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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 3 Dorm Room Essentials [Watch (HLS stream): 3 Dorm Room Essentials](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/gx8mn6xW.m3u8) (1:26)  _Published 2016-08-16. These are the items your student's dorm room needs in order to be comfortable._ --- Jul 27, 2023 8:37 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [New Zealand College Student's Body Discovered in Dorm Room Nearly 2 Months After Death](/video/D2loEve0/) ### New Zealand College Student's Body Discovered in Dorm Room Nearly 2 Months After Death [Dorm Room Dinner Hacks: Rice and Bean Bowl](/video/zigIlaWf/) ### Dorm Room Dinner Hacks: Rice and Bean Bowl [Dorm Room Dinner Hacks: Carrot and Ginger Soup](/video/yb311rag/) ### Dorm Room Dinner Hacks: Carrot and Ginger Soup --- ## Transcript If you're sending a kid off to college, these are the three things you must buy for the dorm room. The first one is a mattress topper. My son told me the other day he'd get rid of his backpack before he got rid of his mattress topper. Dorm room mattresses are very thin, very hard, and not always entirely clean So a foam mattress topper, a feather bed mattress topper, they have some egg crate ones. They're available at every price point, but they make that bed a lot more comfortable for anyone to sleep on. Another thing we think is a real essential, is a big pillow that can help make that Dorm bed a lot more comfortable. The dorm bed is really your kids oasis. It's where the hang out, where they study, where they read, where they get to know their brand new roommate and having a big pillow like this, a big square one, or one of these that are more like a bed rest pillow are going to be much more for your kid when their sitting there trying to study. A third item that we think parents need to send their kids off to college with is a personalized first aid or medicine kit. This can be put into a nice container like this or just in a Tupperware box, any sort of plastic box. You know what your kid needs. Whether it's a stomach remedy or a headache remedy, when your kid gets sick the first time it's gonna be 2 am. It won't be 10 o'clock in the morning. And rather than calling you or getting into a panic they'll just pull that box out and in it will be the kinds of remedies or first aid things that they need. 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