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It’s time to prepare for the forthcoming college semester and freshmen students especially will want to have everything ready. This means loads of spending and buying. However, here are a few suggestions to consider - and perhaps not buy:

• That printer may not be necessary. Unless there is a daily need to print out lecture notes or some other regular call for hard copy printouts, a printer may be an item to remove from the shopping list. In a small apartment or residence room, it simply takes up space. When a paper assignment needs to be printed out and given to the professor, there will be numerous facilities on campus that do the printing for a small fee. This means that there is no need to have paper and ink on hand. The printing facilities will make hard copies in an efficient and professional manner. The presentation material can be bound if requested. There is no need to worry about buying ink and having the printer working well. Those concerns are left to the printing services.
• Consider buying a USB flash drive. It is an easy way to exchange information with friends and classmates. Some lab classes will require these flash drives. However, it might be an idea to wait. The costs are dropping. - The flash drive that I bought a month ago is selling for approximately thirty percent less now.
• Consider buying a colourful lanyard for the flash drive. This will simply make it easier to find. And, if it is ever lost, the colourful lanyard makes it easier to identify as yours. It is surprising how many of these flash drives are lost about campus. They are small and convenient - but also easily to lose. For example, these flash drives can slip out of one’s pocket or backpack without notice. Some people put a file on these drives that identify the owner and some contact information. However, when you put an identifier on a flash drive, remember not to place any sensitive, confidential information on that storage medium. In any case, a lanyard or some colourful cording is inexpensive but well worth having.

The college / university bookstore will be a madhouse during the first weeks of school. However, after all the initial course requirement material is bought, traditionally the school bookstores have sales to clear off the supplies and that includes some computer equipment and accessories. So after the initial start of school crunch, the bookstore will be clearing stock that they don’t want to be occupying space. That has been always a good time to buy, at a significant saving.

Catherine Forsythe

Tags: bargains, college bookstore, lanyard, printer, school, supplies, usb flash drive

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