I just killed a tree

[SunshineDaisy]

Or close to it. I went through almost a ream of paper to print out all my stuff I need for my classes this week!

[PatMac10,RN, RN]

Lolz! This is our saying at my school! We have murdered so many trees due to printing do many things for school. I always promised that's when I get out if school I would plant like 5 big trees in honor of all the ones I personally destroyed in School. Lolz!

[Abigail612]

I'm thinking its not, my parents gave it to me because I needed it for school I think it was one of wally world's $30 specials

[keoneal]

Same here! I just printed off a 100-page syllabus for my first class. Granted, it contains a lot of policies and procedures from the nursing handbook, but still. I feel like I need a binder for that alone.

[SunshineDaisy, ASN, RN]

Oh, I print my syllabi and take them to Office Max/Depot and have them bound for about $4! It's almost always in my back pack! The further I go it seems they get smaller. 1st semester was almost 200 pages! This semester they are both roughly 70-80 pages.

[keoneal]

That's not a bad idea! I'll definitely look into that. Glad to hear they get smaller, too.

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

If your eyes are still good, you can also print out those HUGE things "two per page"... double-sided, that means you get four pages of material on one sheet of paper.

At the very least, I typically reformat stuff that's able to be edited -- reduce the margins to the limits of the printer, reduce the font, turn off headers/footers, etc. My school's instructors just seem to always go with whatever the default settings are in Microsoft Word... for what we pay, you'd think they could put a LITTLE effort into it, at least!

I can usually get a 50-page document reformatted to 30-35 pages without substantially changing the font size (going from a 12pt to a 10pt, for example, so it's still extremely legible to the naked eye). If it's something that's largely administration-related and not something I'm going to need to actually read ever again (I don't cheat or plagiarize, so I don't need to refer back to the honor code, and I don't bring my kid or talk on my cell phone in class, so I don't need to refer back to the conduct guidelines, etc.), I'll go ahead and shrink that down to a 6pt or even a 4pt. The only stuff I really need are things like the schedule, required textbooks, grading rubrics, etc.