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10 Practical Christmas Gifts For College Students

The best things in life come for free from your parents.

Allison Moorman

Nov 15, 2016

Stephens College

10 Practical Christmas Gifts For College Students

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Now that we are no longer kids, I feel like our parents and family are all but lost when it comes to what to get us for Christmas. Sure, cash is always great, but if your mom is anything like mine, gifts to need to be personal, not passable.

Here are ten things you might want to put on your Christmas list — they aren’t shiny new toys, but they definitely will come in handy when your broke again by January 1st:

1. Skincare Products

If you have your tried, tested and true products, you might as well ask for them for Christmas—it hurts a lot less to use a $25 bottle of toner youdidn’tpay for.

2. Greek Life Dues

Like many, dues aren’t something you just forward to your parents whenever they go live — paying for them yourself might get rough, so see if your parents might split the bill rather than having to foot it all yourself.

3. Amazon Prime Membership

For $50 a year, enjoy the best thing to happen to world since they put mayo in the jar.

4. Adobe Creative Cloud Membership

If your major has anything to do with graphic design, having the entire creative suite on your laptop is a luxury sweeter than Dunkin’s 99¢ happy hour. It is often cheaper around Black Friday, so definitely be hitting Adobe’s site before Target.

5. Durable Clothing/Footwear Purchase

Whether this be rain boots, a winter coat or sturdy book bag, now is your time to shine.

6. Car Emergency Kit

It only takes one time to make you wish you had it…I would suggest giving another, shall we say better, gift along with this. Alone it would feel like getting tube socks and a new toothbrush.

7. Charging Bank for Laptop/Phone

This sounds like the most mundane item, until you realize how much you actually need it. I’ll admit it, I sent the link to my mom as I wrote this article.

8. Conversation Starter Games

A good stocking stuffer and a great addition to a box of Franzia.

9. A ~Fancy~ Planner

Gone are the days of Mead planners—if you wanna look like an adult in this town, you have to get a planner that has a cooler aesthetic than you do.

10. A Watch

To wear during presentations, interviews and to just generally look like you’ve got somewhere important to be.

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The best things in life come for free from your parents.

1. Skincare Products

2. Greek Life Dues

3. Amazon Prime Membership

4. Adobe Creative Cloud Membership

5. Durable Clothing/Footwear Purchase

6. Car Emergency Kit

7. Charging Bank for Laptop/Phone

8. Conversation Starter Games

9. A ~Fancy~ Planner

10. A Watch

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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