<p>With our daughter's recent acceptance to the nursing school, we are thinking about getting some supplies for her dorm room for Xmas. If you want a personal printer in your room, must it be a USB connection, or could it be wireless? If wireless, how do you secure the printer?</p>
<p>How does cable tv work? How about tv size?</p>
<p>I've already started making a supply list. Feel free to add anything!</p>
<p>The dorm rooms all have a cable TV hook-up. You just need to bring your own cable. My D is in Tower B, and has a small (~19") TV. The bigger the TV, the more horizontal surface space you lose.</p>
<p>Each student has an Internet connection. I don’t think that students are allowed to set up their own wireless network. (I tried to find the written policy, but can’t find it now. But I do think I remember reading it in one of the handbooks. Can anyone else confirm?) So your personal printer would have to be USB. Again, the smaller the better. You might even consider coordinating with the roommate so there is only one printer in the room. </p>
<p>In fact, a printer isn’t even necessary since each student gets about a 900 page allowance for printing on the network printers.</p>
<p>IMO, a small flat-panel TV or compact DVD player would be a nice present if your D is a TV watcher. Easy to move with a small footprint. If your D is anything like mine, she will want to select most of her dorm things (linens etc) herself.</p>
<p>By the way, be sure to have a LONG (~20-25’) ethernet cable. Wireless connections in the dorms are somewhat spotty, so be sure that your daughter will be able to plug into the ethernet jack that will be in the most inaccessible spot possible for her needs. :)</p>
<p>Just a suggestion in case you were planning to also buy a computer monitor at some point. For only slightly more than what you would pay for a monitor you could get a monitor/TV combo that can double up as a small TV. It wouldn’t take up additional space and would have dual purpose. Disclosure: S doesn’t have a computer monitor–he uses his laptop for all his computer needs, and his roommate offered ahead of time to bring a small TV–which it turns out they never watch 
But just an idea…</p>
<p>I don’t know about other dorms but Tower has very poor wifi connection(except in the lobby). She’s gonna need the ethernet cable for sure.</p>
<p>Towers has wifi in the lounges and rooms right next and obove or below the lounge usuallypick it up. so you definitely need an ethernet cable for the room but they give them out free at the the computer center in David Lawrence Hall.</p>