<p>I haven't really thought about what to bring to college besides my laptop and books and clothes. What else do you bring? Is it like moving into a new house and needing appliances and such?</p>
<p>Your brain. No really, honestly I don't know because I don't live on campus, but I suppose a mini fridge and microwave could be put in your room. Bed sheets, pillow, cd's, a small TV, bath towels, soap, shamppo, toothpaste, toothbrush, flipflops to wear in the shower so you do not catch any foot fungus from someone else, alarm clock, headahce medicine,etc</p>
<p>condoms and a blendere</p>
<p>Hooks. Not the kind that get you into competitive schools, the ones that stick on the wall but come off the wall easily, I forget the brand name. </p>
<p>And if you have to run cables for computers, wires for speakers, etc. - clips to keep them from getting out of hand and more clips to run the cable/wires around doors/windows if need be. Obviously, the need depends on how archaic the setup in your room is. </p>
<p>Extension cords. </p>
<p>Duct tape. Don't leave home without it.</p>
<p>A screwdriver (well one of each kind). A hammer. Your parents can probably bring these back home with them once you're set up although never understimate the social value of having the only screwdriver on your hall.</p>
<p>Dayquil. Advil. A thermometer. Bandaids. Neosporin. Pepto Bismol.</p>
<p>Magnets.</p>
<p>A message board.</p>
<p>An extra quilt to cover your bed. Your bed doubles as a couch. </p>
<p>Ear plugs. Just make sure you can hear the fire alarm. There are all kinds - you want to drown out your roommate's snoring, not someone banging on your door.</p>
<p>your pants</p>
<p>^ (optional)</p>
<p>Posters of your favorite boy bands. :P</p>
<p>Seriously though, ctnjpamom makes a good point. I would also recommend some kind of lock-box to secure especially private items.</p>
<p>Air fresheners are always a good idea as well. Roomates can be stinky bastages. You could be a stinky bastage..so it's good to have them.</p>
<p>Posters of my favorite boy bands. Hahaha. Except most of the posters I have are of girl-bands, save for the movie posters, and subway concert posters, and Dillinger Four, Descendents, and Propaghandi posters. Boy bands, are they?</p>
<p>I love posters, they make me forget that my dorm was designed by a famous prison architect. Duct Tape is the single most useful thing to have. Things I have used duct tape for: sealing the hole in my wall where hornets were coming in, holding up my broken shelves, taping a dormmate's door shut, making a mock crime scene in the lobby (someone was apparently murdered next to the pool table), attaching Christmas lights to the ceiling, computer cable management, retaping the room number above my door. Anyone else have a good duct tape story?</p>
<p>closet organizers, egg crate for your bed, milk carton boxes for storage, bed raisers, under the bed drawers for sweaters and such</p>
<p>fake id. liqour cabinet</p>
<p>Containers to go under your bed or in your closet.
A fridge.
A tool kit.
Bathroom stuff, including shower shoes
laundry stuff
printer, maybe
something to decorate your wall so it's not boring white.</p>
<p>You don't need to bring books. You can buy them there.</p>
<p>how can you not know what to bring? do you have any common sense? it wouldnt be the end of the world if you forgot something. im sure mommy would send it in the mail. GROW UP.</p>
<p>**** off. I'd rather know what to bring than to be kicked out for blowing fuses with a microwave and minifridge and burning the dorm up with candles and flooding the dorm with a fish tank. Excuse me for not being a grade A jackass and living in a dorm for 10 million years because I'm too stupid to graduate from college. The only time I lived in a dorm was for some crummy Gov's School I got forced into going to for music and lived in a dorm with just clothes and bed covering for a week. So until you become my surrogate mother and decide from just a question that I'm needy and dependent and sheltered, **** off. Kthx.</p>
<p><< flooding the dorm with a fish tank.>></p>
<p>At my son's orientation, the residence hall director said only fish were allowed as pets and if there was any question as to whether a specific pet was a fish, he would hold it underwater for 5 minutes. If it was still alive, you could keep it. haha</p>
<p>I don't know if anyone mentioned this already, but bring cleaning wipes. I have Clorox ones and they are great for cleaning up your dorm room because you don't have to have a bottle of cleaning spray. Just pull out a wipe, clean whatever it is that needs cleaning, and throw it out. They are especially useful if you live in a city--I'm right near a freeway in L.A. and my dorm room tends to get kind of grimy. You should also have an MLA handbook, dictionary, and thesaurus. If you can't stand flourescent lighting, bring normal lamps.</p>
<p>as you go through your day make a list of every item you use. track it for 2 weeks. then pack all those things.</p>
<p>Based on prior experience, if you are a guy bring your laptop, a printer, all wires needed to hook it up, clothes, a laundry bag, all your bathroom stuff including towels, an alarm clock, stereo or TV if you want it and roommate is not bringing, tools (screwdriver, hammer, scissors, and such). If you are a girl, just bring everything you own.</p>
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<p>Perfectly put! :D</p>
<p>pitures/mementos of home, yearbook (you may want to look at it), spoons, etc...FOOD...PLENTY OF CLOTHES 9enough so you can go w/out doing laundry for a while)....</p>