sometime, thats some quality work I did. and I definitely know that kids taking AP chem or english in my school this year will pay the big bucks for some of my old papers/tests...not that I would do that...</p>
<p>hm. I kept some old Spanish notes. there's things in there that I just couldn't throw out, like a packet full of idiomatic expressions. and since I actually am continuing mi estudio de espa</p>