Here are some helpful tips for new baby falcons-- we were roommates our freshman year!
Do:
- Look at your class’s Facebook page for helpful tips and updates
- Buy a Bentley sweatshirt
- Talk with your roommate over email
- Buy a holder for your ID
- Look for textbooks on Amazon
- Buy multiple pairs of flip flops
- Buy a suit
- Buy dorm room snacks!
- Join clubs on campus
- Arrive early on move in day
- Plan to go out and have fun
- Buy popcorn
- Find a TV show to follow during the week
- Buy an egg crate for your bed
- Get organizational items
- Buy a shower caddy
- Learn how to do your own laundry
Don’t:
- Continuously stalk people on your class’s Facebook page (it’s creepy)
- Buy everything that you like in the bookstore
- Talk to your roommate on move in day for the first time
- Wear your ID holder around your neck (THEY FALL OUT)
- Only look at the bookstore for textbooks
- Think you can walk the halls barefoot
- Wear a suit to class everyday
- Eat all of your dorm room snacks in the first week
- Think you can join every club and make all of their meetings
- Move in around noon, when everyone else is too
- Get “Protective Custodied”
- Burn the popcorn and open the bag in your room afterwards
- Become obsessed with Netflix and skip class
- Forget to buy sheets for your bed
- Think that everything will fit in your closets
- Think you can juggle all your shampoo in the public shower without a shower caddy
- Show up to school without knowing how to use a washing machine
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