EMMA PHILBROOK: STUDENT LIFE

I bought my first locker organizer yesterday. It's a kit full of black plastic planks that you can interlock to form several configurations of shelves. After a little fiddling around this morning, I decided on an H-shaped setup - notebooks on top, textbooks on the bottom, and a shelf in the middle for pencil bags, a day planner, and whatever forms may need taking home.

I was super excited about this because my lockers for the past three years have been the stuff of urban myth. Landslides onto the head? Check. Paper pileups in which everything from homework to sunglasses can disappear for etern...