<p>A List of Stuff for Transfers and Students</p>
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<li><p>A calculator if youll be doing any science or math classes. If youre in engineering or higher math, you should invest in a TI-89. Everything else, a TI-83.</p></li>
<li><p>Ear plugs if youre a light sleeper</p></li>
<li><p>Plastic, cheap flip flops for the shower</p></li>
<li><p>Duct tape. You should always have duct tape.</p></li>
<li><p>A toolbox, or at the very least a hammer and screwdriver.</p></li>
<li><p>A stapler. No one ever seems to have a stapler when you need it!</p></li>
<li><p>Bottle opener and cheap corkscrew. No explanation necessary.</p></li>
<li><p>USB Thumbdrive. You can get these really cheap online, and theyll save you countless headaches in the future. Plus, youll be able to share music and movies, etc, with your friends easily this way.</p></li>
<li><p>Printer. You dont need a printer (there are places to print on campus), but its much easier if you have one. I recommend a cheap black and white laser printer that way you dont have to swap ink cartridges every five seconds.</p></li>
<li><p>Fabreeze. Keep it in the bathroom if youre in FT, or just keep it for general use anywhere else. There will be a thousand occasions you wished you had Fabreeze.</p></li>
<li><p>Posters. Bring some cool posters to decorate your dorm room with. The "Beer Pong Constitution" poster was a big hit for me.</p></li>
<li><p>Computer. Bring a desktop or a laptop (or both). You could get by without a computer, but it would be hard. I havent met anyone who didnt own a computer in college.</p></li>
<li><p>A doorstop. You know, those rubber triangular looking thingies that you stick under a door to keep it open? This is a BIG ONE that a lot of people forgot. Theyre really cheap and are GREAT to have. If you can keep your door open with one of these the first couple days, you can meet everyone walking by right away.</p></li>
<li><p>A TV (?). If you like watching TV, the dorms have cable you can just plug into. If you have a nice TV too, your room could become a hub for group movie watching seshes.</p></li>
<li><p>A laptop lock. This is another big one I would never leave my laptop unlocked in the dorms, even if my door was locked.</p></li>
<li><p>A mattress pad. The mattresses in the dorms arent the best, so get a decent mattress pad to throw on top of it. Youll be glad you did.</p></li>
<li><p>Some plastic under-the-bed containers.</p></li>
<li><p>Noise canceling headphones. (I have Sennheiser HD-280s). Noise-canceling means that when you have them on and are listening to music, you wont be able to hear anything else around you. This comes in handy.</p></li>
<li><p>Towels, both beach and bath.</p></li>
<li><p>Pillows, comforter, sheets.</p></li>
<li><p>Any musical instruments you have. Some people leave these at home thinking they wont play them, then request that their parents ship them up a few weeks later when they realize how fun it would be to jam with floormates.</p></li>
<li><p>Your fall quarter textbooks. Get your textbooks online before you get here. Ill never buy a textbook from the bookstore again unless I absolutely cant find it anywhere else half.com and amazon.com have much better prices than the bookstore.</p></li>
<li><p>Football, frisbee, anything like that.</p></li>
<li><p>At least one formal outfit (suit for guys, etc.) Youll probably spend most your time in shorts, tshirts, and flip flops, but occasionally youll have a job interview or a class presentation where a suit is required. Everyone forgets this one!</p></li>
<li><p>Desk lamp. That way, you can turn the dorm lights off so your roommate can sleep while you stay up and start your homework thats due in two hours.</p></li>
<li><p>First aid kit. Youll probably wake up with bruises and cuts that you wont remember incurring, you crazy party animal you. Its nice to have some Neosporin at least to treat these wounds.</p></li>
<li><p>Ethernet cord. A wired connection to the internet in the dorms is much faster than the wireless one. (There are two ethernet jacks per room, so this isnt a problem.) Get a 15' cord at least. </p></li>
<li><p>Extension cords, and surge protectors. Youll need a bunch of outlets to connect your eight thousand devices you have (cell phone, laptop, light-up neon beer clock, blender, strobe light, TV, etc.)</p></li>
<li><p>Hangers. A lot of people forget hangers. Or you can just go to Kmart down the street and buy a pack for next to nothing.</p></li>
<li><p>Brita water filter. You save a lot of money using a Brita you wont have to buy bottled water. (Or, you can filter cheap plastic-bottled vodka through the Brita a few times, and it will come out tasting much better! Just dont attempt to drink water out of it again without changing the filter... or youll be drinking vodka water.)</p></li>
<li><p>Mini fridge. Coordinate with your to-be roommate about whos bringing one. (You only need one.)</p></li>
<li><p>A deck of cards. How else do you expect to play **** the Dealer, Up the River Down the River, or Kings Cup without cards?</p></li>
<li><p>Ping pong balls. For... ping pong.</p></li>
<li><p>Alcohol. Smuggle in alcohol the first day so that night after your parents leave youll get to be that guy or that girl who came prepared. Share it with all your new roommates and make some friends! </p></li>
<li><p>Shot glasses. (Get some cool ones.)</p></li>
<li><p>Camera.</p></li>
<li><p>Your laptop charger and cell phone charger. That would suck if your cell died while you wait for your parents to ship you your charger the first couple days of college.</p></li>
<li><p>Knowing how to do laundry. You should probably figure that out before you come to college so you dont look like an idiot.</p></li>
<li><p>A backpack preferably one that fits your laptop snugly. (They make backpacks with laptop sleeves... check those out.)</p></li>
<li><p>Speakers that you can hook up to your ipod or computer.</p></li>
<li><p>A fan. Sometimes it can get pretty hot, and the dorms (all, I think. FT for sure) arent air conditioned. (This is because we usually have a cool ocean breeze if you keep the windows open.) </p></li>
<li><p>Red cups.</p></li>
<li><p>A board game or two that can be converted to a drinking game, like Catch Phrase.</p></li>
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<p>This is a list I found on: Gaucho</a> Insider | Things you should bring to the dorms
Its for UCSB but I figure it could provide useful to UCSC students as well.</p>
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