5 Products to Help Make College Easier This Year

By Kaitlin Hurtado on September 22, 2017

When you have leftover money, whether it’s money saved up from birthday presents, paychecks from your part-time job, or even financial aid money, the decision of what to spend your precious money on might be a difficult one.

A festival that has the majority of your favorite musical artists? Treating yourself to a Disney day? Instead of spending the money on a one-time experience, put your money toward purchasing products that you can continuously enjoy.

Uloop’s Shopping page has a curation of products that can make any college student’s life much easier. Just like on any online marketplace, you can easily lose time by browsing every product that you possibly can. To make the search for products easier, here is a narrowed down list of products that can make life in college much easier this year.

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Mini-Fridge

Regardless of what year of school you are in, you are very likely going to be sharing space with roommates, including a kitchen and fridge space. When dorming, all of a dorm building’s occupants are usually limited to one large communal fridge in the dorm’s shared kitchen. You can take your chances and leave your food in it, but there’s no guarantee that another resident will not mistake your food for their own or blatantly just steal your food.

Even when you’ve moved off campus and live with others, you will still be sharing an apartment and fridges can easily become stuffed with food. To save you the time and headache of trying to make your fridge look like the food version of a Jenga tower when it comes time to put groceries away, or worse, take out what you think is yours, buy yourself a mini-fridge for your room.

A mini-fridge allows you to have your food just steps away and prevents other residents/roommates from grabbing your food for themselves. This mini fridge from Igloo has a dry erase door that doubles as a memo pad for your room for $110.79.

Nightlight with Bluetooth Speaker

Bluetooth speakers come in handy during college; you can play music louder than your laptop or phone may be able to and also have it sound clearer. You can bring it into the bathroom to blast music while you shower or in the kitchen while you cook. You also have the ability to use the speaker with an aux cord, saving you the battery that having your phone on Bluetooth would spend.

The speaker also doubles as a nightlight, allowing you to change between seven different colors with one touch or automatically to the beat of your music depending on the mode you have the light set on.

Turcom AirLight LED Desk Lamp

This lamp allows you to light up your late night study sessions without the typical bulky desk lamp. The lamp also doubles as a bladeless fan with three adjustment levels. Its sleek design saves you much-needed desk space and also eliminates one cord from the usual mess of electric cords associated with desk areas.

Because it is adjustable in brightness and cooling, you can easily use the lamp at any part of the day and not have it too bright or too dim for your eyes.

Charging USB Cords

While your phone already comes with one charging cord, you will soon find out you can never have enough charging cables. They may rip or break so that you can only use them at specific angles. You can have one in perfect condition but find it useless when you left it at your friend’s apartment or not in your bag during a break between classes.

Buy more charging cables that you can bring along with you and not face the pressure of remembering to bring your main charger with you or leave it behind. Have one for your car, for your backpack, and for your room so you don’t forget where you put them or face a situation where you don’t have one at all.

Songmics Lap Desk 

This bamboo lap desk allows you to build your own study space anywhere. Sometimes poorly planned study sessions at someone’s apartment can lead to not enough table space or seating, forcing you and others to resort to sitting on the couch or floor with no workspace.

Having a lap desk like this one allows you to take it anywhere as the legs are completely adjustable and allow you to completely fold them for easy transport and storing. It also features a drawer as additional storage space for school supplies you’ll be needing.

The desk doesn’t have to be used for just studying; it can be used to rest your laptop on while you catch up on shows, or as a table for eating a meal in bed or on the floor.

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