hi welcome back to the back to school series this video hopefully is also not going to be too long
um i don't know how i'm feeling about the red lips um i'm always nervous when i use red lipstick on
camera especially if it's not matte because i'm like what if it gets on my teeth anyway so today's
video i'm going to be speaking about today's video i'm going to be giving you a red survival kit what
you need to bring to university so for context which is important in this video i lived in a
catered res so the city has two residences um you can live in a catered one or in a self-catering
one the catered ones is you get the food at the place so they cook for you there's usually a
dining hall or if you don't live in a race with a dining hall there's usually a res within walking
distance that has a dining hall and then for the south cajun one obviously self-exp explanatory
you cook for yourself you make your own meals have stove a kitchen a fully equipped kitchen
so that's the difference and i lived in a catered one which means that i did not need
to bring um stuff for cooking like parts and like groceries and stuff like that so i think basically
the main tenet of this video is going to be the fact that i underpacked for university and
i ended up having to buy some things which i could have easily brought from home but
either way okay if you do live in a catered dress i think it is important to get a fridge you we are
allowed to get bar a bar fridge um so even if you aren't going to cook for yourself i think
that is important because you can keep in water to make sure you always have cold water you can
like buy fruit to get fruits from the dining hall keep them in there um if you get takeaway
whatever you can keep it in there and stuff so i think it's important i didn't get one but um
yeah by the time i realized that you know what i really actually need a fridge i only had like
maybe three months left of university and i was like what's the point especially since this year
i'm gonna live um in a situation that already you know has a fridge or probably will have a fridge
so i was like i don't need that um but so yeah if you live in self-catering obviously you would need
different things from what i'm gonna suggest in this video you would need more you need to bring
like more cups and plates pots pans um groceries spices and things like that but i didn't need
to bring that um but i do think living in even if you live in a catered dress you need to bring some
stuff so like cups plates spoons forks because you might get take out or you
might get something from a dining hall and you don't eat there and sit there and maybe decide
you don't want to eat it in the like box that they give you you want to put on a plate if you get
yeah if you get take out or if you buy cool drink or something you might need a cup so i didn't
bring those stuff because i was like i'm gonna be in a catered dress i don't need any of the stuff
um but yeah that was that of me did not do and i ended up well i stole a plate from a friend but
then i needed to buy uh the rest of the stuff like a tumbler i needed to have then when i came back
home i took like spoons and forks and stuff like that um so yeah that's the context so very very
important thing to be able to survive student residences especially first tier
student residences which if you're in first year that's probably what you're going to be placed in
is the shower stuff the bathroom stuff you need to have flip-flops um to make sure
um yeah i think that's self-explanatory you need to have flip-flops to get into the shower don't
ever go into the shower with your bare feet you need to have a shower caddy so that you can carry
all your stuff from your room to the showers um i ended up buying one of those um yeah to like
put all your stuff that you need in the shower so that you're not carrying stuff in your hands
and you're not carrying them like in a plastic bag which is what i did for like the first week
until my shower candy came in um yeah you need to bring all your essential stuff your toiletries
and then for stationery stuff you need you need to bring your stationery um i'm going to speak
more about this in another video in the back to school series where i'm going to be speaking
about the organization system and like yeah how to basically stay organized i think you really
do yeah you really do need stationery and then for your living situation in your room decor is like
not essential but i think it really really helps like i would want to live in a place where i feel
you know good i feel like my space looks good i feel comfortable like i enjoy being in this room
so i and i bought a lot of stuff last year so i had like led lights and a tapestry that
i bought um from xi'an um i had fairy lights i like decorated my my pin board and stuff um
i tried to like get a good like color scheme going on in my room i think things like that
aren't essential but they really really help um just with like your mental your mental your
mental health to be able to look at you or maybe it's because i'm a liberal because i
like things to look nice so i'll just be sitting on my bed i'm like yeah my room yeah it's a vibe
oh you need a washing basket obviously the annoying thing is that so i live in tangwell hall
if i didn't say it in this video already um then there's only one laundry room on each
floor so like you literally have to drag your laundry basket all the way to the other side if
that's where your laundry room is that's kind of annoying so i don't know well someone said
that they do make laundry baskets with wheels i think i think that would be super cool to have
um well obviously most people aren't going to be able to get that so yeah you need to learn to
basket with your staff and then most importantly i think because you're living in a community
basically with other in community with other students it's very important that you are you're
trying to be nice to people you try to be sociable so when i lived in tower hall i found most of the
people there to be extremely nice like no one has ever rude to me or anything um and we had a group
chat and most of the times like people would be up asking each other for stuff all the time so like
can someone give me a thing of milk um does anyone have bread does anyone like
have coffee um can someone give me like deep heat or something like that you know um i need black
lip liner or something and people were always always super nice and willing to share with others
so i think yeah just try and be open as much as you can just be nice and people will be nice
back to you um clean up after yourself like obviously there are people who work there
who clean the spaces but they only do it like once a day and most of the time oh and on the weekends
they don't come in and i'm telling you that place becomes a big style because people don't clean up
like people would spill soup and just leave it on the floor or the microwave the noodles and they'll
just leave the microwave like that so it's really important to look after yourself like you're grown
you're an adult well most people are um you need to look after yourself clean your space
be nice to others around you um try to participate in the activities that there is um that your house
com will have in your rears if they have like online meetings or if they're like there's a
karaoke night try to participate because that's also another way that you're gonna be able to meet
people like when you first move in trying to see who's your neighbor who's on the left side of you
who's on the right side of you if you send someone across you make sure that you know all those
people you introduce yourself um usually there's like a what do they call them there's like a cc
for every like corridor so in those meetings like make sure you're active you're vibrant and even if
that's like not really your personality but first impressions matter a lot so i wouldn't say like be
fake but try to get out of your shell as much as you can just let you know be nice be relaxed talk
to people don't just like even if you're shy like i know a lot of people are shy but please
just try if you meet someone and they like don't talk to you and they just kind of down whatever
you know that might make a person not so willing to approach you the next time they see you
so yeah throughout the year you're gonna find other things that you need your needs might
be different from mine um but from my first year first year experience that's what um i think are
the essential things please like this video if you liked it i'm going to be doing more videos in this
back to school series i will link the playlist up above and you can check it out if you'd like to
i'm a university student i do uh videos based on lifestyle and student life um
last year i did like exam season vlogs i also just vlogged my entire year and i think it's
important if you want to have some perspective you could go watch them i'm going to link them
above also just to see kind of what university life is like especially during the pandemic um
yeah so that's it for this video thank you so much for watching i hope you enjoyed it
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