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[hotchick2121]

ok, my dorm doesnt allow any cooking, we have to go down to the cafeteria, but i find that i can cheat and use a coffee pot to cook stuff, eggs and such... really nifty when ur craving a midnight snack...

one of those hanging door organizers that has all the cool pockets, comes in handy,
and our bathrooms are a public use thing, so a small crate thing, to carry soap and such, is useful too...

i dunno, theres so much you need, but you dont need to bring your whole room, bring some pictures but not the whole photo box,
and dont stress to much if you dont have something, borrow your room mates' or steal it from that annoying jock down the hall until you can afford one for yourself..

have fun in college. its a blast...

[y4nzi]

definitely mini bar fridge and kettle are essential for those midnight snacks and cravings.
other must bring's to college:
- plug extender, you need more than 1 electrical socket
- extra desk lamp (incase the lightbulb blows)
- tissues
- general uni stuff, paper, computer, notebooks, pens, printer etc
- clothes-hangers (i forgot to bring any in my first year and had nothing to hang my clothes on - ended up going to walmart and buying them)
- a fan if you have no airconditioning in your dorm
thats all i can think of right now.

[Mordent]

Just finished my first semester at university (or college, as I guess you US folk would call it...), and I'd have to say I'm having the best time of my life. While I'd definitely thought of taking half of the things suggested here, I realised that my uni accommodation, like a good few others, didn't allow things such as kettles, microwaves, mini-fridges (basically anything you can cook or cool something with) in your room. Fortunately for me my room was literally adjacent to the floor's kitchen, so I didn't have far to go to get breakfast.

I'd definitely agree with people who suggest extension leads (particularly ones with a whole host of sockets on them, as you can never have too many sockets). If you happen to know someone who went (or goes) to the uni you're heading to, I'd definitely suggest picking their brains a bit. By coincidence, one of my friends (a year older than me), goes to the uni that I'm now at, so I have his experience to work off. It also helps that he was in nigh-on identical accommodation to my own, so I had a lot of first-hand experience of what counts as too much to bring for your room and what are the essentials.

To be honest, the main thing is making sure you can make do long enough to get anything else that'd make living more comfortable. No need to bring the kitchen sink, but think about what you regularly use at home and so what you'd use at uni. Also, for the love of all things sacred, make sure you pack any cables you need, as a friend of mine managed to forget the power cable for their computer. Not only did they not have a computer that was working in their room, it took up a large chunk of their desk space until they first went home to get it (about two weeks in).

Edited by Mordent, 22 December 2008 - 12:37 AM.