Cleaning out the closet

Today I started gutting my books shelves and have hopes of heading toward the closets to get rid of all that extra stuff that I keep saving for *someday* when it might be useful, but really it's moved at least 3 times and never been needed, it's time for it to go. As I sorted through the bookshelves, there were, of course, the old college readers. In them there were also tests, essays, homework assignments, and journal entries. Most of it is hitting the round file straight away, other parts though seemed blog-worthy in one sense or another, at least for the sake of "the record". But since many things are 5-7 years old, it didn't seem fully appropriate to overload my current blog with those entries. So here they are....