Things I should buy to use in college?

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: loki8481
noise-canceling headphones

A MUST HAVE IMHO.

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: loki8481
noise-canceling headphones

A MUST HAVE IMHO.

Specific brand or model you suggest?

 

[ballmode]

I hate cats too!

 

[KarmaPolice]

A GOOD COMPUTER CHAIR
A folder for each class
flip flops

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Brackis

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: loki8481
noise-canceling headphones

A MUST HAVE IMHO.

Specific brand or model you suggest?

Anything BUT Bose. You're better off getting IEM (in ear monitor) from ultimate ears, shure, or etymotic. Check these out http://www.ttvj.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=13_35

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Furyline
2 towels for showering
Different clothes if you are going somewhere with a different climate
Water bottle
A pillow & case(you might not get one with the room and if you do it probably sucks)
Duct tape
A good color printer (not a crummy free dell one)
paper for printer
A fan
A comfy desk chair

Just from looking around my room at stuff I would hate not having

Brita FILTER!
MP3 player for walking to class (very useful =))
Laptop?
Good headphones
Sandals/slippers for showers
Storage crates (put underneath bed)
FRIDGE (yes and then your room will become the alcohol room)
Floor lamps (central lighting usually sux)
Hampers

 

[Brackis]

What would a Brita filter help with exactly

 

[Nikamichi]

Fleshlights.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: Nikamichi
Fleshlights.

 

[Synth3t1c]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
The common sense to stay the hell away from drugs. Not counting alcohol and aspirin, of course.

how is weed different than alcohol except for the fact that it is illegal?

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: Synth3t1c

Originally posted by: MichaelD
The common sense to stay the hell away from drugs. Not counting alcohol and aspirin, of course.

how is weed different than alcohol except for the fact that it is illegal?

you can be tested for using it and it requires smoking for the most part.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Brackis
What would a Brita filter help with exactly

To filter the cigarette butts out of the beer from all the half-empty's around the dorm. Or you could use a spaghetti strainer, which would be cheaper.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Peanut Butter.

For the waffles.

 

[totalcommand]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
What should you buy? Hmm. Don't know if you can buy these. Let's say "Hope Fate Buys For You:"

The common sense to actually take your classes, learn something, pass everything.
The common sense to not get shiitfaced every night.
The morals to not rape the chick passed out in the other room after the other 435 guys raped her b/c someone spiked her drink AND took vids of it all.
The good luck to not get an STD from that chick from the other night that was in your room...or was it the stairwell?
The common sense to stay the hell away from drugs. Not counting alcohol and aspirin, of course.
The hopes that four years passes quickly.
The smarts to know that college is just high school with better looking women and that 99% of those folks you'll never see again. Just like HS.

Get in, have a little fun, get out. Without a police record or failing grades, and you will have accomplished your goal. Good luck, Jim.

wow you need to chill out a bit.

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: totalcommand

Originally posted by: MichaelD
What should you buy? Hmm. Don't know if you can buy these. Let's say "Hope Fate Buys For You:"

The common sense to actually take your classes, learn something, pass everything.
The common sense to not get shiitfaced every night.
The morals to not rape the chick passed out in the other room after the other 435 guys raped her b/c someone spiked her drink AND took vids of it all.
The good luck to not get an STD from that chick from the other night that was in your room...or was it the stairwell?
The common sense to stay the hell away from drugs. Not counting alcohol and aspirin, of course.
The hopes that four years passes quickly.
The smarts to know that college is just high school with better looking women and that 99% of those folks you'll never see again. Just like HS.

Get in, have a little fun, get out. Without a police record or failing grades, and you will have accomplished your goal. Good luck, Jim.

wow you need to chill out a bit.

I would agree with his advice actually. So many people are idiots in college.

 

[Brackis]

Anyone have a good backpack suggestion?

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: Brackis
Anyone have a good backpack suggestion?

I have a Jansport backpack, it does perfectly.

 

[LiquidImpulse]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Condoms.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

A good memory stick, they have replaced floppies (most computers at colleges are newer, and so won't have a floppy, though some may have ZIP).
Wait until after you get there for a semester to buy a laptop. Your perception of what you need may change.
A TV tuner card is only useful if you don't have a roommate. A roommate will almost certainly not want to use a computer as a TV and so there will be one in your room.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

save all your money for beer

if you have a top bunk, make sure you have something nice on the floor you can pass out on for the nights you just cant make it up there

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
A good memory stick, they have replaced floppies (most computers at colleges are newer, and so won't have a floppy, though some may have ZIP).
Wait until after you get there for a semester to buy a laptop. Your perception of what you need may change.
A TV tuner card is only useful if you don't have a roommate. A roommate will almost certainly not want to use a computer as a TV and so there will be one in your room.

Even if I have a roomate/TV, what attracted to me to a tuner card would be the ability to record shows so as to not waste time on things like LOST during the week and then enjoy them on the weekend.

 

[wkabel23]

Learn how to manage your time.

That's the biggest advice I can offer you. It IS possible to have fun at college and get your work done. Ignore MichaelD's pessimism as I can assure you what he said is very exaggerated, especially if you're going to a good school. Enjoy your time at college, your college years have the potential to be amazing.

Make sure you get your work done, it's easy to get distracted. If you get your sh!t done, you can have plenty of fun.

Also, go in with a good mindset. If you go to college thinking it's gonna suck and you can't wait to get out, etc. then you probably won't have much fun. Go in expecting to have some of the best times of your life but don't forget that college DOES require work.

 

[Brainonska511]

This was an interesting topic to post, something for myself to look at as I will also be heading off in the fall to college. BTW, where are you going?

 

[DigDug]

What do you suggest?
TV tuner card?
Termpurpedic topper for an uncomfortable bed?
Keychain flash memory?
etc....

Posts like these make me realize just how different life has become from only ten years ago. I was heading off to college in 1994, and having a computer was a big thing back then. I remember buying a powerPC because Apple had a computer store at college. What a fvcking waste.

I couldn't watch TV in my room because we only had cable in the main parlor. It forced the dorm to come together to watch popular TV shows. 100 people in a room watching the simpsons and the start of futurama. There'd be a bunch of us watching jeopardy. IT was a cool thing.

But I still wished I had a TV in my room back then. Of course, I tapped the cable line and had cable for a year before I was busted...

 

[Brackis]

I'll be at Northwestern University in the fall. I have a nice winter jacket ready