What to pack

Suggested items for your packing list:

• Landline telephone
• Calling card (for long distance calls)
• Bedding for a twin extra-long bed
• Painter’s tape (see posters & decorations)
• Cleaning supplies & laundry detergent
• Fan
• Personal hygiene items
• School supplies
• Surge protector
• Desk lamp
• Clothing for class, hanging out, dressy occasions
• Flip flops/shower caddy
• Coax cable (to plug your TV into the cable jack)
• Hangers for your clothes
• Ethernet cable
• Small wastepaper basket
• Dry erase board (for your door)
• Health insurance card

Furniture

Students are provided with a bed frame, mattress, desk, desk chair, dresser, and wardrobe. This furniture must remain in your room for the duration of the year. Students who wish to bring additional furniture must meet the safety specifications required. Students are not permitted to bring or construct their own beds or loft the bed provided by the college. Any upholstered furniture (futon, couch, etc.) must meet California Fire Code 117 or higher. All upholstered furniture must also have a tag indicating the fire code rating.

Posters & Decorations

To help personalize your room, you will likely want to hang posters or pictures in your room. Please be advised that certain items (nails, duct tape, etc.) may damage these walls and these damages will be billed at the end of the year. Pack a few rolls of blue "painters" tape to prevent damage to the walls. Also, please do not cover the ceiling with decorations.

Computers

Every room has an Ethernet jack so you can plug right in to connect to the Merrimack College network. Starting in fall 2011, all residence halls are wireless!

Suites, townhouses & apartments

If you will be living in a suite-style room (O'Brien Hall; designated rooms in Ash, Monican Centres), townhouse, or on campus apartment,  pack cleaning supplies and paper products for your bathrooms. The residents of these spaces are responsible for the up keep of these bathrooms throughout the year; our cleaning staff will come in during the semester break to clean these spaces.