<p>My sibling part of class of 2009 seem to have only brought a large amount of clothes, though she was able to accomadate…</p>
<p>Figure out what clothes in your closet you actually wear, and only bring those.</p>
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<p>I found a TV a great way to get people into my room. I had an Xbox 360 and an N64, and our room was the hang-out room of the floor for the whole year, especially after our other friend’s futon broke (ours never did). It never hurts to have something extra if you have to space. This year I had a double that was actually two singles connected to each other so I had more space than I needed. Everything I didn’t use I just shoved under my bed.</p>
<p>If you are in a typical two-to-a-room dorm, don’t bring extra LARGE pieces of furniture. My first year I made the (sort of) mistake of buying and bringing a desk chair and side table with me to school. Got in my room and saw that there was NO place for it. I sent it home and the small plastic 3-drawer unit I had to have for the clothes that wouldn’t go in the school-provided dresser would only go in my closet. Now, some schools may be willing to move their furniture out if you insist on having your own chair or the like, but mine wouldn’t. Call residence life to ask if you are considering bringing your own furniture. </p>
<p>I said sort of because I will be using the chair and table in my semi-furnished off-campus place for the next 2 years. I saved myself some money down the road :).</p>
<p>I agree about the bowls, spoons, ect that you hve to wash. You won’t do it, trust me. My freshman roomie had a bowl that she used for mac and cheese, but was also very busy with track and cross-country all year. Well she ate mac and cheese out of the bowl one day, got busy and didn’t clean the bowl for a couple of weeks, and then found mold in it when she did go to clean it. She washed it with bleach a few times if I remember correctly, and then didn’t use the bowl so much. </p>
<p>I have a few TV programs that I watch regularly, but don’t have a great deal of time for other shows, so I did like having my TV in my room…still do. I got into a couple of clubs, on campus work and greek life for socializing. When I have free time, TV is a nice escape from all of that and schoolwork. Definately don’t have one TV for each of you…seriously, you can’t have them competing with each other; no one will hear anything. Share, and if you can’t manage to share a TV, don’t share a room anymore.</p>
<p>i don’t understand the “minimal clothes” thing. do you just send the other clothes later or do you really only need three weeks of clothes?</p>
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<p>i was going to bring all my clothes with me along with shoes, underwear, soap, other toiletries, shower caddy, one sheet set, hair supplies, hair appliances, lotion, febreeze, oust, radio, laptops, purses, light jacket, note cards, pencils, pens, paper, that power cord thing, playing cards, camera, ipod, phone</p>
<p>i was going to have everything else sent including iron, mini ironing board, heavy winter clothes, more sheets, wall decorations</p>
<p>If you don’t iron now, you won’t iron at school. Keep that in mind when deciding if you want to fill your pretty limited space with an iron and ironing board.</p>
<p>haha, i used my desk to iron… just don’t burn anything.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be best to leave some clothes at home? If you’re traveling home for breaks or whatever, it would be pretty awesome if you didn’t have to pack as many clothes just to drag them all back to school a few days later.</p>
<p>Also, three weeks of clothes seems excessive to me, but I’m not accustomed yet to college life. I only have about a week and a half of clothes now. Should I perhaps go find some more?</p>
<p>^^^ If you are a girl, 3 weeks worth of clothes is probably best. If you are a guy, 1 1/2 weeks of clothing is definitely fine. </p>
<p>Don’t bring all your clothes…bring your favorites/what you are most likely to wear. Then when you go back home for a weekend/during breaks, you don’t have to bother lugging all your clothes back and forth. </p>
<p>And ironing is a waste of time. Don’t bother. (Unless you plan to intern in a business/law office on the side, while going to school full time. Or are obsessed with ironing).</p>
<p>If you’re going to college in a city especially, (or have a walmart near by) just remember: you can buy it when you get there!</p>
<p>^The drawback to that is that you have to move it all back out every summer. Don’t forget that a move-in is always accompanied sooner or later by a move-out.</p>
<p>My colleges of choice are across the country from where my family lives… needless to say, I won’t be going home every weekend, it might be MAYBE 2-3 months between each trip. Should I really only bring 3 weeks of clothes in this situation?</p>
<p>JB: you’re right, but you’d also have to move out things you brought from home in addition to moving them in. If you think you might need something but aren’t sure, wait till you get there and see if you need it, then you can always buy what you find out you need. </p>
<p>Or, for instance, I got a mini fridge for my room, but I didn’t want to move it out and my room next year will have a kitchen with a fridge, so I sold it on Craig’s List before I moved out.</p>
<p>Corryn: you will do laundry at school, so I don’t understand your question.</p>
<p>Woah… Sorry tlesc, momentary insanity. I wasn’t thinking, obviously. -.- Apologies.</p>
<p>A laptop lock. TOTALLY unnecessary. I think I used it… once.</p>
<p>Also, books for pleasure reading. Your school has a library.</p>
<p>I agree on the laptop lock, I didn’t even take it out of the package.</p>
<p>“Woah… Sorry tlesc, momentary insanity. I wasn’t thinking, obviously. -.- Apologies.”</p>
<p>HAHAHA it’s ok, it happens.</p>
<p>So laptop locks really are as useless as they sound? </p>
<p>What did you guys do to keep important documents/electronics safe? (other than locking your room of course)</p>
<p>On TV:</p>
<p>Don’t forget almost any TV show is going to be offered as 'free full episodes" on the show’s website. Check to see if any of the ones you watch are, and if they are then don’t bother bringing a TV. Plus your laptop should be able to play DVDs as well, and you won’t have to worry about that either.</p>
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<p>If you need to keep things safe and locked up, bring a footlocker/trunk. It doubles as a seat.</p>
<p>And I’ll be using my laptop lock, but only because I’m quite paranoid about things like that.</p>