I’ll never forget the hours I spent as an undergraduate in the fall I began my thesis, wandering the aisles of the Staples near my college, picking out a giant 3-ring binder (in which to store the research articles I printed out), packs of index cards (on which to write summaries of each article), and a little recipe card box to organize them (this was genuinely my system. Did I think I was living in 1979? It was 2002!).