<p>If you’re going away to college, I would check out Bed Bath & Beyond for many of these items. They have a service where you find everything you want in your local store, then they’ll send that list to the store closest to your college and reserve those items in-store until your arrival date when you are able to pick it up.</p>
<p>I would suggest an electric kettle/rice cooker in case you want to boil water for tea/ramen or want to make the quick, easy, and cheap meal that is rice. It’s the one item that I didn’t think of, but they’re incredibly useful and not very expensive.</p>
<p>Also: you don’t really need to bring condoms. Most schools either have policies that require your RA to have a supply of condoms for students on the floor, or a group (like Safe Sex Association or some other generic name) that supplies condoms if you ever need them. You can also just go to the local Planned Parenthood and they’ll give you tons of condoms for free whenever you want.</p>