I've been doing a lot
I've been doing a lot of cleaning out lately. I got a new computer over the break, so for the past couple hours today I've been moving files from the old computer to the new, deciding which ones are important enough to be burned to a CD and which ones I can just leave on my computer, to be deleted when I install a new OS.
I've always been a packrat, but lately I've gotten a little less sentimental about some things. Over the break, I went through some of my old file folders with my work from high/middle school and got rid of a lot of papers I didn't need. I recycled almost all my work from my high school math classes, for example, without much of a second thought. But I couldn't bring myself to throw away any of the five-inch thick stack of papers that made up all the work I did for the five years of Spanish that I took, nor the work I did for my English classes--those essays on The Great Gatsby and King Lear and the scraps of paper on which I copied down poems that I was supposed to memorize. There were also some creative projects that I did for various classes--a pop-up book for Spanish, a photo album for social studies--that I kept just because I was really proud of the artwork I did.
It's funny, the things you choose to keep. Or maybe it's not, really. I'm not really worried about any of my old math stuff, I suppose, because I'm still using it almost every day here at Tech. But when your strongest attribute has always been your well-roundedness, it's the things I know I've already started to forget--how to conjugate Spanish verbs, the names of literary devices--that I'm most afraid of losing.