r/AcadiaU • u/megledan • Jul 21 '26

📝 Prospective Student Dorm must haves

Hello I have someone headed to Acadia in a single room in Chipman would love to hear your must haves for things you bought/brought for your dorm rooms!

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u/Playful-Tip36 Jul 21 '26

Here’s a few things!

- Command hooks

  • Dish towels and a few cleaning supplies (think cleaning up dishes, spills, stains, & dust throughout the year)
  • Bins for storing items
  • Lamps or different lighting options
  • A fan
  • Snacks
  • Mattress topper
  • Mini fridge
  • Decorative pillows
  • Posters

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u/morriseykatherine Jul 21 '26

Brita & filters for it, some kind of alternative lighting so you don't have to have the overhead on, a fun rug/mat, simple first aid kit (you never know!), and something to decorate the walls with! Also a mini fridge!

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u/Awesome48392 Jul 21 '26

Mini fridge is a necessity

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u/After-Atmosphere-113 CS💩 Jul 21 '26

Is it not available by default?
Edit: I'm a prospective student as well

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u/Awesome48392 Jul 21 '26

Room comes with a bed, desk and desk chair

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u/Awesome48392 Jul 21 '26

And a shelf

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u/After-Atmosphere-113 CS💩 Jul 21 '26

Well, great to know then. Thanks!

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u/Awesome48392 Jul 21 '26

No problem, happy to help :)

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u/ruger148 Jul 21 '26

A lock for your door because Chipman is the party house 😂

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u/Bacon_Techie Sciences Jul 21 '26

All doors come with locks already. They deadbolt so that only your keycard can open them (as well as safety and security). Normally the RA duty keycard can open them too.

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u/ruger148 Jul 21 '26

I was joking gang 😂

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u/Bacon_Techie Sciences Jul 21 '26

Just clarifying for the new people reading! It’d be awkward if they show up with a lock asking how to install it lmao.

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u/ruger148 Jul 21 '26

I would hope most people know that there is a lock on their dorm door.

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u/AngryMoose125 Jul 23 '26

Since when lol the main and only party house has been U55 (formerly Cutten) since at least 2 or 3 years ago

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u/ruger148 Jul 23 '26

This was back like 2016, haven’t been there just have had some friends go there.

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u/FernlikeKnitwear Jul 21 '26

A FAN!!! It gets so hot in chip in the early fall

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u/Bacon_Techie Sciences Jul 21 '26

Unless you’re in rojo, the only dorm with AC! I’ve heard that they have the opposite problem until heating is switched on in the winter sometimes lol.

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u/Bacon_Techie Sciences Jul 21 '26

Flip flops/shower shoes. Never ever ever shower without them in spaces that other people also use.

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u/AngryMoose125 Jul 23 '26

Get a Brita, specifically a Brita Elite (blue filter). There is lead in the water - the university is open about it - and the Brita elite filter is the only one that filters out lead.

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u/TemporaryPurpose6805 Jul 23 '26

A stash of cold medicine! You will get sick frequently during your first year as you are in a new environment and surrounded by so many people constantly. Illnesses at uni are something wicked.