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Have worked out that most of my first-year notes are either available online or of no consequence to me subsequantly, and informed that my junk is taking up too much space at home and I need to drastically reduce the amount of Stuff I have.

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[ruhe.livejournal.com]

I've kept all my engineering notes as-is - and typed up my relevant political science notes to save for the next round. My typed up notes are a lot better than anyone else's notes on the same thing - because they're what I understand/understood. Yes, I am a bit of a packrat too, but some of my undergrad stuff came in handy when I was working on my masters. What I did to make it a little more manageable was go through old foldres and throw out what wasn't necessary (like homework - or when I couldn't figure out what it was) and stick the rest in three ring binders. I need to go through again before I start my new round of research and do a few tables of contents so that I can find stuff later.

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Are you continuing being a CompSci next year? My experience was that there wasn't a lot that really carried over from one year to the next.

And having said that, recently I've been sorting my stuff prior to theora moving in, and found some of my lecture notes :-/ I think they may be slightly out of date now.

[king-of-wrong.livejournal.com]

My experience was that there wasn't a lot that really carried over from one year to the next

Blatantly there is - Continuous Mathematics has a lot on the Fourier stuff from Ia maths and I'd imagine that Discrete Maths makes a few more indirect appearances (after RL&FA). Things like PP&E are probably useless and OS I/Java/electronics are assumed to be Known by the end of the first year - so if you're not 100% on them, keep the notes.

The bench subject (Physics/MMS/whatever) is useless for next year but might be handy in the future (after graduation) - I'm chucking my notes but I bought a copy of the textbook. I've found that stuff I learned at GCSE/A-level is still quite handy to know from time to time.

/me embraces his inner packrat

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

Gah. I could have used the Fourier stuff in my Wireless networks class. They assumed that we all knew what was being talked about - I didn't.

[jaq.livejournal.com]

I never did any of that Fourier stuff.

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

I did - or tried to. It made me cry. I checked out about 18 books for undergrads, had several long conversations with my professor, and finally got a decent answer from a good friend of mine studying geophysics - apparently the waves work the same in the air (wireless) and in the ground (earthquakes and sound).

[nephrozym.livejournal.com]

scan them all, then ditch them. a cdr takes up virtually no space.

[passage.livejournal.com]

I've found no use for exampole sheet notes after the year I produced them, but I have found lecture notes to retain their usefulness (it rather depends on the subject of course, but which subjects are actually worthwhile is something you're only going to find out in your remaining years.
So I recommend ditching example sheet stuff, but keeping all your notes.