<p>Ooooh. Books. Test prep books. I do like shopping for those which I’m going to next week with my other new school things.</p>
<p>It is true about the lab coat. It has to be full length otherwise it’s just a joke.</p>
<p>I thought I was the only person who likes school supply shopping! Yeah, I’d rather shop for school supplies than clothes too.</p>
<p>I’ve already packed all of my textbooks in my backpack. I’ve looked at them numerous times.</p>
<p>How do you get your textbooks so early? Do you have to buy them? Some of my teachers don’t even hand them out until three weeks after school starts.</p>
<p>LOL I have one textbook, and that’s my calculus textbook… borrowing from a friend to make sure I don’t have a problem with my school system.</p>
<p>Would you care to explain?</p>
<p>I love the feeling of putting fresh notebooks, folders, and pens into my nice clean backpack, especially knowing that in a few weeks my organizational system will fall to pieces and it’ll be littered with dozens of random papers. I treasure writing in a fresh notebook with a nice new pen on the first day and looking around the classroom to see everyone doing the same. It always gives me the feeling of a fresh start. </p>
<p>I remember in elementary and middle school I used to obsess more over this type of stuff since it seemed to be a competition of who had the coolest school supplies and gadgets on the first day. I ALWAYS had the cool stuff over the years…newest Lisa Frank pencils, mechanical pencils when they became really popular, the folding ruler, the flexible ruler, correction tape, the comfort-grip scissors, the mini battery-operated sharpeners, gel pens, “automated” flip-top calculator erasable colored pencils, and of course the latest SpaceMaker to hold all my goodies. MY backpack was huge until about 8th grade.</p>
<p>But did you have a battery operated eraser? I think not!</p>
<p>Actually neither did I. I saw a student with one a few years ago and thought it was neat. I’ve always remembered it since.</p>
<p>^^i feel like that’s a good start to a college essay.</p>
<p>it was fun to read.</p>
<p>How would you exand on that?</p>
<p>“Jealousy filled me to the brim as I watched him with his electronic eraser. It marked away his mistakes without any troubles. The graphite disappeared as quickly as he had written it, and I knew that day that I would one day own a battery operated eraser also.”</p>
<p>:):)</p>
<p>Or did you mean the love of fresh school supplies?</p>
<p>I just realized that that was probably what the comment was meaning…</p>
<p>I want a battery operated eraser!</p>
<p>It was really neat. Except, I remember the kid who had it was really obnoxious about it and he’d sit there erasing his paper until he tore a hole in it.</p>
<p>haha i was referring to technol21’s post. </p>
<p>sorry.</p>
<p>I’m not ready to go back! I do love school shopping (supplies and clothes) though, and organizing everything like it will actually make me a more productive person.</p>
<p>woohoo!!! I figured that out right as I hit submit. 
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<p>I’m “cleaning my room” today in preparation for school. In other words, oranizing my desk and my band music and whatnot so I can actually find everything on day one.</p>