Dude, where's my DRIVE?

I 'somehow' managed to lose my 8GB Transcend MP3 USB flash drive, loaded with lecture recordings, academic documents, and non-academic voice recordings somewhere. And with this term coming to an end, plus I thought I needed not backup the contents of the drive very often, this is not good news at all.

I suppose I will just have to do without all that helpful information (and tool) for what's left of this term...