The holidays are coming up fast-- Christmas, Hanukkah and other holidays that I am unfortunately unaware of. In honor of people getting together and exchanging gifts, I thought I would make a list of things that a college girl might want or need this holiday season.

Food

Food is always an acceptable gift, and if you are living on campus, eventually you are going to get sick of constantly having the same food. You will be very excited to go home and get your aunt's famous banana bread. If you are living off-campus and you aren't going home for the holidays, getting a gift basket from home with food in it is so great.

Fuzzy socks

I can't say this enough. Who wouldn't be excited if they got a pair of super rad fuzzy socks?

Gift cards

I'm not going to say that all girls love to shop, but I know I do and I know a lot of girls who do, so use your spidey sense.

Candles

Holidays mean holiday candles. I know I want my room to smell like pine, sugar cookies, and "Holiday Cheer"-- whatever that is supposed to smell like.

Take us out

When the holidays are finally here it will mean that we survived finals week. Which means that we may or may not have been studying in our rooms for a week straight with limited human interaction. We would love to just spend time talking-- we could go out to eat, or go to a play or a movie.

Most of all, holidays are about being with family, whatever that looks like for you, and being gracious and welcoming to people who don't have anyone.