The graduate's dilemma

[innerbrat]

As an undergraduate, I was particularly OCD with regards to my lecture notes and all the papers and book chapters I collected while making those notes. To the extent that I now have about a dozen colour code lever arch files filled with notes taken on everything from Foramnifera to human socioevolution, all cluttering up my parents' house

Comments

[edith_the_hutt]

I got me a filing cabinet for my notes (and other paper, but a good half are course notes). I'm tempted to buy a few textbooks and toss them but I suspect it would cost me a few hundred pounds to get enough textbooks on some of the later year stuff and I really don't have that sort of money to spend on what amounts to reducing clutter.

[davegodfrey]

Yes. Unfortunately I already have four years of palaeontology. I might be interested in textbooks that I don't already have.

[avariel_wings]

Offer them up on MySkip (I'll do it for you if you don't want to make an account just for this).

Someone may have a use for them.

[van]

I wish I had this problem. I am such a fucking clutter packrat.

[ashen_key]

...if by 'use' you mean 'could be useful as research for a story idea I'm not even sure if I am writing yet' when I am a dreadful packrat and running about of space?

Which can be summed up as "YES, but realistically, probably no. :( :( :("