Textbooks (Calculus and CS): The two classes that genuinely require textbook reading this semester. I always have them with me so I can supplement lectures with reading. I’ve always done best when I learn a topic or concept in two different teaching styles as it forces me to think through a topic from different stances.
HeadPhones (Wired and Wireless): I love music and listen to music constantly. Through the Spotify year in review analysis, I listened to over 62 days of music in 2019. I haven’t yet decided if I want to listen to more or less music this year.
Calculator: I like to write 58008 and flip the calculator upside down. I can also put all the notes and dates from my History classes and use it during tests. I haven’t figured out why I get so many weird looks, maybe I have a bad poker face.
Notebooks and Planner: I don’t really use the planner. It’s mainly there for the appearance of having some form of organization. In reality, my desk is always a mess and my backpack normally pokes into my back due to the books not being inserted the same way. One of my new year resolutions is to plan out my week each Sunday night.
Quest Bar: A staple for any bag, athlete, or health-minded individual. Easy nutrition for on-the-go people with things to do and mountains to climb. Get your own at: Questnutrition.com. Wait did the instructions want us to advertise or not?
Tea Bag: Another new years resolution was to spend less money at Kaldis and the Peet’s in the library.
Pencil Case: I can’t tell you what’s inside. Not drugs.
Thermal Temperature Maintaining Insulated Bottle: I keep the tea bag in here to make sure it stays warm. It’s just hard to get the air inside the bottle warm and maintain the temperature while I insert the tea bag. Thermodynamics outside the classroom is just as irritating as during class.
Melatonin: I have a really hard time falling asleep, and often go straight from the library to bed, so I carry melatonin with me so I can take it about thirty minutes before I leave the library. Not only does it help regulate my sleep schedule, but it allows me to put a physical barrier on how much time I spend in the library. I work better at night, but constantly struggle waking up in the morning due to late nights; this is my effort to create a more rigorous sleep and waking schedule.
Pencil: There was too much space in between my computer and the textbooks without it. In reality, I’m very against any pencil without a full eraser, which I made sure to represent. I don’t erase pencil, I simply cross it our with a blue or green pen, then continue.
Computer: A modern necessity. Note taking, coding, emails, and more is completed on a daily.
Books (How To Not Be Wrong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous): I generally have books which I’m reading ulterior to my classes. My father instilled a deep love for reading early on, and I pass time immersed in a book. I generally read two books simultaneously: one more STEM orientated and another which might be a novel or historical account. I recommend How To Not Be Wrong to any math or science orientated person who feels like recent STEM courses have been taught in less intuitively. Recently, I struggled to stay engaged in my Math and Physics courses as they are seeming to be more arbitrary. This book is reinstalling an appreciation for the applications of statistical analysis and calculus.
Rubik’s Cube: I can’t solve it but it makes me seem like a quirky (in an endearing way) individual. I can currently solve the first layer and make a white cross, so that’s pretty cool.
Raybans Case. Also not drugs. Sunglasses.
Blue Power-aid Bottle: A lot of people had them at the beginning of the year so I thought it was a freshman thing. Now people keep asking me which sport I play. It’s quite fun to see which sports pass as genuine college Varsity sports: My favorite one which was accepted was Croquet, yet surprisingly Table Tennis was not. I’m looking forward to the next opportunity to try to get by as a D3 Cheese Roller training for the next UAA meet.
Mac Adapter: I’m an avid Liverpool F.C fan and watch all the games on my roommate’ television through an HDMI adapter.
Nuun Electrolight Replacement: Okay fine a little bit of drugs. It’s a legal amount in Colombia so no biggie.
This was a very engaging activity for me as it required an analysis of how my stuff will be perceived by others. Through my process, I wrote the explanations for each individual item (besides the pencil) prior to organizing and snapping the photo. This forced me to rationalize why that item matters to me an whether or not it’s necessary to depict an accurate representation of myself. For example, I had a drawing notepad in my backpack. I generally love drawing, but had that due to drawing a lot over winter break. Using my first semester as a sample size, I won’t be drawing a lot while in college, and the rest of my bag depicts the college representation of myself.
Though my descriptions for some items were sarcastic, I feel my bag accurately represented who I am. I’m a naturally creative person who tries to not take anything serious until I have to, am passionate about it, or it’s of importance to another person. What was challenging is finding an appropriate balance of seriousness and sarcasm: though I could certainly write genuine or satirical descriptions of each item, I didn’t want to come off corny or hyper-somber. I certainly feel like this assignment is a useful and enjoying type of writing. While laying out and photographing the bag itself is not, I consider the writing a necessary explanation for the picture. Any form or conscious writing is not only a type of literature but also an exercise in synthesis.
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