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Did or do you save your school work?

Kept my high school stuff because I convinced myself how useful it was going to be in case I needed to know something. It hasn't been useful at all.


Kept my undergrad uni work, particularly things written in MS Word or something like that. Haven't looked at it much, or at all. If I need to find something out, I'll use one of my old textbooks, or the internet, not scrounge through old notes.

My Masters work has been looked at once or twice, but my PhD work will definitely be something I'll keep. :p
 
Plymouthbreezer said:
Heh. Yeah, and piled all together, it rises 5'7" (grades 7-12). True story.
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I don't think my middle school and high school would get close to that. I think I may have had it easy, public school and all. :)

There were always rumors about how hard the college prep high schools were and I was glad I didn't go to those. Plus even if one of those schools got me into any Ivy, since they only shot for that or nice private universities, how would I pay for it, and would it be that much better than some state funded university like Michigan or Virginia?

Pretty much outside of two or three kids I went to HS with who went to Stanford, Boston University, and maybe Michigan, everybody who were college bound, which was about a third of our class, in my class of 200 went to the University of California, California State University, or to a junior college.
 
i really believe the ONLY advantage to ivy schools over state schools is that usually, more wealthy.powerful connections can be made

not that it cant happen in state schools but probably not as frequent as ivy
 
dukebound85 said:
i really believe the ONLY advantage to ivy schools over state schools is that usually, more wealthy.powerful connections can be made

not that it cant happen in state schools but probably not as frequent as ivy
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When I was in college, I was more interested in just trying to get through class. I went to a state university and junior college also and there was enough to study, for my tastes.

A later college I went to, which was a business only school catering mostly to graduate students, was all about connections. I felt a little out of place with this school and its rather conservative student and faculty population. This is where I heard the stories about so and so getting a VP spot in a company or becoming a senior manager/partner based more on school connection than on merit. In a perfect society, we would be merit based, but some schools are very traditional and honor that secret society stuff. Our school's society, or inside group, were called "the mafia". Same thing as the Godfather but a little more of a Martini crowd sporting tan slacks and driving Lexus and (then) desirable SUVs. Mostly a chardonnay group with the occasional, but always import or microbrew label beer. And yes, we would meet in some rich student's house and the wine was supplied by some rich student who owned their own winery. My left wing politics were kept to myself. :)
 
I don't keep my notes (which are handwritten), but I do save my papers I write. I'm sure I'll delete them a few years down the road though.
 
63dot said:
I don't think my middle school and high school would get close to that. I think I may have had it easy, public school and all. :)

There were always rumors about how hard the college prep high schools were and I was glad I didn't go to those. Plus even if one of those schools got me into any Ivy, since they only shot for that or nice private universities, how would I pay for it, and would it be that much better than some state funded university like Michigan or Virginia?

Pretty much outside of two or three kids I went to HS with who went to Stanford, Boston University, and maybe Michigan, everybody who were college bound, which was about a third of our class, in my class of 200 went to the University of California, California State University, or to a junior college.
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I went to Public Schools my entire life... I guess it just depends on the system and location. I'm from Massachusetts, and up here, education is big business.

I go to a state college now (Massachusetts College of Art and Design), and feel that the quality of education here is just as good as it would be at any private four year institution.
 
I still have all of my work I've done throughout college, both paper and digital (although the paper is more strewn about :p). Two of my papers from English 101 actually came in handy as I was able to use them again in 102 :)
 
I saved most of my work during college. I have gone back to a few courses looking for some information but that was done rarely and only for classes pertaining to my major.
 
I have college work — well, all the graphic design stuff I did, nothing else — saved on my Mac. A few large prints and boxes and such too, including an unopened bottle of wine (had forgotten about that until now!). But barely any paperwork.

Anything older than college, I don't have at all. Certainly nothing physical. I did have some digital files that were lost in a hard drive crash some time ago with no backup.
 
I've been holding onto most of my university stuff thus far, but except for midterms/exams, it's mostly electronic so I it's not like it's a hassle.
 
I saved some english papers and reports, most of my notes/homework from chem/bio/physics and geometry/trig/calc from highschool. College stuff is pretty much all saved but some trimming needs to be done soon.
 
I had a large bonfire after I got my college diploma in the mail. I do still have a digital copy of a lot of papers though.
 
I typically save most of the assignments I get back, including papers and such from classes related to my major and related fields. I have a plastic file drawer that holds a tremendous bulk of articles and papers from class readings, notes, and project articles...especially articles for class. Our IR professors use a lot of PDF files, but I need to read them on paper otherwise I just gloss over them. It's useful though, I pull them up from time to time and especially since I'm writing a senior thesis I can refer back to some articles and even a few books for my lit review :)
 
I always save my documents, Keynotes, etc. because maybe later on I can use it again or give it to someone else.
 
i remember writing an instense research paper in hs and then turned around and used that same paper for multiple other assignments that were similar in nature in both hs and college

saved so much time it wasnt funny lol
 
Plymouthbreezer said:
I went to Public Schools my entire life... I guess it just depends on the system and location. I'm from Massachusetts, and up here, education is big business.

I go to a state college now (Massachusetts College of Art and Design), and feel that the quality of education here is just as good as it would be at any private four year institution.
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what about cash strapped california and a governor who gives tax cuts to the rich but talks about how he is pro education when on the campaign trail?

he tore a page out of george hw bush's "education president" campaign in 1988
 
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