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DORM ROOM MUST HAVES
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items I’ve survived three years of university so far so here’s what you need to know brutally honest. Girl I don’t have to help you but I want to. So get your notebooks out
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Non negotiables
Non negotiables
I don’t care what fan you get just get one. You most likely won’t have air conditioning or the residence gets musty. Or you want to (garden) and need to blow it out a window so just get one.
Electric Fans
The lighting sucks in a dorm. You’ll have no clue what you look like in a normal mirror so get one of these. I’ve used it all four years of my degree it never goes out of style.
Ring Light Mirror
HAND HELD VACUUM. So our dorm had a vacuum but it was huge and industrial and was so hard to bring up the many floors to my dorm. If I were to go back get this. If you have carpet if you have old wood floors where dirt goes in the cracks and a broom ...
Handheld Vacuums
Look beyond my beautiful face and see the posters on my wall. I’m telling you it’ll feel like a prison if you don’t decorate. So get posters get anything for your wall. You gotta be there every day so you should wanna look at it
Posters & Prints - Desenio
Don’t mess with the water in dorms guys just don’t. You don’t wanna be sick. I know when there was an outbreak of something and then somehow the water was contaminated. I just would not mess with bad water because it’ll make you sick and that’s not f...
Brita
This isn’t an option to not have. You won’t want to walk to the dinning hall every single day. It could be raining it could be snowing you could just be tired. You need to keep some stuff to eat in your dorm just in case. You could also just get sick...
Mini Fridges
You need a full length mirror. Definitely optional but it makes my life 10x easier. It just feels weird not knowing how I look without being able to see the whole fit. What if I think my outfits killing it and then I look in the mirror and it’s not g...
Large & Full-Length Mirrors
You won’t have a shower in your room you will most likely have to use a communal one. It’s impossible to carry all of your stuff in your arms potentially dropping everything when you’re wet and that would just be embarrassing. This is something you w...
Shower Caddy
You will be exhausted. If your campus is big you’ll be getting 10,000 steps a day. A kettle for your morning tea or coffee will be a life saver. You don’t want to spend all your money at Starbucks because let’s be real you need it for residence fees ...
Electric Kettles
SHOWER SANDALS! Communal showers means foot fungus trust me you don’t want to be stepping into those showers without flip flops. And this isn’t just a me thing EVERYONE uses sandals or your the one giving the foot fungus so don’t be that guy. This is...
Women's Sliders & Sandals
Don’t trade comfort for anythinggg. When leaving ur dorm you might want to hang out in the common rooms to meet people or study and you aren’t fully going outside so slippers are the perfect inbetween. It lets you have a buffer between your socks and...
Slippers - Shoes: Clothing, Shoes & Accessories
Your dorm is small it’s smart to stay organized when school gets busy
Rotating Makeup Organizers
Guys the beds suck so bad if you don’t have a mattress topper I promise you not sleeping all year. It’s evil how bad the bed is without one. Like rock solid. Plz invest in a good mattress topper
Mattress Toppers – Pillow Top for Mattresses