Are you going to Missouri? I was reading their reslife website...check this out!!

What is the color of my room?

Unfortunately, we can't determine the color of your room in advance. You may paint your MU residence hall room in one of the approved paint colors — equipment and paint will be provided free of charge. For deeply pigmented colors, there is a fee and re-painting will be required. See the Painting Policy for more details.

PAINT YOUR WALLS? Wish we had that :)

Other items you need:

Surge protector plug bar
First Aid Kit
Your insurance card
Handheld vacuum (this came in SOOO handy for my slob of a roommate :))
Stamps
Sewing Kit

Good luck :)

They can paint their rooms...I've never heard of such...how fun!!!

Don't forget your Social Security card (you'll need it if you get a job, even on campus)
I was a big fan of Ragu Express--its as easy and convenient as Easy Mac (same company I think)
Make sure your shower bucket has holes in the bottom so water doesn't sit in it.
Bathrobes and flip flops came in especially handy for all those fire alarms that went off in the middle of the night.
Pictures!!!
I know its been said, but TONS of quarters--if your school has an ID card/debit card that you can put money on to do laundry/eat on campus and stuff...this is WONDERFUL!!! Quarter machines always break and are out of quarters.

Set of dishes including coffee mug and traveling coffee mug for classes
I WORSHIP COMMAND HOOKS! they are the best things ever...if you have a Container Store near you, go check it out, it's AWESOME!
Yay for surge protectors and whoever beat me to the ear plugs suggestion is a genius...it took me until sophomore year to figure that one out ::rolleyes:

Yay! Thanks guys, most of these I've already added to my list. I'll prolly go shopping for everything next week sometime...

Also -- I'll be moving into AKL, not a reshall... It is cool that they pay for you to paint your room. I doubt AKL will cover that, but I'm pretty sure I can still paint my room. Good stuff...

Keep em comin' guys! Thanks much!

-Matt

This may be a little over the top...

When my (much younger) sister went to college recently, I made her a couple of Emergency Kits in plastic tool boxes.

Medicine Cabinet: aspirin, Pepto, Benedryl lotion & caps, Alka Seltzer, Neosporin, Band Aids, alcohol pads, Q Tips, condoms, Claritin, Robitussin, Tylenol Sinus AM & PM, decongestants, Vit C, athlete's foot powder & spray, and packets of hot spice tea.

Basically all the stuff you would normally get from Mom's cabinet!

And a Tool Chest: small hammer, very thin nails, tacks, lots of kinds of tape, Super Glue, variety of over the door hooks, stain remover, the Command Adhesive hooks, sticky Velcro (A MUST!) dots and strips, screwdriver kit with regular & Phillips heads, glue sticks, etc.

Quarters are a must! Our dorm always ran out of quarters so we had to stomp around in the snow outside to other dorms on our side of campus to find quarters at 3 in the morning. Such fun....

I wish we could have painted our rooms.....oh wait, the leaky toilet a floor above us probably would have ruined the side that was wall, the other side was brick!

Depending on the type of wall you're going to have, if you want to put stuff on your wall, I suggest buying that white sticky stuff to stick it on with. The walls we have at Valpo are some white brick and tape comes off them sooo easily.

Wait are you moving into your fraternity or into the dorms?

At any rate, what about paper for your printer? Dryer sheets, sticy tack (the stuff that you use to put up posters, pics whatever on your walls). Those little mini tool kits come in handy - I still don't have one, but I've always lived with someone who does. :)

I really really hate sticky tack. Sometimes when the year is over, you go to take down your posters/pictures and the sticky tack has turned weird and gummy, and it won't all come off from the back of your pictures or the wall. If you use a large piece of colored sticky tack, it can also discolor the wall.

Instead, I use the Command adhesive strips for poster hanging: they're made especially for that and don't hurt the poster or the wall if you pull them off right. I've used plain old tape on photos and never had a problem with the wall, actually, if I pull the tape off slowly.

That's a good point, we were only supposed to use the white kind.

Oh I thought of something else. For laundry, Shout makes these things called "Color Catchers", that you put in the laundry with your clothes and they supposedly collect all the loose dyes from the clothes so your other clothes in the load don't get dyed. They look like dryer sheets. Sounds like a good thing for in case you forget to seperate your whites from your colors.