the ONLY college dorm list you'll need

here's everything you actually need for college. don't listen to any other videos, they're not real. okay, my credentials, why should you trust me? i'm a rising sophomore, Penn State. I lived in, I lived in the suite with a jack and jill style bathroom, meaning two people lived over here connected by a bathroom to me and my roommate. So four people, four girls in a suite. Okay, let's run this list. 1. fan. you've heard that everywhere else, you might think it's BS. Those dorms are not well regulated when it comes to heat. Buy a fan. Buy a woozu fan, or as my roommate called it, an uwu fan. Hangers. No one talks about that. The school does not provide you hangers. Buy your own hangers and buy bunch of them because whatever clothes you bring to college, trust me, in your free time, you're gonna go thrift at Plato's closet and you're gonna buy double the amount that's in your closet. 3. cleaning products. the school does not provide you cleaning products. Our school cleaned our bathroom once a month. We're girls. That wasn't enough. Get a vacuum if your school allows it and get a sweeper for hard floors. You're gonna need them. And get wet ones and get dry ones cause y'all are crusty and musty. Trust me. 4. laundry bin. Yeah, a laundry basket. I said it. You're gonna be mommy and daddy aren't around anymore. Get a laundry basket. If your laundry isn't within your dorm building, get one with wheels or get a backpack one. 5. laundry detergent and softener. Yeah, they don't provide that either. Go buy your own laundry detergent and buy a big jug. You're gonna need it. You're not gonna do your laundry for two weeks and you're gonna need a lot, a lot of laundry detergent. And get softener cause we don't want your clothes to be musty. 6. bed risers. You want to be cool aesthetically? Get bed risers. Never heard of them? They're to uplift your dorm. A lot of dorms have qualifications on how high you can have your dorm beds. I have no idea. Like they really, they don't, you know, fall out of bed. They don't, I promise. Um, mine were about this tall, lifted my bed really high. Had to jump to get on it. With that being said, buy an ottoman. Know what an ottoman is? Probably not your first college student, like everybody else. An ottoman is just literally a stepping stool that usually has storage in it. Cute aesthetic for your room. Period. 8. mattress topper. You're gonna want a mattress topper. Memory foam. Those things are unforgiving and they are like sleeping on a Flintstone bed. Is that still a reference or am I too old? 9. shoe rack. Yeah, a shoe rack. No one wants your shoes laying around the door. Put them on a shoe rack. Now, this one might seem weird, but get a doormat for your dorm room because you're gonna have a ton of people in your room for a semester. A ton. And you don't want them dragging in the dirt so you don't have to break out your vacuum and your little sweeper and clean it all up. So get a doormat. 11. shower drain cover. Get something to cover that, especially if you're a girl. Your hair and all your roommate hair is gonna be going down that drain and it's gonna clog. You're gonna have to call maintenance. Maintenance can be a little scary, especially if you're a freshman. Just saying. Buy something to cover that drain. 12. shower caddy. You have communal bathrooms? Get a shower caddy. You're gonna need it. You're not carrying your shampoo, your conditioner, your face wash, your body lotion, your shaving shit all the way down to the communal bathroom. You're just not. So get a shower caddy. 13. shower shelves. If you have bathrooms within the dorm, a lot of indoor showers do not have shelving. Where are you gonna put your shit? 14. brita. Get a brita. Our dorm did not have clean water in it and we were constantly filling up a brita and it's 3:00 AM and you're thirsty. You're not walking all the way down the hall to the water fountain. You're gonna go right inside your dorm fridge and grab that brita. 15. bed sheets (NOT WHITE). I got white sheets my freshman year and I wish I never did that. Do not get white sheets. I don't care if you think they're trendy. Guess what? I'm moving into an apartment this year after my freshman year and I'm getting black sheets. Take it from me. Do not get white sheets. You're gonna want tan and you're gonna get dirty and one day you're gonna want to go to sleep. Your white sheets are going to reflect that. Do not get white sheets. 16. other types of shelving. All the random things I would just have in the dorm, other types of shelving. We had a snack cabinet that I brought because we had so many, so many snacks. So many ramen, chips, Cheetos, crackers, gummies, candy, Hershey bars, you name it. We had it. Cereal. We had it all on the snack shelf. Because where else are you gonna put it? You're not. Like I said earlier, if you're gonna raise your dorm bed, get shelving and stuff for underneath your bed. No one wants to see all that out in the middle of the door. Put it underneath your bed. Also, another thing you should get if you're putting stuff underneath your bed, a bed sheet to cover the bottom of your dorm bed. They sell them on Amazon. They're pretty cheap and inexpensive. Like, it's literally just like a curtain for the bottom of your dorm bed. Get it. It's kinda cute. 19. curtains. And if your dorm doesn't have curtains, you do not wanna be woken up by the sun. Go buy some curtains. Some blackout curtains. Yeah. 20. extension cord and power towers/outlets. Yeah, you're gonna want an extension cord and, hmm, probably a tower because there's like three charging ports in an entire dorm. That's not enough. You have to charge your phone, your AirPods, your computer, other things like. Come on, come on. If you made it this far in the video, follow me because I'm a college student too, so I share my struggles all the time. It ain't easy out here, bro. Okay, wishing you luck.