 Hi cuties! Today I'm going to show you what's in my school bag. Okay, so as a graduate student at Columbia University, Teachers College, future therapist and psychology psychologist and PhD student, a girl can dream. My name is Nika. I think I just told you everything about me. I'm 28 years old. I live in New York City. I'm also a core power yoga instructor and if you are into like New York City vlogs, psychology stuff, the graduate school journey, make sure you subscribe to my channel. New videos every Wednesday and Sunday. So in today's video, let's get into what I bring with me to campus. So this backpack, first off, it's a Lulu Lemon Backpack. I got it from core power. As you can see here, and I got it from 50% off. So I think I paid like $50 for it. I think it's like usually a hundred or a hundred and 10. And I absolutely love this backpack. My favorite part about it is that it has like this little compartment up here where you can put like your laptop and your iPad and anything else you want to put in it. Honestly, like folders would be good to put in here. Anything that you like don't want to get bent. So I use that, I bring my laptop and I bring my iPad. Like one of the things I, people ask me the most, like what do I need for a graduate school and iPad? It's a lot of money, but once you can fit all of your readings on here and just bring it with you. And a lot of e-books are cheaper than like textbooks. Like I just, I highly, highly recommend an iPad if you're starting graduate school. So those are the first two things I bring with me. I'm heading to campus after I finished editing this or filming this video. So I'm just going to shut everything back in here. Some of that pocket. I always make sure to bring a water bottle with me. This is just a regular, small water bottle. I actually have been having issues with not drinking enough water. So I've been thinking of getting like hydro flags or just like a bigger water bottle in general. This pocket is so huge. And you see, there's like plenty of room in itself with my swallows. So I do think I can get like a bigger water bottle, but I always bring that with me. And then in this front pocket here, I like to keep like my keys, my headphones, my wallet, like stuff that I need easy access to. I just put in here and just really nice. I used to keep my lipsticks and stuff in here, but they would like get bendy and like not. It just, it just wasn't good. So I do not recommend putting your cosmetics in there, but it's really good for stuff that you just like need to like grab and go inside this big pocket, my favorite. So you get like two little compartments in here. And I like to keep my snacks in one. These are like my favorite snacks. I always get these from Trader Joe's. They're just like the marinated artichokes. They have these and they also have like a handful of olives that they make these little potches and they fit like perfectly in here. So I always make sure I carry one of those for a little snack because food on campus is quite expensive, but it was so funny in my blog. Well, you guys, I don't know if this video is going to come out before or after the blog. I honestly do everything I got in the blog, but I was with my friends and Caroline was making fun of me. She was like, you refuse to spend $15 on lunch at campus, but you will buy a $7 Starbucks coffee. And I was like, oh my God, read me, girl. And then this front pocket is huge. And it's honestly for the girlies that like to work out. You have this other like smaller pocket in the front. And I think that's where you should put like your sweaty gym clothes not bringing sweaty gym clothes to campus. But sometimes on Tuesdays, I'll be on campus all day. And then I meet my volleyball team on Tuesday nights. So sometimes I won't even keep like a change of clothes in there. And it's so easy. Like I'm so, so grateful that the backpack comes with like a little clothes pouch. Additionally, I always bring this and I just keep all of my electronics in it. So I have like my laptop chargers, my iPhone chargers. I do actually keep my lip glosses and stuff in here and like a hand sanitizer. Just like easy to use stuff. This is like a really cool device cleaner. So you can like spray and like wipe down like your iPad, your laptop, your phone. Really love that. Like I said, I keep my lipsticks and like lip glosses and stuff in here. Chargers and then even sometimes if I need to edit videos on campus, I'll throw in my external hard drive. Like so this is just like my miscellaneous catch all pouch. And it's so cute. I love the little evil eye. And I got it in grease with my doctor optometrist friend when I went with her and her family. So love having that little pouch. Then I also keep my little planner in here. These are just some planner stickers, but I keep my planner in here as well. These snacks, I have like this stackable like snack container. I don't think I have in my last vlog or any vlog recently, but I did a take talk of what's in my bag and I think I had the full one in there. So I'll throw a clip up there. But today I just have some blackberries. I usually keep like fruits and stuff in here, like stuff that's like squishy, you know, like stuff that if I put in like a little zip lock bag, it would not survive. So that's why I like to keep these little things for my fruit. Yeah, honestly, pretty much it. That's everything I keep in my school bag as a graduate soon. At Columbia University, I used to carry so much more paper before I had my iPad. So if you're starting graduate school, I would highly, highly, highly recommending an iPad. It's just it makes it so much easier to have all of your documents just in that iPad and you can read it on your way to campus. You don't like lose it or forget about it. Like everything you can just keep in your books. Like even like you can download them straight from Canva. Like there's a Canva app for the iPad and they can just download the PDFs from Canva and to your book library and just read them on the train. Like it has changed my life and saved so many trees. So that would be my recommendation for you. I absolutely love this backpack as well. So if you're looking for a backpack, I highly recommend this one. I forget exactly what it's called. Yeah, it just says really look at it. So I'm going to look it up. But I think it's like the everyday bag or something like that. But yeah, thank you guys so much for watching again. My name is Nika. Make sure you subscribe new videos weekly. And yeah, your girl will see you later. Love you. Bye.