I bring a clear plastic envelope to my exams

It's the rule, outlined in several pages of exam guidelines. I've never had to do it before; I've never been in a school so strict. I guess they have to be, when we're only a few short years away from holding people's lives in our hands. The upperclassmen say you can't have pouches inside, either, and so I scatter my belongings inside, little pieces of myself on full view for everyone to see. I…