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Liz from Aberdeenshire is about to take a step into a wider world. But what should she pack into her satchel before she does?
I’m heading off to University in three months’ time and I know I’ll need to start getting some stuff together reasonably soon and I have no idea what I need to get.
Answer me this: what is the one VERY important, cannot-attend-University-without item that I should get my hands on before I move? Thanks.
When we trotted off the Ira Glass Academy For Advanced Podcasting, we made sure we were equipped with such dull-but-useful items as extension leads, kettle, our own bedding, capsule collection of kitchen knives, vitamin pills, mugs, teapot, rudimentary first aid kit, bottle-opener, spare bottle-opener, respectable dressing gown for early-morning fire alarms, fourteen dictionaries, photo montage, camera, crumpets, toy moose’s head, washing powder, fairy lights, flashing neon clock and a poster for a film that was halfway between populist and obscure. But what was the one item that YOU insisted upon? Tell Liz in the comments, do.
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July 5, 2010 at 4:52 pm |
A security blanket!
June 27, 2010 at 6:43 am |
A-levels
June 26, 2010 at 9:16 pm |
Oh yeah, and my George Foreman grill was brilliant, as we were too tight to buy a toaster, and actually quite liked stripy toast.
June 26, 2010 at 8:43 pm |
A few things for real. A washing basket is essential to hide all your dirty clothes since you wont have room to just leave them lying about. Also, if you have to do your washing at your halls then keep all the change you can. 20 pence and 50 pence pieces were always in short supply when I was living in halls 4 years ago.
June 26, 2010 at 7:21 pm |
Kettle and Toaster.
You can not eat condoms,
unfortunately
June 26, 2010 at 4:02 pm |
An Apple laptop computer 😀
June 24, 2010 at 11:32 am |
Corkscrew and tin opener. Don’t let on that you’ve got them though or they get borrowed and never returned. Open your bottles and tins using stealth.
June 23, 2010 at 8:18 pm |
A coffee maker and packets of pro plus
June 23, 2010 at 1:01 am |
I just graduated, and I found that the one thing I couldn’t live without were the furnishings/decorations I brought from home and my kettle. Regardless of who you are and what you’re studying, you’ll definitely want to bring posters, photos, lighting (fairy lights/lava lamps/plain old desk lamps), etc. – anything that can make your room feel less like a tomb – and lovely caffeinated beverages so you feel less like a corpse.
June 22, 2010 at 10:39 pm |
A sense of humour and ability to pretend you’re having fun even when you’re not/actually quite scared.
In more practical terms, my toasted sandwich maker made me v popular with friends and was an excellent alternative to pasta.
June 22, 2010 at 10:35 pm |
And painkillers, to help recover from the alcohol.
Also, washing powder. So you don’t have to ring your mum after the first night at uni and ask her to bring you some, because you may have possibly thrown up over yourself…
Not that that ever happened to me…
June 22, 2010 at 10:34 pm |
I just finished uni! Two things you won’t want to do without; ambient lighting and a laptop… and good knowledge of your local Primark for when you can’t be bothered to wash your underwear.
Enjoy yourself!
June 22, 2010 at 10:33 pm |
I’d say decent carrier bags are essential. You know, the heavy duty plastic ones with the wooden handles.
Firstly, your supermarket of choice will be miles away, and those tins and pot noodles get heavy after a while in those crappy bags you get now. And secondly, they also double up as laundry bags. Unless student digs as vastly improved in the last 15 years, you’re going to have to lug your washing quite a distance to the laundrette.
June 22, 2010 at 10:32 pm |
I’d suggest stuff to decorate your room cause halls are UGLY!
June 22, 2010 at 10:30 pm |
Nag, they supply condoms at uni for free! My desk was covered in them when I moved into halls!
June 22, 2010 at 10:22 pm |
Condoms and alcohol. All the rest is just extras.