Smell of Pencil Shavings
Do you remember when you had to get out of your seat and head to the stationary pencil sharpener near your classroom door? It might’ve been in another location at your school, but for us, we had to make our way to the front door to sharpen our pencils. Either that or purchase your own sharpener at the in-school store manned by sixth-graders for 75¢.
Regardless of how you sharpened your pencils, the smell of a freshly sharpened pencil is ingrained deeply in the minds of every millennial. Then you’d play with the pencil shavings and smudge the lead all over your notebook. Good times.