Dorm Survival: So what are you going to Eat?

9. Dorm Survival: What are you going to eat? Anyway?

So what are you going to eat at college?

Have you looked into buying that little card that lets you charge food at the food court?

Have you checked out the closest store and what they have to eat there?

Take sealed storage containers to keep your snacks in. If you seal and store your snacks there will be a lot fewer creatures crawling through your food.

How do you like to eat now? Do you eat Breakfast? OR just do late night pizza?

Do you grab a handful of trail mix to study with? Do you like dried fruit?

Just a chips and Salsa kind of guy?

Think about what you need to keep in the room to have food to eat. Consider how often you need to replace the supply. As you visit the store now keep an eye out for foods that will work for you at college.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

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Dorm Survival: Eats

8. Dorm Survival: Eats.

Eating is so simple. Right?

1.       You just open the fridge and grab what looks good.

2.       Your mom hands you a plate of your favorite food.

3.       Your dad takes you out for pizza.

No brainier right?

Now picture yourself alone in a dorm with an empty dorm fridge and one bag of your roomie’s chips. The last time you ate those chips your roomie threatened to bruise your teeth. Its 2 am. You are starving; no food opens for hours and you hope to be asleep then. You wish you had thought about having food on hand before you were this hungry.

Good idea to start thinking about food now.

1.       When you went on the college tour what food options were presented? Were you taken to a food court and told you could fund a sort of charge card? Or were there other options?

2.       What is your eating style? Do you eat breakfast? Snack late at night while studying?

3.       Consider having sealed containers to store your snacks in to reduce the sharing bugs and roomie trolling.

4.       How far is it to a store that sells what you like to eat? How can you get there?

Think ahead and plan to have easy access to you what you enjoy eating. Hungry at 2 am with no food is a drag. And 4 am is even worse.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

Dorm Survival: Shower

7. Dorm Survival: Shower.

Showering is a simple thing right? You do it often. You can even get up half a sleep and shower. Your bathroom door locks for privacy.  Your shampoo and towel are always in the same place, Right?

What if the shower is down the hall and lots of other people use it too?

Say, you wake up a little late and stagger down to the shower. Where is your shampoo? Body wash? You get the idea.

Thinking back to the college tour what was the shower like? Down the hall? Or will you be lucky enough to share a shower with only a few people in a room or quad? (I still would not leave your belongings in a shared shower. They won’t be there when you get back, or if you are lucky, only half gone.)

Think about what do you actually need to shower?

1.       Shampoo, Conditioner, body wash? Anything else?

2.       How will you easily carry everything? (Gives a new focus to soap on a rope?)

3.       What will you wear to the shower? Just wrapping in a towel is a cry to jokesters to rip it off.

4.       What is the shower stall like. Tossing your dry towel over the door is also a call to jokesters to move it and enjoy the fun.

5.       Remember the shower is a good time to wash out a few things and reduce time spent watching a washer spin. Wash out as you begin your shower and hang to drip while you shower.

Think ahead and plan to have easy access to you what you enjoy using for a quick, fun shower.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.

Dorm Survival: Exercise

6. Dorm Survival: Exercise.

Suggesting you exercise? Never. Not Me.

What do you enjoy actively with friends and family now?  

Swim? 1. If you enjoy swimming, be sure you take a comfortable quick drying swim suit.

2. Check the college website for how to get swimming.

3. Do you have to pay a fee? Obtain a key or code?

Basketball? Like to relax with a basketball. Take something you can play in and take or know how to scoop a ball.

Walk? 1 .Enjoy long walks.

2. Take rain and sun gear.

3. Walking shoes.  

Think ahead and to take with you for what you enjoy doing.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.