Meet Tommy’s Backpack

My backpack isn’t your “typical” backpack. 

When I think of the “ideal backpack,” I think of the ones that I’d lug around high school. It’s those ones with two ginormous and uncomfortable straps that go over the shoulders, three dividers that go from the smallest pocket to the largest. It’s a backpack that you can fit all of your books, binders, lunchbox, sweaty gym clothes and other necessities into. It’s the one that no matter how hard I’d try to keep in good shape, would always find the material ripping, and I’d desperately need a new one for the next school year. 

So, what is my backpack nowadays? Well, college is a lot different than middle school and high school. I don’t have eight classes and a lunch in between them. I have one to two classes per day, and not on all five days during the week. With that, there isn’t much to carry. Long gone are the days of throwing out my back by carrying all of my books and binders. No more are the days of needing three pockets to fit all of my necessities into. 

Now, my backpack is a black and white, one pocket, and Nike drawstring bag. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s just spacious enough to keep some paper, a folder, a pencil, my car keys, and my hoodie in. It’s the most convenient bag for what I need at college. 

It’s awfully depressing describing my backpack from back-in-the-day compared to what it is now. In a weird way, it’s like I left a piece of my childhood behind. That’s okay, I don’t miss carrying my one-thousand-pound-bag all over the school anyway.