<p>I second everything that was mentioned above. If you have a private bathroom (or connecting) bring a scented spray for obvious reasons… also, some kind of disinfectant like lysol will come in handy for when your roommate gets sick and you don’t want to catch anything by touching door handles and any other shared items. I never wiped anything down in front of my roommate in case she got offended or thought I was a super germaphobe, but I can also tell you that I never got sick this past year even though she was sick at least a few times. </p>
<p>Bring medicine… ALL kinds of medicine. I’m prone to headaches so I stocked up on tylenol. Bring cold medicine, tissues, and general things that you have at your home’s medicine cabinet. You don’t want to be sick and be forced to run out to CVS on a cold day. </p>
<p>Bring dry foods that you KNOW you like and don’t buy too much. For some reason I thought I would eat lots of canned soup and microwavables and everything pretty much went to waste because I found out that I hated canned soup.</p>
<p>About the alarm clock - I used my cell phone and set the alarm ringtone to low beeps - loud enough for me to hear, and not loud enough to disturb my roommate. Don’t worry too much about that though because even if she is disturbed, too bad! Setting your alarm and waking up for class is obviously going to happen whether your roommate likes it or not and she will get over it. I never had a problem with my roommate my freshman year but my roommate this past year would toss around in bed and sigh dramatically and it angered me. I had all morning classes, hers were all afternoon - no wonder. It was just as annoying for me to walk in at 3 p.m and she was still in bed and it was dark in the room because she turned the blinds. </p>
<p>Hope that helps</p>