<p>USC’14 from NYC here.</p>
<p>Don’t pack anything unnecessary; all that you really need are clothes, sheets, and your laptop. You can buy everything else once you arrive… if i recall correctly there were shuttles to target at the beginning of the year. I ended up using zipcar with my roommates (I was also in a birnkrant triple) and we drove up to burbank and bought furniture from ikea and a tv from best buy. Your son is going to love the triple; it’s a huge amount of space, and usually the kids on the floor that dont live in triples come over to chill and watch movies and stuff so your second room becomes a sort of lounge that people come to socialize in (only if you want to, though.)</p>