College Checklist

Buy your textbooks online, it's quicker, easier, and cheaper than buying them on campus. The only reason to buy a brand new textbook is if it's a new edition that you actually need. Most of my classes haven't required the book for at least a week, so you can sometimes wait until classes start to find out what books you really need.
 
Agreed....If by rare elaborate drawing, you mean a penis transformed into an object or an animal. Like the all famous penis giraffe.
 
god bless this girl,

1) also bring a shit ton of extension cords and power adapters, since theres never enought outlets in a dorm

-frisbee, one golf club (wedge), more money then you think you will ever need, clock, backpack, somewhere to put your dirty clothes,

2)if your rooms big enoughf get two fridges we did and it worked amazlingly, a alachole fridge and a food fridge, we threw a brown sheet over our beer fridge so it pretty much looked like a table/shelf, no one knew we had a second fridge and if ra's need to search your room thell never find it

3)get a christmas tree too for christmas time, we had a huge christmas tree in the middle of our room covered in payboys, great conversation started,

4) also if you can try and get with your ra if she good enough looking, it works wonders till you guys dead things between the two of you

5)dont get a microwave, its a pain in the ass but it give you an excuse to be social ( i tohught it was a stupid idea at first still sorta do but whatever)
 
get a flaski got a flask from my GF for christmas and its legit for parties....in US probably even more then in europe since drinking laws are a lot strickter there.....
 
Dont bother with books. I didnt buy a single book this year and got mostly As and Bs. Theyre mad expensive so just learn how to study for exams and youre set.

Youre def gonna want plenty redbull/monster/rockstar and at the least instant coffee but a cafatiere is always better. Just to help you out of bed after a heavy night.

Fooooood! Cant stress enough how important decent food is. You get sick to shit of the same stuff over and over so get a bit variety on the go.

Comfy bed. Youre gonna send a lot of time in it so make sure its amazin!

TV aint necessary but it makes terminal hangover days a little more bareable.

As much clothes as you can cram in a room. Means you can stall wash day for ages then do like 8 loads in one go. Less time washing = more time drinking, playin sports, chillin, whatever else

Do your room up a bit. Ski posters, lamp on a table, big ass speakers, rug etc Then people will want to hang in your room and chill.

Mirror. This is important so you can check what you look like in the morning before sprinting off to class and not realising when you past out last night your "friends" drew a massive cock on your face with a sharpie. Not a mistake you make more than once.

Always keep something close to your bed if youre gonna chunder. When you blow chunks in your trash can and forget about it your room will instantly smell like aids. Not fun!

Ive not figured this one out yet but you need something to get rid of girls in the morning. Its almost inevitable that (at least once) you'll get way too drunk and bite the chubby bullet. Theres nothing more annoying than waking up in your own bed with some chick the size of a vending machine that looks like something you would draw with your left hand. Youre gonna want to get her out and quickly before anyone notices!! Mates will never let you forget...
 
yea except according to every company that buys back books...the value drops at least $100 per book after it's been touched by anyone. I was required to buy a $200 math book that we used twice, then according to our book store, it was worth exactly 75 cents at the end of the semester. So you gotta be smart....i sold it on ebay for $230.
 
If it is the school book store, they also determine the price by the amount they have in stock and how many they need for next year. They ended up valuing my book at zero cause they didn't have the class next simester and no one would buy it from them.

But you actually sold it used for more than you payed for it at the bookstore? That seems fishy to me.

And the book companies would never say that it drops 100 dollars because books cost under that all the time. They would be more likely to use a percentage drop like car companies do when they tell you the % drop in value by taking it off the lot.
 
get a seat that you can turn into a bed, or get a regular bed and put a mattras vertically between the bed and the wall, thats a great sofa and saves a lot of space when someone comes over....
 
yea i know perfectly well how the school bookstore works, it makes sense, but it kind of screws over the students.

And how i sold the book for more than i paid? The wonder of Ebay. Apparently someone really needed that book. It was a last second bid war between a few people, which fortunately for me, they unknowingly jacked the price up.

and i also know that they wouldn't say it drops 100, i was just using an example rather than going out and figuring out the average value percentage drop for all my books from last semester.
 
i dont thinks books are nessesary for every calss if its your first semster play it safe and get your books but then atfer that just go with the flow i A'ed so many classes where i never even opened up the book once or the teacher didnt even use the book, after your first semester just play it by ear and see how it turns out
 
yeah thats exactly what you have to do. you can either lose some money and sell it back to the book store, or keep the book and sell it later for more. i was super lazy so i just sold my book back to the store. but the buy back prices werent that bad although they didnt accept some of my books cause they said they wouldnt need them next year
 
Definitely an underrated item:

Bed risers.

Then you can put much more shit under your bed. Like bed boxes.
 
Fuck desktops, just get laptops. You want to be a baller so you need a netbook and a macbook / or nice Asus notebook.

You need a desk, your space will determine all this.

You need ritalin/adderall, and lots of it.

You need ear plugs to go to bed when you actually want and a vibrating alarm or some shit.

A coffee table to be used for various purposes is nice to have also, but you may not have room.

IKEA is your friend here, but Wal-Mart is too. Cheap is key here, because most of its going to be treated like shit anyways. IKEA is pretty damn expensive, but you can have a swag looking place with their shit.

You need to avoid the cops unless you want to just complicate college and life in general / make your parents come down on you hard. Cops are everywhere, and there are people actually at college to learn.

If you do bring a desktop, you should obviously have an LCD screen, and it should be as small as possible. No full size towers are neccessary unless you are pimping out in a house.

Oh and fuck dressers, just buy filing cabs or get them from a business who are getting rid of old ones, use them to store your clothes.

Condoms seem to be required because eveyrwhere you go, sex is there. The laundromat, the anywhere you name it....chicks are there, and there are chicks who will be easy.

Be wary of jumping in to relationships with strange girls you really don't know. They are strangers yo, just cause shes a 36C doesn't mean shes mentally qualified to be what you are looking for.
 
this puts you on another level expecially if you go to lacrosse practice after 3 bolws in this thing
 
a lot has already been mentioned like earplugs, a mirror those are key. - dont even bother buying textbooks till youve at least gone through a month of class and know which ones you'll actually need to use or else it will be a waste of money. - comfy things to sit on are also pretty important. i had this movable pillow chair type thing which was probably my favourie part of the room. - A CAN OPENER! and put your name on it! - fabreeze and some sort of disinfectant wipe
 
VERY IMPORTANT POST REGARDING BOOKS:

Buy them you will need them. However, there is a way to maximize profits/minimize loss when you are done with them. The trick is waiting to sell your book until the beginning of the following semester. Show up to your local book store with your books and find an aisle containing a book you have. Wait until someone comes to purchase your book from the book store, then swoop in and offer to sell your book for 10-20 bucks cheaper than the book store is selling it for. You save hundreds of dollars this way without having to sell your books back to the store for less than they are worth.
 
beer bong, and some condoms. You will want both. Maybe a bong in there as well, and make a spoof so you can blaze in your dorm.
 
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get used to carrying a pocketknife... and im not talking for protection and shit but it never fails you are hanging with friends and someone gets a package from home and no one has a knife to open the damn thing and get at the munchies while you are high so you destroy the box and contents trying to open the fucking thing.
 
I am heading to college in about 20 days or so, but I know a bunch of you are already there. Anything that you wish you would have brought? something you need that you didnt bring, or something you brought that you highly recommend (something that is getting a lot of use)

 
if you are living in a dorm bring one of those crazy saucer chair things or just a comfortable computer chair... most of the time dorm chairs fucking suck.
 
absolutely. we had just about everyone on my floor watching/playing super smash brothers every single day.
 
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