City of Binders

So in OT school we get A LOOTTTT of papers, handouts, and everything in between. Trying to organize it all has been a CHALLENGE. At first, I thought about just putting all the papers for a semester in a 4 inch binder -- and I did. However, it was heavy and not the easiest to navigate. Plus, our classes often overlap in material, especially when it comes to documentation, interviewing patients, and various conditions. Therefore, organizing by class isn't the best idea either.

So, instead, I decided that I would buy a crap load of binders and organize them by topic. It has been time consuming since I've had to rummage through my chaos of papers from all my classes pulling things out and putting them together with their mates. However, it's been well worth it. So far I have used 8 of the 13 binders I bought. Pictured to the right is a few examples of some of the binder topics I chose to group together (I have small hands so I could only hold so many lol). I'm still not done organizing everything. I still have a lot of papers to go through and I want to add a table of contents as well as some labeled dividers. When I finish organizing all the papers I haven't gotten thus far in my program I will share the completed "project." 

My next biggest challenge will be finding space for all of these binders. On top of all these binders, I also have a ton of OT related books. I have the ones that were required by my program, but I also bought other resources that I thought would be helpful throughout my career (I'll share all of them in a later post). Space won't be as big of an issue when I get my own place, but for now, I must deal with the space I have -- which isn't much. 

I'm also sure as the semesters go along I may have to either buy bigger binders, or group them differently, etc. etc. So, that will be interesting as it goes along. My ultimate goal is that all my papers (from May 2014 - May 2016) are well organized by the time Fieldwork II starts (June 2016). If I have all these resources but can't access them quickly then it's really pointless, in my opinion. 

Well, that about wraps up this blog post. Just wanted to fill ya'll in on my latest and greatest! lol :)