Do you keep your school binders?

[NerdyKnitter, CNA]

I have kept my general and organic chemistry binders on the advice of a few students. I have used the gen. chem. binder once, but I'm sure google would have served just as well. Do you keep yours? I'm not much of a pack rat, so I'm tempted to toss the paper and reuse the actual binder for other things. If there is a good reason to keep them, please share! Thank you.

[verene, MSN]

I did not keep notes from most of my pre-req course work. I did keep my A&P packets and text book and am glad I did so. Those have been useful to me in nursing school to review normal anatomy and physiology.

[NICUismylife, ADN, BSN, RN]

I don't keep my binders. I didn't retain any of my lab manuals, homework, powerpoints, syllabi, etc. In fact, one of the first things I do at the end of each semester is happily throw all of that crap in the trash! lol. However, I rewrite all powerpoints, lecture notes, etc. in spiral notebooks (writing is how I learn best), and I have kept all of those. I have about a dozen and I just can't get rid of them.

[NerdyKnitter, CNA]

Thank you guys for sharing! I had to take an algebra class before chem and I remember coming home from the final and walking straight to the recycle bin to dump all that crap, lol! I loved general chemistry and wanted to hang on to that one. I think it's time to let it all go.

I will definitely keep my A&P slides and book through nursing school.

[InfirmiereMaybe, BSN, RN]

I've kept my notes and slides from pharmacology and will be doing to the same for AP.

[ItsThatJenGirl, CNA]

I'm going to keep my A&P stuff, but that's it.

[nalie2, ADN, BSN, MSN, RN, NP]

I dumped all pre-req stuff, but have kept all nursing school papers just in case I need them for future classes or NCLEX. So far, I haven't had a need to look up anything from pre-req classes.

[Kuriin, BSN, RN]

I kept all of my notes through nursing school and I've been a RN almost a year. Never know when I'll want to look through them, lmao.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Kept the A&P, microbio and public speaking ones. Ditched the rest.

[Peepsimus, BSN, RN]

If I think I might want to reference my notes later or if it was just crazy interesting, I keep the spiral notebooks and textbook. From my first undergrad, there are still cognitive neurobiology notes and books that I've referenced in A&P and would definitely be useful if I wind up working in any capacity with neuro or the elderly or peds. I'm keeping A&P notes because they're my rewritten and illustrated notes withe the mnemonics and notes about which page of the book has the best diagram of the body part. I'm keeping my nursing textbooks. I'm not keeping the binders of printed out slides once I'm finished with everything. It's a couple of shelves on the bookcase, and not a big deal to have them on hand. One of my best friends is a hospitalist pediatrician, and she regularly pulls out textbooks to either reference something, check her knowledge while diagnosing something weird, or use them to explain something to parents.

[Buyer beware, BSN]

I don't have any binders but I do remember Mitt Romney saying he did.

[Username invalid, RN]

Dang, well call me Romney.

I kept all notes, homework, flashcards, written papers, & powerpoints for all of my science courses, + algebra (..but they're for my younger sister, soo... I over-saved).