What Should You Pack for Your Freshman Year at Cottey?

This list contains suggestions on what you might need at Cottey. The rooms and closets are most likely smaller than at your home, so plan accordingly! If you have a roommate, you might want to coordinate the purchase and bringing of certain items. It may be more convenient to purchase some of these items after you arrive in Nevada.

Items Considered Necessary

• Address books, stamps 
• Alarm clock 
• Basket for shower items 
• Book bag
• Calculator 
• Calendar/daily organizer/planner 
• Clothes hangers
• Desk lamp
• Desk supplies
• Dresses/dress clothes (for Sunday brunches and special events) 
• Electric fan 
• Extension cords 
• Laundry supplies 
• Pillow
• Posters and pictures
• Power strips
• Quarters (for laundry)
• School supplies 
• Sheets (standard twin-size) and blankets
• Toiletries  
• Touchtone telephone- one per room (no 2.4 ghz cordless phones) 
• Towels and  washcloths 
• Umbrella 
• Wastebasket 
• White dress for Commencement and Convocation ceremonies 
• Winter coat

Items Recommended

• Bicycle
• Camera 
• Calling cards for telephone (or you can be billed by the Business Office) 
• Closet/shoe organizer 
• Curtains (sizes vary) 
• Dry erase board and marker (for door) 
• First aid kit 
• Formal dress 
• Radio or CD player 
• Raincoat 
• ‘S’ hooks and string/wire for hanging framed posters 
• Sewing kit 
• Shelves/crates 
• Sleeping bag 
• Throw rug 
• Tool kit 
• Videos/DVDs  
• White gummy poster adhesive such as “Hold It”

Items and Areas Provided

...for each student

• Clothes closet 
• Desk and desk chair 
• Dresser 
• Mattress pad 
• Twin bed (standard size) 
• Window shade and curtain rod (per window)

...in each suite

• Hot plate 
• Ironing board
• Ladder
• Microwave 
• Refrigerator 

Most suites are furnished with cooking utensils, dishes, irons, and silverware. Since these are stored by returning students during the summer, they may not be available immediately to first-year students.

...in each hall

• Computer suite with 8-11 IBM compatible computers with Internet access
• printers
• scanners
• CD burners
• News TV 
• Oven 
• Parlor 
• Recreation room 
• Quiet study room 
• Television with VCR/DVD room
• Trunk room for storage  
• Coin-operated washers and dryers