With my current setup how much ram do you think I would be using up?

Hey Apple Community!!!!! Recently bought my first Apple Product, a couple months back bought a 13in Macbook Pro and so far I love it but recently have been having some wierd issues. I am a Green Horn with a capital "G" when it comes to apple software so I am not sure where to even begin.
When I bought my Mbp I also purchased 16gb ddr3 of ram separately from a reputable dealer that I installed when I got the mbp. I use this strictly for school and thats it and I am very good with computers, well PC anyways (I have other pc's for whatever else I want to do). I installed VMWare Fusion along with Windows 7 ultimate as I am studying computer programming and the programs I need to run are windows based. However it seems to me like I have alot of stuff in the Ram pretty much all the time. Like usually less than 1gb is free, maybe 2 or 3 gbs free and not much is wired. Alot (like usually around 10 gb or more) is Active. Sometimes when I remove the usb receiver for my wireless mouse the whole computer will shut down and restart but I cant make heads or tails of the report it gives me. It also seems to be getting slower at times. The little rainbow circle that takes over the mouse pointer when something is loading is becoming a closer friend than I would like lol. Any ideas on some programs or registry repairs(if the mac even has registry I thought I read somewhere it does not, at least not in the same sense as pc based). Really trying to keep a little amount of stuff off this thing as possible I would like this to last through school.

I also have 16GB of RAM and when I'm running a lot of apps and not restarting for days on end, my RAM usage in Activity Monitor can look like this:
Usually a restart will free up a lot of RAM - even though I do keep dozens of apps open at once
So that's nothing to worry about.
I have no idea why you're having 'beachballing' - take a look at ds store's user tip - Step by Step to fix your Mac. Maybe you can come up with some ideas there.
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