As a student who sees too many big blocks of texts and numbers in class, my BuJo contains places where I can doodle, put my thoughts down on paper and add designs I find beautiful. It’s a reminder that my world is not just grades and deadlines printed in boring black and white.

By the end of the year, most high school students have collected a lot of T-shirts from various activities they participated in throughout the year. The problem is that most people don't end up wearing...