The contents of the backpack of Michael Lloyd

The contents of my backpack are almost purely functional; I only carry around what I need to carry around to get the work done. I find that a lot of the extraneous materials that I need not carry on my person can easily be dealt with when I make my way to a computer on campus.

My pencil case, which is just a Ziploc bag filled with pencils wooden and mechanical, and pens. I keep many pencils and pens on hand, in the event that a point snaps or a mechanical pencil runs out of writing material or a pen runs out of ink. Admittedly, I have far too many pencils, but most of them were found by being picked up off of the ground; if it is still capable of being used, a pencil on the ground will be picked up by me.

A lanyard that I had found on the ground while walking from a class to the TECH Center, or vice versa; I forget. It serves no real purpose; it just happened to be in my bag when I took these pictures. I will pick up anything that piques my interest, if it's small enough to carry, and it doesn't smell badly.
My notebooks for Web Art & Design and Film History I. I chose notebooks made from recycled materials, because I am a very green person; very aware of the carbon footprint that all of us leave behind. Because of the changes in the way we exchange information, because of the Internet, I have become very aware of how we are harming the planet, so for the past several semesters, I have used only these EnviroNotebooks.
My academic planner and my schedule (too blurry to read). I like to keep my class schedule on hand, so that I know where to be and when. My planner is where I write down each school assignment that I am assigned, along with activities of significance (ie: club trips, birthdays). I would use my cell phone, but it is very old by cell phone standards, and incapable of recording notes for reminder purposes. I haven ever endeavoured to update my cell phone, because I am happy with what I have.
My book for Film History I.
My folders for Web Art & Design (orange), Film History I (blue), and Miscellaneous Materials (black). The black folder is for print-outs for the other two classes I have (folders unpictured), or for more frivolous print-outs that I might make.

Unpictured amongst all of this, and yet a content of my backpack nonetheless while I am out, is my trusty MP3 player. The reason it is unpictured is very simple, yet very significant: my MP3 player is the camera I used to take these images. The age of the mobile phone, and even the mobile music player, is falling behind us before we can blink. As Farman said, we are entering the age of the "mobile computing device". My cell phone may not be able to take pictures, because it is old by cell phone standards, but it is very capable on its own.
[This is a terrible picture of me; it makes me look like I have a double chin.]