WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO COLLEGE COLLEGE ESSENTIALS

Yeah, all right. What's up vlog? Today I'm gonna be showing you what you need to bring to college. And I will be first, basically running you through a list of everything. And yeah, that's it. I'm not gonna have a second thing. I'm just gonna tell you the top items that you absolutely, at least according to me, need to bring to college. For those of you that are new to the channel, my name is Arlan, hi. This is my Snapchat. You can ask me questions there. I respond to everybody. And if I ghost you, I'm sorry. I go to Boston University. I'm going to be a junior in the School of Communication studying film. And yeah, let's just, let's chat about some things that you should have. Number one, this is called a shower caddy. I've been using this bad boy since freshman year and it is a beauty. It's got all these different compartments. You can put your tongue scrubber. I think this is an Orabrush, Orabrush? Yeah, Orabrush. This thing's dope. But yeah, the shower caddy is clutch. I just, in my freshman year, I would take it, just hang it on the side of my bed and use it every morning and every night. Really great thing to have. And I still use it even though I live in a house now because I share a bathroom and I like to keep my toiletries to myself. So grab a shower caddy. Number two, let's go into bedding. Starting with the small ones. This is called an eye pillow. You know, this is just like an eye mask, but yeah, grab an eye mask or an eye pillow because college, you tend to sleep really late, go to bed late and wake up late. That's just the nature of it unless you have an early schedule. So sometimes you'll be sleeping and it could get light out when you're trying to get your last two hours. So I would recommend one of these. They're great for naps as well because people don't tend to sleep as much at school. So yeah, those are nice to have. Moving on up in the price range, mattresses and pretty much your whole bedding frame if you're going into your freshman year, absolutely suck. So definitely invest in a, like I would say like a three or four inch memory foam mattress cover. There's some good ones on Amazon. I had like a decent one, but I wasn't too picky. And I mean, I am now, but freshman year I definitely recommend just because you got to sleep on that really uncomfortable like blue mattress. That's like the standard thing that they give you the big like **** you with. When you get into school after paying like 30 to 60 grand. Yeah, so definitely grab a mattress cover, but even more important than your cover or your memory foam is your blanket. I can't recommend this blanket enough. It's called the Sheiks blanket. It's actually made especially for athletes, but it's amazing. It's expensive. I think it's like $200. However, this thing with a Sheiks mattress or a Sheiks duvet cover on it is just heaven. Like I swear it's gonna improve your sleep like a hundred percent. Like it is so much better than any other thing on the market. And sleep is so important, especially at college because you need to have your brain working well and you need to make sure you're taking advantage of all those hours that you're not studying or yeah, just studying. But yeah, definitely check out Sheiks. I have, so I have the Sheiks duvet and the comforter. And I also have some Sheiks pillowcases because they aren't too expensive. You can find it at Bed Bath & Beyond or online. They do sell out pretty quickly, but they're the best thing out there. So check those out. Those are really awesome. Moving on from sleeping items and stuff like that. Oh, grab a water bottle, maybe a CamelBak. These are good. Maybe a couple because you're bound to lose one, but water, I'm a big advocate of drinking a lot of water to solve everything that you need help with, whether it's a hangover or if you're having trouble studying, you probably need to drink more water. Or if you're trying to wake up, actually, that's huge. If you're trying to wake up, this will lead into my next thing, but I always keep water right next to my bed. One, because it helps me sleep and two, because it helps me wake up. It's crazy. If I can't sleep, it's probably because I'm a little dehydrated. And if I wake up and I'm feeling tired, I usually take a few sips of water and crazy. What I do to make sure that I don't lose this thing, I clip it into my backpack. I just have a North Face. I've been using this thing since high school. I just clip it in like that and I haven't lost it for like a year. I think I lost one earlier, but yeah, this is good. So now, speaking of, let's see. Yeah, speaking of waking up and stuff like that, you're gonna wanna get some type of planner, but this, I promise you, is the best investment. Probably up there with the best thing that I can recommend for anyone, whether you're in college, high school, or beyond. This is a five-minute morning journal, which I've discussed in my morning routine video. And basically what it is is a little planner, a daily planner, where you're gonna write the date here. It gives you a nice quote. So this one is, use what talents you possess. The woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. So anyway, so yeah, it gives you the date. It gives you a nice quote by someone famous. I mean, a lot of them are from Italian proverbs or T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus. Then it gives you, as you can see, three things you're thankful for. Starting off the day with gratitude is a game changer. Just do it, try it. I could get into the psychology of it in another video. In fact, I think I might've in my morning routine video, but that is big. So three things you're thankful for. Three things that will make today great. And these are like your three to-dos that you know by the end of the day, whether it's a homework assignment or getting to the gym or meeting with a teacher or having lunch with that cute girl or whatever. At the end of the day, when you do your nightly part of it and you realize you've checked them off, it's a really good feeling. And then the last line, perhaps one of the most important, is your daily affirmation. And this is where you just remind yourself how much of a badass you are or how cool you are. The other cool thing about the five-minute morning journals is that it actually explains everything in the beginning. So I could tell you a little bit more about affirmations just from reading the explanation here. Daily affirmation, a statement of what you want in your life. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A daily affirmation is a simple statement that defines you as you want to be. Every time you write the daily affirmation, you prime your brain to start building this belief in your mind. So I'll just touch a little bit on how affirmations work just so you can start doing them. You don't need this to do affirmations. A good affirmation would be, I am confident and comfortable in my own skin. You write that down and you might not think much of it, but what happens is you write that down and then throughout the day, you're just gonna be more aware of the moments throughout your day that you actually do act confident and comfortable. And so even if you're someone who's normally shy or considers yourself shy or quiet, you're gonna start to notice and pick up more on the moments where you actually are bold, confident, at ease with yourself. And yeah, that's just a little bit on affirmations. Recommend the 5-Minute Morning Journal. It does even have a night aspect to it. Before I go to bed, I write down the three best things that happened today and then how I could have made today even better. And yeah, this thing is a game changer. Can't recommend it enough. Tied to it though are a big stack of note cards. These are just index cards. I have some more here. And no, I don't use these for flashcards. Flashcards are a thing of the past. That reminds me, for studying for tests and quizzes, that for general 100 elective courses, stuff like that, even higher level courses, almost I would say 90% of the time, if I have a term quiz or any type of quiz, somebody from a recent semester has made the exact Quizlet on Quizlet.com. Go on Quizlet, look up your class number, look up your professor, and there's probably a list with like 100 really detailed flashcards that if you study them and you start studying them the day of the first semester, like college usually divides tests into midterms, right? Especially the bigger courses. And you don't even have to make them. You just study them throughout the semester. It helped me get my Dean's List last semester when I started doing that. And it saves so much time because while it does help to make the flashcards yourself, to me, it's way more useful to take someone else's set and just start studying throughout the entire semester because it doesn't take that long to memorize, what, 50, 100 terms? And it puts you ahead of the class. It's awesome. So these, on the other hand, I use them in coordination with this five-minute morning journal. What I'll do is I'll take one card and write down the top six things that I need to do today, no more than six. Sometimes I'll just write two or three. I write them as if they're already done. So I say, I do this, or I have completed this. It just puts you in the right feeling that you've already accomplished it, which sets you up for actually doing it. That's kind of a wacky topic. I could talk about, that's more related to affirmations. Like basically when you say that you want to do something, it puts your energy in a position that you haven't done it. But when you say that you have done something, it puts your energy in the space of confidence and certainty that you can accomplish this because you already have, because you sort of feel like you already have. Anyway, I write down six things that I plan to do today. Then I go in and make sure that I take this note card and I put it in my pocket. And it's almost like every time I go in my pocket or feel near my pants, I'm reminding myself of the three or six things that I know I need to get done. These really are huge. So I have a ton of them. I haven't even, these will probably last me a couple of years, to be honest. But what else? Oh, here's a big one. Actually, I'm using it right now. This is an Amazon six foot phone charger. I have two of these. So I have two of them because I'm at home, but I have one right next to my bed. And it's really helpful because you can stay in bed and obviously, depending on how far your outlet is, if you're in a freshman dorm, this thing comes in clutch. And they're really cheap too, which is awesome. Also recommend getting one or two backup cords to just stick in your backpack. And even a backup cord for your laptop. I have a 17 inch Mac Air, Mac Pro, by the way. And I find myself plugging in and unplugging it so much from my room that I'm very close to just getting another cord for it because that would save me a lot of time when you think about it. So yeah, get the seven foot charger. That's a good call. And then let me see, I know I have one more thing. Yeah, very last thing for college, Beats wireless headphones. These are the generation one. I think they're at three right now. These things are unbelievable. Yesterday's video, or the day before yesterday, was about my Audible subscription, which many people thought was a paid promotion. It wasn't, I just legit recommend Audible to everyone. These headphones are gold. You can use them walking to class. You're gonna be doing a lot of walking from class to class at college. I go to BU, so it's more than others because it's in the city. But they're awesome, you just let them down. And really good for working out. And they sound really great too. So highly, highly recommend everything I just said. If I think of anything else after recording this video, I'll put it in the description and I'll write a little bit about it. But other than that, oh, you could get your 8AM stickers. They came out really nice. I like them, yeah. But anyway, if you're going to college, I wish you the best of luck this year. And Snapchat me, we can share party stories or whatever. Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, all right. That's it, I hope you guys enjoyed the video. And yeah, college is lit. ♪ Hey, you get the bag and fumble it ♪ ♪ I get the bag and flip it and tumble it ♪ ♪ Straight out the lot, 300 cash ♪ ♪ And the car came with a blunt in it ♪ ♪ Lil' mama a thot and she got ass ♪ ♪ That she gon' **** up her bag ♪ Yo, what's up, I just finished editing the video. And I forgot one last thing I think was really important. You really should invest in a pair of frat shoes, or maybe not invest, you probably already have an old pair of gym shoes that you can dirty up because college frats or college house parties in general, the floor is just disgusting. So definitely pick up a pair of vans. Vans are good, they're like 50 bucks, really cheap. Or Crocs, I don't know, anything ratty that you aren't really worried about spilling beer and who knows what's on the floor of a frat house. Yeah, reminds me of the basement story.