<p>-Backpack (pens, pencils, highlighter, laptop, notebook, and a blinder)
-Wallet
-Chapstick
-Keys (dorm room and car)
-Phone</p>
<p>Books, Notebook, Pencils, Backpack. Sketchbook: you never know when you will be inspired.</p>
<p>Advice from a professor . . . </p>
<p>(1) Whenever you go to a meeting with a prof or other school official, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS bring a pencil and paper. It drove me nuts when students came to advising sessions or to my office hours unprepared.</p>
<p>(2) Pay attention to what the prof says about the textbook. While many of the above posters say they have never needed their textbook in class, my students often did. We often worked through difficult passages (in my intro philosophy class and others), or worked through problems (in my logic class). I always told my students whether they would need their books for the next class. This isn’t unique to me or to my discipline, by the way. </p>
<p>(3) I think a small stapler is a great thing to carry with you. In a class of 40 students, I might get 8 papers that had been stapled. The rest of them were held together by some sort of faux origami. Totally ridiculous.</p>
<p>All depends on the class if you need your materials or not, but I would carry what you have plus a calculator for a math class and a cell phone if you have one. Besides that you’re set.</p>
<p>My backpack has my laptop in it and usually little else, usually a book or two but it’s generally little paperbacks. I try to remember to carry a pen but I never use it besides for sign-in sheets in classes that check attendance. If I had to carry heavier stuff I could always come home between classes and switch things out so I don’t have to carry everything at once.</p>
<p>My purse, however, is a different story. 
The other day my mom was making fun of me for how much stuff I carry in my purse, and I was like, “I totally NEED everything in here,” and as I said that I was rummaging around for my wallet and pulled out a pocket edition of the new testament. Forgot that was in there. D:</p>
<p>A messenger bag with my notebooks/texts/pens/books.
Keys/ID
Phone</p>
<p>That is ALL I carry when I’m on campus during the week, on the weekend I will only carry my keys/ID/Phone. If I go off campus I’ll add my wallet to the messenger bag or bring a purse.</p>
<p>I have a big LL Bean backpack that holds a lot but I only really use all that space when I’m heading to the library. I carry pens/pencils, calculator, my water bottle, keys, phone, notebooks/folders/binders for whatever class I’m heading too. I rarely bring my laptop to class. I also have a mini umbrella that generally lives in the smaller pocket… Ah, Ohio weather.</p>
<p>-Backback (laptop, textbooks, notebooks, binder, pencil/pen/eraser, stapler, calculator, umbrella)
-Cell phone
-Student ID</p>
<p>It differs depending on the class.
I’ve never had a professor tell us we had to bring our book(s) to lecture except for my lit class, math classes and art history class, but it was really up to the student in the end if they wanted to bring the book(s).
They sometimes will announce after a class to bring your book(s) for the next lecture or not to bother brining it.
You can bring a laptop to lecture courses if you want, but usually it just ends up being a big distraction. I only bring mine when I have a big break between classes so I can do work and type up notes and whatnot. I’ve had some professors flat out tell us no laptops allowed in class, which is understandable in some cases.</p>
<p>If you have professors that want you to bring all required textbooks to class and you have several classes in one day it’s a good idea to leave a few textbooks in the trunk of your car and go back and pick up the one(s) you need.</p>
<p>You rarely see kids lugging heavy backpacks around.</p>
<p>As for the other stuff…
carry extra pens/pencils, loose leaf paper and scantrons (only if you have classes that use scantrons for tests).
Carry cash for vending machines because sometimes the cafe’s close early and some vending machines don’t accept debit/credit cards.</p>
<p>A spiral for each class. Pens, highlighters, altoids. my acct, math, and speech class require books. History doesn’t need one in class. International business isn’t using it anymore. It depends on the class.</p>
<p>BACKPACKS! And iPods, cell phones, and perhaps laptops in them.</p>