Happy Labor Day weekend!! Or, Happy #ldw, as it is known on social media. See how hip and cool I am?

No matter how old and far away from my “back to school” days I get, Labor Day will never, ever not feel like the end of a carefree summer and the beginning of a busy, serious Fall. I was a giant nerd as a kid, so there was literally nothing more exciting than back to school shopping at Staples, walking up and down the aisles and buying shiny new everything to kick off the new school year. Over time, my passion drifted from gel pens and Lisa Frank notebooks to TI-89 graphing calculators and sleek Jansports (see above re: nerd), but my excitement level never waned. And even though these Berkeley students I live amongst went back a few weeks ago, the newness is still palpable, and I’m enjoying living that new school year feeling a little more than usual this year, albeit vicariously.

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