So, the time has come. You're a student freshly moved into your dorm room, still in that awkward, friendly phase with your roommate. You're broke (or relatively on a budget) and the dining hall seems so far away when you're already settled on your lumpy dorm mattress. Time for ramen and hopefully, if you're lucky, an HBO binge session using your floor's wifi and ex-boyfriends password. Despite the drawbacks of being "fresh meat," college certainly doesn't have to look or feel like this and these list of affordable and dorm friendly gadgets can help you. Yours truly has experienced the pangs of dorm life (and life in general) and can say, with confidence, that having some tools on deck can make all the difference in your college experience.