Please, no "sloppy disks"

I made my way to a university in Labor, Delaware (not a real place), which, on the map, was in the southwest corner of Delaware. I was going to be taking summer courses there — looked like it was going to be computer science. I had brought an old laptop of mine (ASUS brand).

I got into a classroom where maybe 30 students had gathered for orientation, with everyone sitting around on the floor with their backpacks and laptops. I realized my laptop had gone missing. Not only that, but everyone else had laptops lying around, all identical ASUS laptops, but much newer than mine. I asked around a little, but nobody had seen my laptop.

The teacher, a wiry middle-aged man with slightly graying hair, was giving some basic guidelines about the program. One thing I heard him talking about — while I was searching for my laptop — was that nobody should use, and I quote, "sloppy disks" in this program. He explained that he called them "sloppy disks" because, first of all, it wasn't just floppy disks, but things like SD cards, jump drives, etc.; and because he thought it would overcomplicate our computer programming if we had to deal with storage media that could change drive letters. (It seemed unrealistic to me that you would willfully avoid such a commonplace issue.)