Thank god.
The semester is over, and I have a month to waste my evenings in IRC and watching TV. It’s very strange not having any class work hovering over me, waiting for me to tackle it at the last minute, same as I do everything else.
My desk is an atrocious mess, though. This could explain why I spent hardly any time at it this semester. Well, that and the part where I did less than twenty math problems outside of class this semester. 
(I know, I’m shocked I’m going to pass, as well.) I do have plans to clear of the desk before Christmas, considering it’s at our house this year, and my relatives arn’t shy about wandering into bedrooms–especially my cousins.
The biggest task in front of me, is the massive amount of paperwork I have to scan in. I’m a packrat, and I like to keep all my old work, just in case I need it again. I know, everyone’s thinking “what on earth would you need old papers for,” but it makes sense for me. I am sure that one day, I will end up writing a repeat of some of the papers I’ve already done, and it makes sense to keep them so I don’t have to start all over from scratch. And, well, the math work comes in handy. I spend more time studying out of my begining Algebra notebook this semester than I did out of the notes I took in class.
Are you tired of hearing about my desk? I’m tired of thinking about it. I just ignore it, a large 9 square foot sinkhole in the corner of my room. I’m lucky if I can even find anything on it these days.
Maybe if I had desk drawers, I wouldn’t have this problem. But, then again, I’d just be complaining about my messy desk drawers then.
–”We Are So Last Year,” If Only You Were Lonely: Hawthorne Heights
Why would you ever need your old papers? Why in case a friend of yours takes the same course!
Well yeah, there’s that too… But I always give out the wrong answers, because seriously? If I did all that work, so do you. :p
Ah, I didn’t mean it that way. For instance, I’ve been slowly teaching myself Japanese and was mentioning it to an otaku friend of mine who i relatively fluent in it. He let me borrow all of his notes from his Japanese courses, and it’s helped me tremendously.
This is even more useful in engineering courses. I’m quite certain that engineering textbooks are designed to never ever ever ever ever give you an answer, so you never know if you’re doing it right. Old notes, homework and quizzes are a godsend!
Also, while somewhat dubious… having access to old exams from a professor can be quite beneficial to help you know the /kinds/ of questions and expected answers the professor has.
I just cleaned off my desks last night in a post-finals crash. It’s nice to see the tabletop again. Now I just have to get around to implanting my old hard disks in my new server so that I can get /it/ off of my workbench…
No, I knew what you ment. Me and ME trade notes on the books we’ve read for the semester, and stuff. But, I’m just evil in the “let me see your paper because I’m going to write one just like it” way. I don’t share with people who don’t do the work on their own.
After all, I’m using ME’s book for American Lit next semester, and she’s got all her notes in the margins. Good thing she and I think the same way, or they’d annoy me to no end.
So yes, you can borrow my notes if you want to.
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