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What’s In My Backpack? Meet the E-Board Series: Hailey McCaffrey

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Simmons chapter.

Meet one of our co-presidents, Hailey McCaffery, who opened up her North Face JesterĀ backpack to share her tips and tricks for navigating collegiate life.

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Live, love, laptop.

ā€œThis is my laptop (a Macbook Air), everything I love is on here, which makes it very nerve-wracking if it were to get stolen. I have so many jobs- I do graphic design freelance, so all of my designs are on here. Itā€™s like my baby.ā€

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What laptop is complete without stickers?

ā€œIā€™m so bummed, I have the coolest [sticker] coming thatā€™s not even on here yet. I have a cool Stranger Things one coming, and I would love if that was on here, but whatever… Ā I have a HerCampus sticker, of course. Friends is my favourite TV show, so I have Friends. I have this narwhal because I used to really like narwhals when I was younger, and then I have a sloth because thatā€™s my current favourite animal. I have this, it says ā€˜Peachy keen, jelly bean,ā€™ itā€™s from Grease, but I also just kinda like the saying. Itā€™s cute! Daisies are my favourite flower, and I have this, the world made up of flowers. I really like flowers. See, thereā€™s another daisy. And a New Hampshire sticker, Iā€™m from New Hampshire. A shark sticker for Simmons, of course, and more flowers. I like getting these from RedBubble, because itā€™s independent designers who make them, and I think thatā€™s really cool, as opposed to just buying them mass-produced, and they support the independent designers.ā€

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Straight From Staples

ā€œSo I have two notebooksĀ today, because I have two classes- finance and studio 5, which is basically a marketing department that runs out of Simmons.Ā And then I have my folder. I am very proud of this folder!Ā I am a very, very, obsessively organized person, and itā€™s got multiple flaps for all my classes. Staples sells a ton of these.ā€ She points to a schedule stuck to her folder, and says, ā€œWhat I do every week is I outline the homework thatā€™s due every day this week and the next week, so I can get as far ahead of little assignments as I can, and see big assignments before they actually get here, because I am not a procrastinator. It says ā€˜Life is pretty good.ā€™ I just think itā€™s cute, and itā€™s so helpful! I used to carry individual folders for every single class, and this is just so much easier, and Iā€™m not a binder person. I cannot do binders. Nope.ā€

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Good Gifts From Good Friends

ā€œI have my little pencil case, actually Alyssa (our co-president, currently abroad in England) gave it to me. It holds my pens, and some other stuff. Hand lotion. Recognize it from the survival kits? Chapstickā€¦ thatā€™s it.

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ā€œNow I can see the board!ā€

ā€œI got new glasses from Warby Parker. I got glasses over the summer, lost them on a plane, and then I didnā€™t have insurance to buy new glasses, but Warby Parker is wicked cheap without insurance, so I got these yesterday, and now I can see the board! Small joys.ā€

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To read some of Hailey’s articles, click here!

Header photo courtesy of Kathryn Prouse.

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Senior Editor at Her Campus Simmons