The Joy of College: Essential Items to Bring Along

A hammock would be great and fun to study with. There were like tons of kids at my college who got little fold up hammocks and they would just whip it out and like tie it between two trees and like lay there and chill and read or they would study there. It was super relaxing to hang out in a hammock, whether you're reading, studying, or just hanging out with friends.

I also loved the idea of having a hammock for two people, so you can like hang out with your friend or boyfriend in it. We went to this river one time and a bunch of my friends were swimming, but one of the girls in our group didn't really want to swim, so she just laid in a hammock by the river and watched us all swim. It looked super relaxing.

A hammock is just great for tons of different reasons. I wish I had brought one with me when I needed medicine and a first aid kit. If you're like me and get sick sometimes, it's not fun to have to get on the bus and go to HB to buy some cold medicine. But if you already have those things with you, that would be super easy and great.

A first aid kit is also really helpful in case you get a little cut or something. You just want to throw on a quick Band-Aid, and it's super convenient to have one of those around. And then there's small collapsible luggage - I wish I had thought of that when I was bringing my actual luggage bag to college. It took up so much room in my dorm room, and it was just unnecessary because I didn't go home that much.

But later on in the year, I invested in a small collapsible piece of luggage that folds up to be like this big and then you can also unzip it to stretch it out to be like this big. So I could fit a ton of stuff in it, and it took up really low amounts of space in my dorm room.

A rain jacket would have been so helpful at the beginning of the year. If you don't have an umbrella, it's just nice to know for sure that you're not going to get wet at all. Especially if I was carrying a lot of things and the umbrella is just another thing to carry. And if the rain is like blowing at an angle, your rain jacket will just for sure protect you cuz you can zip up in it put on a hoodie and you're good to go.

Having a fan would also be super helpful, especially if you live in a dorm where you can't control the air conditioning at all. I made sure to bring lots of blankets because that's what I could do, but having a fan would have been even better. It gets really hot at night when it's like 10 o'clock or midnight, and a fan is just great to sleep with.

A bike would also be super helpful if your campus is big, like mine was. Sometimes it's hard to bike because campus can be crowded, but overall I think a bike would just be fun to ride around the city instead of having to take the bus all the time or ride my bike to class. Next year, since I'm going to be in an apartment which would be a little further from campus than my dorm was, a bike would be great to get to class super fast.

Overall, these are just some essentials that you should consider bringing along to college. Whether it's a hammock, a rain jacket, or a fan, there's something on this list for everyone. So if you have any other tips or tricks or things that would be cool to bring to college, let me know in the comments!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what's up it's Ali Goodwin and we're doing another College themed video today these are my favorite kinds of videos to make and today we're going to be doing everything that I wish I had brought to college in my freshman year that I didn't number one a printer a printer is something that isn't like absolutely necessary to have in college there's like going to be public printers and like the library and stuff and I'm sure you'll meet some friends with that own printers but that's something that you're going to be using all four years of college and probably after you grad graduate college so I think you just might as well invest in a printer it's just way more convenient and then like I would have to pay like 20 or I think it was 10 cents a page to print which isn't bad but like I was printing a lot of papers in college so it would just be cheaper and better just to invest in your own printer for all four years of college number two sunscreen so not everyone may need sunscreen but if you're pale like me then you definitely do and this is something I didn't even like think about bringing like I packed like my Essential stuff like a comforter and towels and clothes but like sunscreen who thinks of that you know um but in I go to UT which is in Austin and there was so much fun outdoor activities to do you can go like kaying and hiking and all this fun stuff and let me tell you I got real burnt sometimes so sunscreen is a must have three kind of going along with sunscreen is aloe vera um I went to this like bcan Festival in Austin and I got so sunburned like so sunburned and for some reason I could not find Aloe ver anywhere close to campus I went to CVS and they had this like weird blue aloe vera that was like not really aloe vera and like my campus store had like aloe vera lotion which isn't the same as aloe vera and it was just a real struggle um so I would suggest definitely bringing your own aloe vera if you're pale like me and you know that you're probably going to get sunburned one way or another but a picnic blanket so this is just kind of like a fun thing that I think would have been so fun if I had brought it um for two reasons number one Pickins are the best there's tons of like cool parks near my campus so it would just be super fun as like a date or with friends just to like go chill in the park and have a picnic lunch um and then number two it would be great to study with there's a bunch of like big Lawns on my campus where kids always sit out and study and I sat on the lawn one time to study and my pants were kind of like grass stained afterwards the was a little wet cuz it was like early in the morning but if you have a picnic blanket that just solves all those problems so I think that's like a great fun idea and great fun way to study is with a picnic blanket five also a thing that would be great and fun to study with is a hammock I think a hammock would be so fun um there were like tons of kids at my college who got like little fold up hammocks and they would just like whip it out and like tie it between two trees and like lay there and chill and read or they would study there or you can get like hammocks for two people you can like hang out with your friend or your boyfriend or whoever in your hammock um we also went to this like River one time and a bunch of my friends were swimming but one of the girls in our group didn't really want to swim so she just like laid in a hammock by the river and watched us all swim and it looked super relaxing so I think a hammock is just great for ton of different reasons and I wish I had brought one six medicine and a first aid kit um so there was one point in the year where I got a really bad cold and it was not fun to be like sick and have to get on the bus and go to HB to buy some cold medicine so if you just already had that with you then that would be like really easy and great also a first aid kit um just in case you get like a little cut or like a paper clip paper clip a paper cut or something um you just want to throw on a quick Band-Aid that's super helpful seven small collapsible luggage to go home so if you're going to be traveling from your college to back home and you need a little like luggage to take with you I would really suggest a small collapsible piece of luggage especially if you're staying in the dorm because at the beginning of the year I brought like an actual like luggage bag and it just took up so much room in my dorm I put it in my closet and it took up like the whole floor of my closet and it was just like so unnecessary because I really didn't go home that much um but then later in the year I invested in like this like luggage bag that like folds up to be like this big and then you can also unzip it to stretch it out to be like this big so I could fit a ton of stuff in it and it took like really low amount of space in my dorm room eight a rain jacket oh my gosh a rain jacket would have been so helpful at the beginning of the year I had brought an umbrella and if you have an umbrella you don't have to have a rain jacket but it's just really nice to have because then you just know for sure you're like not going to get wet at all um especially like if I was carrying a lot of things and umbrella is just another thing to carry or if the rain's like blowing at an angle then your rain jacket will just for sure protect you cuz you can zip up in it put on a hoodie and you're good to go nine a fan so I'm not sure where you're going to be living but I lived in a dorm where you could not control the air conditioning at all so I made sure to bring lots of blankets and then a fan um so I actually did bring a fan but a lot of my friends didn't and they wish that they had because I get really hot at night and it's great to sleep with a fan on you um or just if you have a lot of friends over in your room it gets hot because lots of people so a fan is great to have also blankets it's especially if you can't control the temperature in your room 10 a bike so a bike's not for everyone and it really depends how big your campus is but I think it would have been super helpful to be able to bike from one end of campus to the other my campus was pretty big sometimes it's hard to bike because campus can be crowded but overall I think a bike would just be fun to like go bike around the city instead of having to take the bus all the time or bike to class just because campus was pretty big especially next year cuz I'm going to be in an apartment which would be a little further from campus than my dorm was so a bike would be great to get to class super fast especially if you're running late in those 8 a.m. all right guys that's all for this week's video I hope you enjoyed it and let me know if there's like any other things you have that would be like great to bring to college because I'm going to be heading back to college in a month or two and like any tips or tricks or things that would be cool to have or just convenient to have at College I would love to know too so comment those below if you think of any um and if there's any other college theme videos you want me to make definitely let me know in the comments all right see you next week byehey guys what's up it's Ali Goodwin and we're doing another College themed video today these are my favorite kinds of videos to make and today we're going to be doing everything that I wish I had brought to college in my freshman year that I didn't number one a printer a printer is something that isn't like absolutely necessary to have in college there's like going to be public printers and like the library and stuff and I'm sure you'll meet some friends with that own printers but that's something that you're going to be using all four years of college and probably after you grad graduate college so I think you just might as well invest in a printer it's just way more convenient and then like I would have to pay like 20 or I think it was 10 cents a page to print which isn't bad but like I was printing a lot of papers in college so it would just be cheaper and better just to invest in your own printer for all four years of college number two sunscreen so not everyone may need sunscreen but if you're pale like me then you definitely do and this is something I didn't even like think about bringing like I packed like my Essential stuff like a comforter and towels and clothes but like sunscreen who thinks of that you know um but in I go to UT which is in Austin and there was so much fun outdoor activities to do you can go like kaying and hiking and all this fun stuff and let me tell you I got real burnt sometimes so sunscreen is a must have three kind of going along with sunscreen is aloe vera um I went to this like bcan Festival in Austin and I got so sunburned like so sunburned and for some reason I could not find Aloe ver anywhere close to campus I went to CVS and they had this like weird blue aloe vera that was like not really aloe vera and like my campus store had like aloe vera lotion which isn't the same as aloe vera and it was just a real struggle um so I would suggest definitely bringing your own aloe vera if you're pale like me and you know that you're probably going to get sunburned one way or another but a picnic blanket so this is just kind of like a fun thing that I think would have been so fun if I had brought it um for two reasons number one Pickins are the best there's tons of like cool parks near my campus so it would just be super fun as like a date or with friends just to like go chill in the park and have a picnic lunch um and then number two it would be great to study with there's a bunch of like big Lawns on my campus where kids always sit out and study and I sat on the lawn one time to study and my pants were kind of like grass stained afterwards the was a little wet cuz it was like early in the morning but if you have a picnic blanket that just solves all those problems so I think that's like a great fun idea and great fun way to study is with a picnic blanket five also a thing that would be great and fun to study with is a hammock I think a hammock would be so fun um there were like tons of kids at my college who got like little fold up hammocks and they would just like whip it out and like tie it between two trees and like lay there and chill and read or they would study there or you can get like hammocks for two people you can like hang out with your friend or your boyfriend or whoever in your hammock um we also went to this like River one time and a bunch of my friends were swimming but one of the girls in our group didn't really want to swim so she just like laid in a hammock by the river and watched us all swim and it looked super relaxing so I think a hammock is just great for ton of different reasons and I wish I had brought one six medicine and a first aid kit um so there was one point in the year where I got a really bad cold and it was not fun to be like sick and have to get on the bus and go to HB to buy some cold medicine so if you just already had that with you then that would be like really easy and great also a first aid kit um just in case you get like a little cut or like a paper clip paper clip a paper cut or something um you just want to throw on a quick Band-Aid that's super helpful seven small collapsible luggage to go home so if you're going to be traveling from your college to back home and you need a little like luggage to take with you I would really suggest a small collapsible piece of luggage especially if you're staying in the dorm because at the beginning of the year I brought like an actual like luggage bag and it just took up so much room in my dorm I put it in my closet and it took up like the whole floor of my closet and it was just like so unnecessary because I really didn't go home that much um but then later in the year I invested in like this like luggage bag that like folds up to be like this big and then you can also unzip it to stretch it out to be like this big so I could fit a ton of stuff in it and it took like really low amount of space in my dorm room eight a rain jacket oh my gosh a rain jacket would have been so helpful at the beginning of the year I had brought an umbrella and if you have an umbrella you don't have to have a rain jacket but it's just really nice to have because then you just know for sure you're like not going to get wet at all um especially like if I was carrying a lot of things and umbrella is just another thing to carry or if the rain's like blowing at an angle then your rain jacket will just for sure protect you cuz you can zip up in it put on a hoodie and you're good to go nine a fan so I'm not sure where you're going to be living but I lived in a dorm where you could not control the air conditioning at all so I made sure to bring lots of blankets and then a fan um so I actually did bring a fan but a lot of my friends didn't and they wish that they had because I get really hot at night and it's great to sleep with a fan on you um or just if you have a lot of friends over in your room it gets hot because lots of people so a fan is great to have also blankets it's especially if you can't control the temperature in your room 10 a bike so a bike's not for everyone and it really depends how big your campus is but I think it would have been super helpful to be able to bike from one end of campus to the other my campus was pretty big sometimes it's hard to bike because campus can be crowded but overall I think a bike would just be fun to like go bike around the city instead of having to take the bus all the time or bike to class just because campus was pretty big especially next year cuz I'm going to be in an apartment which would be a little further from campus than my dorm was so a bike would be great to get to class super fast especially if you're running late in those 8 a.m. all right guys that's all for this week's video I hope you enjoyed it and let me know if there's like any other things you have that would be like great to bring to college because I'm going to be heading back to college in a month or two and like any tips or tricks or things that would be cool to have or just convenient to have at College I would love to know too so comment those below if you think of any um and if there's any other college theme videos you want me to make definitely let me know in the comments all right see you next week bye\n"