You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Sakchai Kaykaew/iStock/Getty Images Plus I love the beginning of the academic year. This feeling rests deep in my psyche. As a child in elementary school, I relished the time I spent in the stationery store (this was, after all, the 1960s), picking out the ruled paper, three-ring binders, multi-colored pens, and assortment of other school supplies I would need that year.