Backpacks can be heavy. When syllabuses constantly require notebooks, loose leaf paper and folders, along with the heavy load of books and other materials classes may need, sometimes shoulder pain from your boulder of a backpack seems unavoidable.
In freshman year, I naively looked for organization when choosing how to arrange my bag for the start of the school year. I separated all of my classes into different one inch binders filled with empty loose leaf papers for each class, some for which my binder was barely needed. I severely underestimated the suffering the weight of my backpack would bestow upon my poor shoulders and back, which may have caused the discovery of my mild scoliosis.
It was only until I saw a girl with a three inch binder for all of her classes that my eyes were opened.
Let me explain. A three inch binder is the unbeatable must-have if you want an organized, efficient and lightweight jack of all trades item to put your schoolwork in and out, regardless of the class you’re in. Throw in a divider for designated areas for your classes, a few folders that can go in prongs and you’ve got something so convenient and easy you will never back out from. No more worrying and constantly sorting through your backpack to see if you missed anything from school, because all you need is your everything binder and computer.
Remember when, in middle school, we would all have to use those annoying Case-it binders? Well, whoever enforced that rule was trying to tell us something. It was that big binders are efficient, easy and are nearly all you need for school.
If you don’t have a big binder, no worries! Just use two small one inch binders, like I did. And for further evidence, I placed my five old school one inch binders from last year in the same bag as my new one inch binders and tested their weights on my back. The weight has significantly reduced in the two one inch binders in comparison to the five old ones, because five is greater than two.
