<p>I only ask because most of the kids at my school who have a mac are arts majors. All the other kids who have one seem like they are in programs with fairly light workloads, and those who have PCs are in programs with lots of writing/need for PC programs.</p>
<p>Machiavelli and graphgraff-there’s a few different ways you can do it. I found that making a checklist and crossing things off only once they were packed was a good way to go.</p>
<p>Just write down the things that you use every day and make sure you pack those. But don’t freak out too much and overpack, because again, space is limited.</p>
<p>Also, remember that they WILL have stores in your college’s town, so you can probably buy anything you forget once you get there. </p>
<p>And there’s always the option of having your parents ship stuff to you. Kids up here get more packages the first few weeks of the semester than at any other time, IMHO.</p>
<p>They don’t have many stores in my college town though, Williams is in the middle of nowhere I am thinking about just shipping a box filled with everything.</p>
<p>I’ll just list what I brought to college. I’ve found kateapollo’s list helpful, but I certainly didn’t need to bring all that.</p>
<p>I brought:
toothbrush, toothpaste, towel
flipflops and shoes
about a week’s worth of clothes plus winter clothes (3-4 T-shirts, 2-3 pairs of shorts, a sweatshirt, a warm winter coat, a raincoat, underwear and socks, and 2 pairs of long pants. Go to the store and buy more once you get to the college)
a pen, pencil
a book for the plane
a hand-held haircut trimmer
my laptop
stuff needed for airplane (ticket, travel info…)
wallet
watch
cell phone
blanket and a pillowcase</p>
<p>I think that’s about it. The point is: Pack lightly! You can buy a lot of things at the college bookstore or at stores nearby. Of course, you should find out whether there are any stores nearby. There’s a Target by my college and I bought some clothes later. At the bookstore I found all the books I needed for classes and school supplies. I saw a bunch of people carrying so much to college–sometimes people brought 2 suitcases. I brought one suitcase and one backpack’s worth of things, and I’ve found that to be enough. You can always ship stuff later if you need to, but it’ll probably be costly. My advice is to bring only the things that you’ll definitely need. Ask yourself before you pack anything: Do I really need this?</p>
<p>I am just packing up all my crap from my first year and just wanted to tell everyone, for the love of GOD do not pack all that worthless crap you are thinking of bringing because it ‘might’ be useful. </p>
<p>Things I wish I had: Scissors, some kind of blade (swiss army knife with corkscrew). More pairs of shorts and jeans, More pairs of underwear (when they run out, you HAVE to do laundry), packing tape (better than duct)</p>
<p>Things I wish I had not taken: Not so many big sweaters (take up lots of space), Lightbulbs (never used, and a pain in the ass to store over the summer), too many pairs of shoes, too many T shirts that you wear at home but soon find are too crappy for college, </p>
<p>You will end up buying lots of clothes, lamps, lights, personal items, plates, mugs, basically everything that makes life comfortable…So dont bring all of that crap people have listed above. </p>
<p>I brought a small medical kit with bandages, advils, tylenols, sewing needle, etc. which turned out to be useful.</p>
<p>I just brought a week’s worth of clothes, so that the luggage isn’t too heavy. There was a Target close to my school so I could buy clothes there.</p>
<p>I move into my dorm in 68 days…so it’s still a ways off, but it’s getting here.</p>
<p>Thankfully, I’ll only be about an hour and a half away from home, so if I need anything from home, it’ll be easy to get. Either my parents will come up and visit and bring it, or I’ll go back home for the weekend and bring it back.</p>
<p>My older brothers had it better though. They went to college in town, so were only 10-15 minutes away from home if they needed anything at all.</p>
<p>bwm-I think it’s more of a “check and see if you’ve forgotten anything you need” list. No one is suggesting you take everything on that list…you’d need a quad all to yourself.</p>
<p>Okay, I made it through the whole thread, taking notes along the way.</p>
<p>One thing I plan to send with my boys is a set of little drawers we’ve had for years that we used to organize the little tiny toys, etc in their room. There are three different size drawers, from large enough to hold a roll of duct tape to smaller drawers with dividers that make them perfect for paper clips, etc. I think that will nicely hold a lot of the smaller items we feel are needed from the checklist.</p>
<p>Something to add though…iPod charger, cell phone charger, laptop charger, etc. Even though you CAN charge your iPod through your computer it’s more efficient to use a wall charger. Plus you can still listen to it while it’s charging that way. (Although you obviously couldn’t move around if you were listening with headphones/earbuds, but if you have speakers for it you’re good.)</p>
<p>Oh, and swim goggles are on the list, but I didn’t see swimsuit!</p>
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I am thinking about just shipping a box filled with everything.</p>