What's on your study desk?

[2LMNOP]

My study desk/area is really not conducive to learning at all. What books and other items do you have on your study area? What's important to have?

[Stephalump]

A lamp.

A Big Gulp.

A knitting gift basket I won at a silent auction.

A plastic fork.

A bottle of Tylenol.

A copy of Woman Within magazine (no clue what or what)

A lip gloss applicator without the tube of gloss.

Diaper rash cream

A stuffed leopard

A phone book

A plastic pirate hook

A trash bag

2 weeks worth of mail

And all of my nursing books.

Which things are important? I don't think I'm out of line to say ALL of them!

[zoe92]

I visited a friend last week who actually uses her desk to do work. She had a calendar, her syllabi taped to the wall, her textbooks (on the shelf attached above the desk), a notebook, a bunch of looseleaf in a stack, a big cup with pens/pencils/highlighters & a macbook. I was surprised because most people (like me) stack junk on their desk & never actually get it use it. But she said if she works on her bed, she falls asleep.

[Stephalump]

I can't study anywhere at home. Suddenly, doing laundry seems fun. Washing dishes seems like a vacation. Organizing wedding photos from a decade ago is a necessity! My poor husband set me up a really nice study area in our bedroom (I thought the location of the office was the problem) and now it's a catch-all.

[rubato, ASN, RN]

My desk has all my powerpoints, my study guides, my laptop and whichever book I'm working out of at the time. Also, my planner and a pen and highlighter. I barely have enough room for all that, much less anything extra. TV must be off, radio must be off, everyone must leave my house, and the curtains must be closed.

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

For my rn-bsn, same as in nursing school - books, laptop, coffee, cat.

[Aradien]

I finally have a really great desk purchased from IKEA. It is a corner unit with a pull out part of the desk (forms an "L" when pulled out). I have two laptops (a MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air, I am a bit of a geek ), a white board where every week I write what the weekly requirements are per class (color coded, I am taking two classes at a time online), a file cabinet/bookshelf combo for current textbooks and two 3-ringed binders. But I don't recommend this setup for everybody. I am just slightly CDO (OCD but more alphabetically correct)! LOL!

Aradien

[WoundedBird]

I'm using our dining room table since the hubbs works from home on occasion. Currently it's covered in books for donation, winter coats, and has an old window propped up on it. What it's going to look like in a week is the window will be hung on the wall as my white board, a computer monitor, desk lamp, old alarm clock, and a set of wire cubes for storage. Perks to this set up is that I'm in the only room on that level of the townhouse so there's not a lot of distractions from the TV, couch, or the patio. Plus, it's the coolest spot too so that's great for the summer but not so in the winter.

[NightNerd, MSN, RN]

The desk was a catch-all until this morning. Fixed!

Now I've got a calendar AND a planner for the weekly stuff, my laptop and printer, pens, pencils, highlighters, trash can and box for recycling, textbooks and notes from pre-reqs (I am starting my Fundamentals class at the end of the month, so I don't know how much I'll need that stuff yet). I would love to get one of those corkboards to tack my syllabuses and important memos to, but sadly I don't think I've got wall space for it.

I used to have a whiteboard, but I never ever used it. It may be helpful to some folks who like to draw. For me, it was totally unnecessary and I never used it.

Finally, emergency granola bars and Diet Cokes, and photos of me and the BF, family, and friends - motivation to get through the next year so I can see them all again!

[i♥words]

Calendar

Whiteboard

Corkboard

About three different containers holding various assortments of pens, pencils, highlighters, and dry-erase markers. I don't know why I keep going down that aisle. I think I'm stocking up for the zombie apocalypse. (You know, because I'll be hand-writing my survival guide then.)

Electric pencil sharpener, because I still like using those #2s.

Pictures of people I love and some I just like.

Class schedule in full because I forget the course numbers, and sometimes the room numbers, and sometimes the times.

Laptop.

Bookcase with all of my textbooks.

Basically, I pile junk on my desk throughout the week and use Saturday morning to de-clutter (like, dump stuff in a junk drawer). Otherwise, i stack things on the floor by my desk so I have some room to actually open a book and study. I actually do pretty much all of my studying at my desk, because if I sit back on the couch or chill on my bed I get distracted and/or sleepy. My desk is really the only place where, when a family member walks by, it is known that I am not available for frivolous conversation.

[Snowangel7390]

Wow Reading this reminded me of what I do. Through everything on the floor Lol.