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Over at The Berry Patch, Ory wanted help choosing which backpack to get. Well, if that wasn’t the straw that broke this camel’s back to finally get me to order a new one for myself…I did, and I can’t wait until I get it. Ever since winter break, I have been carrying my backpack with all my books/folders/etc., my laptop bag (Targus Citylite, so it’s just larger than a slipper) for my tablet, and on most days when I pack a lunch, my insulated lunch bag (about the size of a small purse). I didn’t have a laptop last semester, so a backpack which contained all my small electronic gear (iPod, Palm) was always problematic with 20 lbs. of books; I was always worried about crushing the gadgets. The Targus is a great case, but it’s one more thing to carry, one more set of pockets to misplace something in a hurry, and I’m like a complete retard looking for this or that in both cases, depending on where I decided to stuff it the time before. My backpack is a Mexican Wal-Mart special, since I didn’t have time to get a good one before I left the states, even though I knew I probably would need one. Now that I don’t live w/in walking distance of school, I pack even more things for the whole day as before.

Enter the new backpack that shall free me of all despair, usher in a new era of conscientious studying, and will singlehandedly ensure my 99th percentile on the USMLE Step I: behold, I present to you, the eBags Macroloader. (cue Strauss’ “…Zarathustra”) See the pictures on the bottom left to see the laptop integration goodness, the plentiful pockets, the undeniably sexy “junk in the trunk.”

OK, so I’ll be as much of a slacker after I get it as before, I’ll probably look like a freak, but at least I’ll have everything consolidated, even if I do develop kyphosis as a result of packmuling everything, but I’ll be organized, damnit!

Thanks Ory, thanks a lot. ;^)