Cluster Clutter

Below is an example of the thesis-induced clutter that has been littering the Edwards basement for at least a couple months. I count more than forty books stacked every which way (some opened), plus a candy wrapper, an empty cup of Small World coffee, an empty Snapple jar, lots of loose sheets of paper, a tube of lotion hidden behind the computer (not visible in this picture), plus a very, very dirty computer screen (see all the fingerprints?).

This particular carrel has looked like this (though the number of books may have decreased) since the beginning of second semester--and maybe even since first semester finals.That's more than nine weeks!Finally, it seems, the clutter is getting on someone's nerves--and not just the nerves of those who live in Edwards and have been banished from their building's cluster: