Study With Me: Desk Organization

Hi, sweeties

Like I promised, here is a blogpost about my desk (with pictures) and the way I organize it. My writing will probably be a little disorganized, since it's an unusual blogpost to write.

Here is an overview of my desk:

First, I would like to proceed to the most, perhaps, clever organization idea on my main table: printer table and drawer from carton boxes. Note, it's not my idea, I got it from Pinterest, and twisted it a little.

I glued together 4 carton boxes, but they came in a pack of 5, so I kept the 5th one as a holder for sheet protectors, coloured paper, squared paper, and lined paper. Into the 4 boxes underneath the printer, I put my school books and lab manuals+notebooks. Right near the printer (but you can't see) I store my whole puncher.

My white board isn't glued or screwed to the wall because it's a rented apartment and it's not allowed. However for now, I use it as a motivational board for quotes. You are gonna laugh, but my 1st quote is from Greys Anatomy, Cristina Yang's character: "Should I eat, or should I shower? I could sleep in the shower, but I'm also starving". For some reason this quote gives me a motivation to keep studying as much as I can because some people (med students and residents) are way more tired than I am, so I can't complain. And also, it motivates me to study until the point when I become a doctor and I will have a privilege of being tired at work where I save lives of my patients. You might or might not think I'm weird now :D

The other quote I didn't put up yet, but it reads: "Everything that kills me makes me feel alive" from one of the pop songs. And again, it all comes down to working really hard and that being a privilege.

I also have a tablet holder (or whatever it is) where I put my iPad onto. My uni has a blended learning format, meaning that a lot of the material is taught through online modules, and there is a bunch of other resources. So to access it while I need my laptop for something else - I use my tablet.

It might look a little unusual at first, but the little table space which has binders underneath is a part of the design of the big table. I put a little shelf unit underneath it to have 2 more spaces available. On the higher one, I put my binders and my stationery box, and I placed my MCAT books below on the floor. Here is that pink stationery box and its contents:

It has little items like post-it notes, tape, white-outs, and staples. It's convenient to store them in one place with compartments, so that's what I did.

Behind the white shelf unit, you can locate 2 pensil and pen boxes, some binders, and a container. Those binders are empty and serve as extras in case I need to put something in there. The container is empty for now, but I'm sure I'll find something to put in there.

The drawer unit to the left from the little table has 4 compartments, and here is how the insides look like. The 4th compartment is a little boring, as it has extra containers, batteries, skrews, and other household items: