<p>You know how high school teachers kind of scared kids into keep everything? Yea, that's my closet right now. I have 3 shelves full of binders and AP review books and essay portfolios from a range of English, History, and Science classes.</p>
<p>I'm trying to clean the shelves out. I know I am keeping essay portfolios and my English notes, but I don't know what class notes to keep and which to toss? Or should I even be keeping them? I mean, I have a bunch of AP histories- I might need those in college. But my genetics, science technology, and sociology notes?</p>
<p>Any advice on what types of classes I should keep? If these notes are helpful?</p>
<p>sidenote: these binders are the peak of my extensive study habits. They are the collection of all my hardwork. These notes pretty much represent the hours and all nighters and study sessions I forced myself into.</p>
<p>sidenote: I am going to be an English Education/ Creative Writing major</p>
<p>I have the same issue…I find myself wanting to keep notes, returned tests and assignments and everything. I actually just went through a bunch of them and cleaned house a couple days ago. I’ve found that I basically never use any of them again. The only notes that I keep now are for math, physics and chemistry. I threw away a stack of old math/science assignments and handed back tests the other day, and I’ve told myself now that I’m not going to keep saving them. I’ll save everything until the semester ends…then clean house again.</p>
<p>I keep them all. I have 16 binders in the bottom of my bookshelf. They come in handy when I tutor high school kids. I can pull out old tests and assignments (which are sometimes the same ones as they have…) and work through them with them. My little brother also appreciates the notes.</p>
<p>Right before she started college in the fall, my daughter saved only those things she felt she would need to refer to - notes from calculus and from Italian - the others went into the recycling bin (no younger sibling).</p>
<p>I would keep things for your general education classes. It might depend on the school, but a lot of my gen ed classes were basically a review of a high school course. </p>
<p>I’d throw them away after you finish gen ed courses as I don’t think you really need notes for English ed/CW as much as you would for say, a biology or mathematics course.</p>