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UK students: what should freshers bring to university?

A young woman university student washing dishes in her kitchen bedsit at home.
What item did you find especially useful? Photograph: redsnapper/Alamy Stock Photo

As a new academic year approaches, we would like to hear students’ advice on what to pack for university.

What item did you bring that you found especially useful? What did you pack that you could probably have done without? (Did you take a full kitchen set and arrive to find your flatmates had done exactly the same and ended up with eight sieves?) And what did you wish you had brought?

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