subject: Facing The Harrowing Experience Of College [print this page] As you go off to college for the first time, you may feel big and important out there on your own. But don't get swamped. It can be overwhelming as you are unfamiliar with this territory.
The thing that makes it hard is that this may be the first time you have needed to provide for yourself. The quality rooms and facilities may vary between palace and slum.
Living the life of someone living in a dorm room is nothing like you are used to. The main aim of all is the same: to keep you dry and warm when it rains. All these activities together with your colleagues, tend to do a lot of rock.
The thing you will need before anything else is a method to store all your stuff. No two residences, and at least two colleges, the same. To get the most out of your college years - and you deserve it - you'll have to spend some energy investigating homes and colleges to identify where you will be happier.
You will need to do some late-night study sessions, so it wouldn't hurt to haul along a desk lamp. The thanks will come from the person in the room with you.
You will want to put a bathroom bag together to take all your stuff to the public shower rooms. Is it the underlying yawning tears of joy or indifference? What about the experience? For sure you should be able to breath again.
So, what should go into a toiletry set? All sorts of stuff. There's shampoo and conditioner, clippers, soap, and all manner of other stuff. It may seem very cool, but is also a great responsibility. Nobody will tell you what time you have to be at home, but nobody is going to wash the dishes.
Also, you will need to think about bringing food with you and methods for storing all of that food until you are ready to eat it. Learn a lot about living together, perhaps more than one residence, and independence gives can be very rewarding. The things you can have in the interim time period will make all the things you have worth while.
