Would you give away a semester's worth of notes???

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hi everybody! looking for some opinions...

i'm taking a psych class this semester as a pre-req to nursing school. i'm also taking micro. well, one of the girls in my micro class asked me if--when the semester is over--she could have my notes from my psych class.

we're not by any means close. i just met her about (maybe) a month ago. we've studied together a couple of times but we're not great friends who hang out together or anything.

has anybody ever asked you to do this--give them your whole semester's worth of notes once your class is over???

when she first asked me i said, "sure". i figured, "what the h$ll do i care? i can't stand psych and i'll be glad when it's done."

but now i don't know. i'm starting to feel like i might be putting myself in a position of being used. already this person has asked me three times to see my micro class notes so she can write stuff down that she missed b/c she was late or whatever.

and at first i didn't mind, but then i started thinking--hey, get your own notes, or at least ask somebody else once in a while. she has a few friends in class, why always ask me???

am i overreacting and just being :devil: stingy:devil: in rethinking giving her my whole semester's worth of psych notes or is her request just over the line?????

sorry it's a bit long, guess i just needed to vent...:trout:

would you give this person your notes? :innerconf

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Maybe. It never hurts to be nice to people. You just don't want to be taken advantage of. You might share notes, for instance. Is she good at taking notes for some other class you might be weak in?

I started a webpage and put all my nursing notes on it for any classmate who wanted them, last time I went to school. The benefit for me was in retyping the notes. I learned the material a lot better, so sharing was most certainly not a problem and I made a lot of friends, too. They just thought I was the most generous person they knew. ;)

Eventually, a couple of other girls gave me their notes and I typed them into the website, so I had a lot of good material and passed with flying colors.

Oh, and I got a couple of really neat thank-you cards and stuff at graduation. It was really touching that some girls credited those notes with helping them pass (though you know all the notes in the world aren't going to help if you don't study).

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I personally wouldn't just give them away. I wouldn't mind loaning them out temporarily to be photocopied or whatever on a limited basis, but I could never part with them permanently. And if it's somebody who's just a user...the type that always asks for things for their own benefit but never pays it forward to others, I wouldn't feel comfortable constantly letting them ride my coat tails.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

I wouldn't. JMO.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

I wouldn't. I still refer back to some of my notes from nursing school.

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I wouldn't. If I spent the time to type/write it all out, why would I give that away to another person so they don't have to? Call it selfish if you wish.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
I wouldn't. If I spent the time to type/write it all out, why would I give that away to another person so they don't have to? Call it selfish if you wish.

i don't think that's selfish.

I think asking for someone's full semester of notes just to make it easier on myself would be selfish, though.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Infusion, peds, informatics.

i'm going to agree with medhead.

i wouldn't give them away, but i'd let her copy them.

why not? maybe it is just me, but copying someone else's notes, even if they are really good notes, in no way substitutes for going to class and taking your own notes. it will help me get by on occasion that i have to miss class for some reason, but i won't learn anything if i do it on a regular basis.

in my experience, those who depend on others' notes don't do very well in school. i'd let her use them. like angie said, it never hurts to be nice to people.

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Specializes in Tele, Cardiac Post Op, ER.

i agree with medhead and critterlover...

if you let her copy it, at least she will have it. but when it comes down to really comprehending the material, how will they really ever understand? i know if i were in that position, i wouldn't understand it.

good luck dealing with the mooching classmate.

i think everyone's been in this situation, but i believe it negatively impacts your grade when your not in class and not taking your own notes.

hb

i'm going to agree with medhead.

i wouldn't give them away, but i'd let her copy them.

why not? maybe it is just me, but copying someone else's notes, even if they are really good notes, in no way substitutes for going to class and taking your own notes. it will help me get by on occasion that i have to miss class for some reason, but i won't learn anything if i do it on a regular basis.

in my experience, those who depend on others' notes don't do very well in school. i'd let her use them. like angie said, it never hurts to be nice to people.

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I would SELL them to her...but give them away? Forget it.

Your time is worth something.

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I wouldn't. I don't have my psychology notes anymore, and I haven't needed them since I took the class. However, I am really weird about this stuff. I am probably the only individual on these boards that considers giving a semesters notes away cheating.

I feel like I work so hard to take notes, make every class, read ahead of time, etc. to truely understand the material , and I am just going to give all my hard work away to someone? No way! Instead I let it sit in my desk for a year until I say OK I don't need this anymore. Then I throw my notes away (and I always feel bad about it), and I hope that a bum finds them and gets educated enough to get a new job or possibly decide to go back to school! :lol2:

Aside from the fact that I think it is wrong, giving notes away is a common thing. I have heard of several people who do that with close friends. I think it is really rude to ask someone to do something like that b/c of the moral issues involved in it, but like I said the majority doesn't see anything wrong with it. However, if someone offers it is another story. Someone once offered to give me astronomy notes, and I politely said no.

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

I would say, "yes, follow me to the library and you can make copies of anything you would like, bring lots of quarters!"

My notes are precious to me!

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