I don't know why, but the Talking Heads makes good packin' music. Yeehaw.

[prosegoddess]

Poll Take my money, my cigarettes/I haven't seen the worst of it yetAnd how many books is it appropriate to bring? I've spoken to some of you crazy people who are bringing THREE CRATES of books (wow) and I swore that I was bringing no more than ten because I'll have text books and an entire city full of used bookstores at my disposal, but now that I'm packing my stack of books that I can't imagine living without

Comments

[greyyguy]

I usually only had a couple books with me because I knew I would be getting more, and had all the class stuff to read. 25 books isn't too bad, but how many of those are really nessesary, and how many will be replaced by must have books you'll read this next year? I left th ereferecen books at home (except a dictionary) scine the library would have much better stuff then I could bring with me.

Take shoes for what you will be doing. Walking (good weather and bad, and remember the snow), sitting in classes, going to bars or clubs, all that sort of thing.

[frannyglass126]

It's inevitable - almost anyone who has known me for more than a month starts calling me Manda. :) I don't know how this poll business works so i'll just comment...

Yes yes with the walkin shoes. Eh, who cares if you have a lot of books? Although, I found that the book that I suddenly needed desperately was never one of the ones I brought...

Bring stockpiles of anything you need for daily life. You'll be writing some paper and find that you have run out of toothpaste or hair gel or whatever. You don't want to run out to the store. So, just bring a load of shampoo or whatever...Toilet paper, too. Sucks to move in and have no toilet paper...

Camera. I'm biased, but it's good to have pictures.

Doorstop, very nice for Palevsky, unless you want to take apart your door-shutting thingy.

lotsa hangers. We have a lot of hanging space.

I'll let you know if I think of anything else...anything fun and silly you like to have around, too.

youve started packing. good times.

[ex_blutengel985]

twenty-five books??!! insanity. i had a feeling our classmates were taking a shitload of books. haha. im taking five (i think), and this includes the books im taking to read on my flight. chicago has the best bookstores ever i hear, so why take books from home to school? its ironic. we have enough reading assignments for our classes im assuming.

haha. ask me about shit you think youre forgetting. i rewrote and revised my things to pack list about seven times. dont forget the small necessities. like nail clippers and batteries. haha. and as for shoes, im taking seven pairs if i remember correctly. i tried to pack extremely lightly. difficult task, indeed. are you taking a lot of clothes? im not too sure if i should bring my entire wardrobe or not.

i keep hearing about this doorstop we palevskyers need. hmm. wont a shoe do?

Re: youve started packing. good times.

[just_hsut_me]

Check out Town Cleaners in Belmont. It's a bookstore, but it's in an old drycleaning location. It's right off of the L (red line

Re: youve started packing. good times.

[prosegoddess]

I own ... maybe five thing on that list.

I cannot drive you around. I will be a first-year and cannot have a car. You should know this. But Amanda will have a car! Hit her up for rides; I'm planning to whore myself to her in any and every way she likes for rides.

But I don't think I can wear her shoes. Her feet are smaller than mine.

I DO have a neat flag that you will see when I drag you to see my dorm room. Ua ha ha.

I have already purchased notecards. They're good for making frogs that hop, too.

I canNOT exchange my books. No no no. I would sooner exchange my children or my internal organs.

What's a tamogatchi?

Re: youve started packing. good times.

[just_hsut_me]

AOL is temporarilly unavailable. I was saying that some advisors are helpful and some aren't. And it depends on how demanding/forgiving you are. You're gonna have to advise yourself and get advice from other students to be honest. The advisor, my varying reports tell me, either help you to make your dreams come true or do everything in their power to make your life a living hell and sign you up for classes that don't exist.

[frannyglass126]

AOL is evil.

Elise, you CAN have your car, you know.

ah, only Alex has little enough feet to fit into my shoes!

Silly games and playing cards would be fun to have around, too.

Your advisor won't make or break you. Mine's a bitch from hell, but it doesn't really matter in the end.

[merryprankster]

I don't know what kind of shopping you intend on doing once you get to Chicago, or how you will be getting there, but here are a few items that proved helpful to me at school:

1. A non-florescent light of some sort (I don't know about you but I can't STAND fl. lighting).
2. Bowls and silverware for late night snacks.
3. Duct tape is always essential. So are good headphones to block out sounds of room mate's poor music taste (okay maybe that one just applies to me...)
4. Shower shoes, a shower basket, and a soap cover are worthwhile investments.

Just keep in mind that the co-op will sell pretty much anything you need. I could buy my entire dorm room at the Yale one.

As for books, I narrowed them down to single digits and then suddenly realized I hadn't even gotten to my language ones. Yeesh. Hope the shelves are sturdy :o)