What to Bring to Exeter
Packing for Uni can be pretty stressful when you don't know what's essential and what's just taking up valuable suitcase/car space. Current MedSoc members have complied a list to make this process easier for you.
Essentials
Textbooks
Do not buy a medical dictionary as the MDU provide you with one at the freshers fayre!
In terms of textbooks, use the reading list as a rough guideline, but it really isn't necessary to buy that many textbooks. Realistically one of the anatomy and physiology textbooks listed would be the most useful to purchase as these are the ones that are in greater demand in the library.
- Camera - you're starting the best years of your life, document every minute
- Cleaning products
- Clothes hangers - more than you ever thought you'd need, halls don't provide any
- Deck of cards (that you don't mind not surviving the year)
- Doorstop - essential for a sociable flat.
- Dry shampoo - when you can't pass on an extra half hour in bed
- DVD's - for flat film nights
- Excess cutlery and glasses - where they all disappear to throughout the year is a mystery to us all
- Extension lead
- Facepaint
- Fancy dress - LOTS of fancy dress.
- Flat boxes for underbed storage
- Formal clothes for the Peninsula Winter and Summer Balls
- Loose change for washing- halls don't embrace contactless quite yet
- Mugs - for when you have your entire PBL group over for tea
- Painkillers and Lemsip- you won't find it within the pages of Tortora, but Freshers' Flu is real; be prepared.
- Passport photos for your MedSoc membership and club entry cards
- Plastic cups and ping pong balls - for the purposes of flat bonding
- Photos, posters, fairy lights - anything to make your room look homely
- Safety pins, sellotape, scissors, glue
- Slippers or warm socks - protect your feet from the cold, sticky student floor
- Smart work clothes for placements
- Speakers
- Toilet roll - never get caught short!
- White T-shirt that you don't mind being defaced with marker pens.
Textbooks
Do not buy a medical dictionary as the MDU provide you with one at the freshers fayre!
In terms of textbooks, use the reading list as a rough guideline, but it really isn't necessary to buy that many textbooks. Realistically one of the anatomy and physiology textbooks listed would be the most useful to purchase as these are the ones that are in greater demand in the library.