Lost Flash Drive-Should I be worried?

<p>So the other day I was incredibly stupid and forgot to take my flash drive out of one of the computers in my school's library, and when I came back it was gone, and the librarians said no one dropped one off, same deal with the school lost and found. I don't really care about the flash drive itself, it was pretty cheap, but all my college essays were on the drive. Thankfully there was only one short answer one that I didn't have another copy of, but what do you think the chances are of a person using the essays or giving them to someone to use?
It really irks me that there are people in my school that would just steal a flash drive out of a computer and not return it (I am 100% positive that some of the files on the drive had my name on them)</p>

<p>probably slim to none, the person probably would just wipe it clean and use it himself</p>