Spring Cleaning

Ben and I have been trying to so some spring cleaning this week. We live in a small apartment, so every once in a while we have to go through our stuff and purge. We actually kind of enjoy it. I don't know why, but it's so liberating to throw things away. Anyway, Ben decided it was time to toss all of his notes from the first two years of medical school. I couldn't believe how much he had. It's no wonder medical students spend all of their time studying. How could you not when you are supposed to learn all the stuff that's in here??

That's 21 notebooks worth of class notes--oh, and he did keep one of his notebooks from anesthesia class. Benj was so funny looking through these. He'd say things like, "Oh, physiology that was a pretty good class," or "neurology......blech!" or "this was a really good diagram." He has a lot of memories here. He spent many nights studying these notes with Michael (his good friend from 1st and 2nd years). We emptied out each notebook and then we had to take the papers to a recycling bin--I mean seriously, we probably have a whole forest worth of trees here. They had to be recycled. It took both of us to carry this tub to the school and get rid of it. I feel bad for the janitor who has to empty that recycling bin! If I knew who he/she was I would bring them a special treat. They'll deserve it after this load.