What to bring to campus
Equipping Your Dorm Room
Print this page for a handy checklist.
Your residence hall will come equipped with the following items:
- Wi-Fi
- student-run coffee bar (Kratz-Miller-Yoder connector)
- lounges: vending machines
- washers and dryers
- vacuum cleaner / broom
- bike racks (outdoor)
Check out individual dorm pages to get ideas about how you might want to arrange your room.
Essential stuff to bring:
- alarm clock
- laundry basket/bag
- laundry soap
- coffee mug
- plastic bucket to carry toiletries to the bathroom
- hair dryer
- bathrobe
- backpack
- desk supplies
- wastebasket
- memo board and markers for door messages
- bed sheets for a twin, 80″ mattress
- blanket
- pillow
- bedspread
- towels
- hangers
- fan
- iron
- small medicine kit
- 3-prong UL-listed surge protectors
- small sewing kit
- sticky tack reusable adhesive (blue, yellow or white stuff)
Optional touches of home (but consider packing light):
- posters
- computer
- stereo / radio
- small refrigerator (no more than 3 cubic feet)
- video gaming system
- TV / DVD
- plants
- snack foods
- tennis racket, rollerblades, skateboards, etc.
Stuff you should leave at home:
- water beds
- lumber for building lofts
- air conditioner
- halogen, oil, lava, or salt lamps
- candles
- incense
- ceiling fan
- dimmer switch
- 2-prong non-UL listed extension cords
- multiple outlet adapters (the ones that you plug into the outlet to give you more outlet spaces – use surge protectors only)
- open coil appliances
- nails and screws (they will damage your room; please use sticky tack)
- LED light strips (these typically damage the paint)
- no pets (fish are OK)
- paint (you are not allowed to paint your room)
- firearms
- alcohol, tobacco, vapor paraphernalia and drugs
