if you are about to join your college or you are already a student here is a list of 21 21 Essentials that you must need for your college life exactly four years from today I started my journey as a college student I made a ton of mistakes and that is what I want to share with you in this video so that you can thrive in your whole college experience so hear me out college is a time for you to explore as many things as possible and you need to create an environment that enables you to do the same and this list is surely going to improve your quality of living in college hit the like button and let's get started with the first thing and that has to be your laptop the thing that you will be spending a majority of your college life with I have already made multiple videos on how to buy your laptop so go refer to that but I just want to point out a few things always ensure that your laptop has an SSD a solid state drive this will ensure that every everything that you're doing is going to happen super quick secondly focus on the weight of the laptop now in my whole college experience I had this laptop called as Acer Nitro 5 it weighed over 2.7 kgs more than 3 kgs if you include the charger as well and I was just not able to carry it everywhere that I wanted it to if I was going to the library I had to carry the charger because it was a gaming laptop the battery life was just about one to two hours and I needed it wherever I went that is why your laptop needs to be lightweight it needs to have a larger battery life and the next step is the screen of the laptop that is what you will be staring 24 7. if not 24 7 I'm sure you'll be staring at it at least for five to ten hours every single day and that is why the screen needs to be crisp and bright at all times lastly you have to Define your budget if you can afford above 65 000 rupees seventy eighty thousand rupees MacBook Air M1 is the best choice for you just blindly buy that laptop and you will be good to go for the next four years of your journey but if your budget is 35 to 50 000 rupees there are plenty of laptops from Asus VivoBook you can also check out Acer one business laptop for about 14 inches it has pretty good specs for about 45 000 rupees so this is what you need but don't go below 35 000 for a laptop right see a laptop is going to help you for the next four years so it is very important for you to invest in a good laptop right even if you can afford about 50 to 60 000 rupees it is better for you to go with a second hand MacBook Air M1 in a good condition then going with some Windows laptop that is going to slow down in the next one or two years also make sure that the ram is expandable it has an extra slot to enter your more RAM because in the next two to three years your Windows laptop is going to slow down substantially and that is why you would want to have some more RAM for the same number two is the power bank now this is again a big mistake I made whenever I used to go out of my hostel I used to not have a power bank with me I used to go around the classes in the lecture halls around the campus go to the lunch Hall have my food over there come back go to the library study and many a times my phone used to go below 20 battery and I was just not able to do anything on the phone I would have to go again back to my hostel to charge my phone that is why you need a power bank at all times with you wherever you are going in your college campus there are some great options like the xiaomi 10 000 Mah power bank that you can get and if you want something light you can check out this small power bank that you can carry with yourself in the keychain in itself and you can charge your phone wherever you go along with it right all the links of these products are going to be in the description that you can check out if you are interested talking about the third one this has to be organizers as an engineer our lives are already pretty messed up you do not want your gadgets you do not want your things to be unorganized that just creates a lot of mess in your head as well so what you need are multiple organizers let me give you an example this right here is a gadget organizer I got from Amazon for about 500 something rupees and this was a great purchase overall why because this right now has every single thing that I need for my travel or whenever I am going out right let me show you how it works so you can and clip it and this is what it expands into as you can see the this is what it looks like first of all you have the SSD right here you have a USB C hub for MacBook people you have a bunch of wires right here here is my Apple watch charger then I have a charger for my iPad I have a charger for my MacBook I have a charger for some other devices as well USB type-c normal USB charger but as you can see I have three adapters right here one for my MacBook one for my iPad and one dual adapter as you can see this has two inputs that you can do to charge two things at the same time one of the best purchases I have had many a times in your hostel you will not be having a lot of ports you will not be having a lot of charging ports so what you need in that case is something like this with which you can charge anything without needing more ports so that's what you need and then at the end it also has some space to keeping some more adapters and I also have some space for my micro SD cards my SD cards as well as for pen drives as well so that was a gadget organizer that you must buy for all of the gadgets that you will be using secondly you need to also have a clothes organizer let me show you what I mean by that so I have this organizer all right this one that I recently got for about 800 rupees very good investment why because it has multiple I'll show you it has multiple units where I can store all of my clothes as you can see right here in a very organized format so there is this one bigger one then they have some smaller ones as well that I can show you right here this is a smaller one and it's the reset there are many of these that I can use to store all of my clothes as well as all of my toiletries if I need to so this again is a great investment that you should be making in your organizers thirdly there is also a drawer organizer that you can get so that you can keep everything in your drawers organized right so I hope that you're following up if you're liking this video make sure to hit the like button and let's keep moving number four you need to have a whiteboard in your hostel in many cases like mine the college provided a whiteboard in our hostel rooms but if you do not have a whiteboard you absolutely need it why because many a times as a student there are tons of things happening in your life fried you are taking part in clubs you are doing some assignments you have some classes to attend you have some people to meet you have some a lot of different things to do right go on dates whatever so you need to point it out you need to write it down on a piece of paper it is much better to do that on a whiteboard so that it is right in front of you you can take things off the checklist and you can keep moving ahead and keep making progress every single day so you need a whiteboard and you need a marker the fifth one is a laptop stand and I just realized that I should be having it when I was in college as well see whenever you are looking at a screen on a laptop you are mostly looking down and working right and when you do this every single day for eight hours you will develop a deformity at the back of your neck it is much better to look straight to the screen itself and so what you need is a laptop stand that can help you with it there are two types of laptop stands normally one that you can adjust the levels off there are many of those on Amazon that you can get and second there is one that you can attach to the laptop itself which I think is great because you don't have to carry it around with you you can just stick it once and it will be there on your laptop wherever you go you just cannot adjust the levels of it that is the only disadvantage with it but you can get that and you can be assured that you are looking straight at the screen and you are not bending your neck all the time all right the next item is going to be very important so you have bought a good laptop you have invested into a laptop what you need now is some way to protect your laptop from Falls or from some dents and other things like that that's why you need to have a laptop sleeve like this one I got this from Amazon basics for about 700 800 rupees very good investment you have to do this I've been using this for the past three years and it still looks like new it has this amazing zip which still works very well and it has a ton of storage that you can see inside right here right so I have been using this for both my Acer Nitro 5 which was 15.6 inches for my current MacBook Pro 14 inches as well as for my MacBook Air M1 which is 13 inches which I was using previously so it works very well you can even store your charger inside it and it is just a must have if you are using a laptop which I think everyone is talking about the seven thing and this has to be your chair as you can see right here you need to have a great chair if you will be working as a developer as a video editor as a designer as a copywriter you will be sitting and spending a big chunk of your day sitting in front of a screen and so you need to make sure that your chair is ergonomical it is comfortable for you to sit in I remember when I was in first year I had this very uncomfortable chair which the college provided to us let's just say it was not fun to sit on it I got myself a pillow I used to put the pillow and then sit on the pillow on the chair but that is just just not the right fix you need to have a good chair for yourself this one I've been using for about two years it's from Green Soul it cost me about seven to eight thousand rupees there are cheaper options available on Amazon that you can find for yourself but make sure that it is ergonomical make sure that you can adjust it to your own liking like this and make sure that it is comfortable for you to sit and use your laptop for hours on end this is seriously a very important thing I have friends because they were just not sitting on a comfortable chair in a comfortable posture right so this is a very important underrated thing that you that a lot of students Miss but they end up paying for it later on moving on to the eighth this is a cable protector now tell me in the comments how many times have you broken a wire have you broken your cables for your phones right it happens all the time right yeah right so you need to have a cable protector for it as you can see on the screen Amazon pay available hey for about 100 200 rupees and you can put it on all the ends of your cables and then you can use it without worrying of it breaking at any moment number nine we have something very cool and this is a cleaning kit from poltronics which is less than 500 rupees with the help of it you can clean the keyboard of your laptop the screen of your laptop you can even clean your earphones if you wanted it to and you can just clean pretty much any Gadget that you would have this one is a must buy because as you will start using your gadgets you will realize that it has some dust deposited on it and it just does not look good for this small cleaning kit that you can see on the screen will help you clean all of them without breaking the bank number 10 we are not talking about Hardware but about an application so hear me out you are living your independent life in college right you are managing your own money trying to make some more money on the site freelancing as well but you need to make sure that you track all of your expenses you went out with your friends you have some Oreo shake you had some samosas you had some parathas whatever but you need to keep track where is your money going right and it is a habit that you should inculcate as early as possible you can use multiple apps on Google Play Store as well as App Store and you can start tracking your expenses it is completely free tons of apps available you can even use a sheet but I like to go for an app so that I can see everything visually where do did I spend where did I not spend and how can I reduce my spending every single month and focus on saving and investing that money so you absolutely need to check out money manager app there are many others as well that you can use but make sure that you are tracking everything that you are spending your money on number 11 you have an electric kettle every single day you will find yourself using this if you are a hostile student if you want to make some coffee if you just want to boil some water or do multiple other things as well this is going to be very handy so make sure that you get it there are cases in which colleges don't allow you to use electric kettles in your hostel room but look they use it every single day even without the permission but you can check out ones from Prestige there are some from Pigeon there are some from travels as well Amazon so you can pick any of them and you can start using it every single day number 12a we have a blue light glass now this is another one of those purchases which is underrated but is very important for your eyes and that is a glass to prevent the blue light from entering your eyes right whenever you're looking at a screen which you would be doing mostly every day you need to make sure that your glasses have that support they are preventing the blue light from entering your eyes you can buy it on Amazon it's not that expensive or it is very important for you to protect your eyesight also another quality of life Improvement is this screen protector now you might be like yes right this is my screen protector but look at this this is a privacy screen protector that I think everyone should be using the best part about it is that as a student you will find yourself in public places and you do not want random people looking at your screen seeing who you are messaging what website are you looking at and you need your own privacy and that's why you need to invest in a good privacy screen protector mine is from this company called as Spigen it works very well for my phone but you can get cheaper ones as well on Amazon you can just search privacy screen guard for X phone that you would be having and in most cases it will be available start using it it is just a better quality of life Improvement number 13 we have a monitor you might be wondering I don't need a monitor it is only required for gamers but hear me out a mobile Tower is super important whenever you are doing a ton of tasks on your laptop you don't want to switch tabs you need to have a bigger real estate and you would also want to watch some movies when you are in Hostel right so for all of those needs even if you're programming right if you want to become a software developer you need to have two screens that you can use one on which you're coding one on which you can see the actual site developing or you can see some documentation it is always handy to have two screens where you can view everything and just have a bigger real estate that you can be looking at there are tons of options for about 15 to 30 000 rupees you can get some great you know monitors you can check out the LG borderless monitor for about 24 inches it will cost about 15 000 rupees it is a wonderful purchase my mom is using it it works very well for the price it's a 1080p full HD display you can also invest in a 4K display that you can get from banku or from LG as well and from other gaming you know focused monitors so you can check that out for about 20 to 25 000 you can find all of those and you can start using it in your day-to-day life it will help you out a lot number 14 we have bluetooth speakers who would not want a good speaker in Hostel right every one of my friends had a speaker I had two speakers one from Sony and the other from Apple Beats Pill Pro but it is one of the most important things to have if you are listening to some music if you just want to relax if you want to watch some movies your laptop in most cases will not have a great speaker and that's why it is very important to carry a speaker with you at all times if you are low on budget you can go with Amazon Echo dot that is a great starting point it has a great sound experience you can also go for these JBL Flip 5 speakers right so I'll show you what I have right now I have this one speaker that I can show you here this is the JBL I don't know what speaker it is but it works very well but investing in a gold quality speaker is going to help you out a lot for your hostile life so you have to do it go for an Amazon Echo dot or go for JBL Flip 5 or any of these low cost speakers I'll be linking some in the description so go have a look at that hit the like button if you're liking this video so far alright now moving on you must have some place to write your thoughts right you need to have a journal where you can take some notes I have this one from defolio thank you for sending this to me having a journal is super important you can get three of these from Amazon for about 500 rupees I love having the dotted journals and that is just a great way to write down all of your class notes as well as share all of your thoughts on a piece of paper number 16 we have a sling bag now I got this one from American tourister you you can find tons of these for about 500 to 1000 rupees on Amazon the main reasoning behind this is most of the times when you're outside of your hostel room in your college campus you will be going around with your hostel keys with your wallet with a handkerchief with your phone and with your even headphones or earphones for that matter you need to have some place to keep it most people keep it into their cramped Pockets it just looks odd when you fill all of your pockets does not look good better to have a sling bag like this which you can put around your chest or around your waist right so it's basically going to be worn around your waist right so let me just show you how you wear it this is how it's done and you can just use this wherever it is that you are going around the campus now the best part about this is that this is how it looks like from the inside let me just remove this but basically it has multiple compartments that you can see right here it has one ZIP in the inside that you can see it has one Main Place it has another piece at the back and then you can also just close it I've been using it for the past two months and it is working very well for me there are plenty of these bags available from Arc Hunter on Amazon that you can check and you can order one of these talking about the 17th this is a wallet now I'll just show you what my wallet looks like this is what my wallet is got it from CK as a gift this is a great wallet that you can have there are also other type of wallets that you can get there is one metallic wallet in which you can keep your cash as well as all the visiting cards as well as your credit card debit card and other things as well I want to challenge you to just use cash instead of Google pay and you will realize the amount of money that you can save just by using cash instead of GPA right we don't realize how much we are spending on eating on buying on purchasing things online but start doing cash on delivery start paying with cash and you will automatically want to save more money and just put this cash in a good metallic or leather wallet that you can use at all times you can keep it into your fanny pack or your sling bag and you can carry it around with you number 18 we have a room freshener now hear me out why I'm talking about this right you need to build an environment that motivates you to work to get into that flow state of mind right and I just realized when I have some sense some odors around me I automatically want to work harder I automatically want to focus on my work and that is different for everyone but you need to have some sort of a candle that you can burn or an incense stick or getting yourself a room freshener so that you can get into that mode of working right so this is a very important step that you should absolutely focus on you can find plenty of these on Amazon or even on other sites like miniso but start using these and you will automatically see a bump in the focus that you can have on your work 19 we are talking about headphones so a headphone through which you can cancel out the noise and focus on your work is super important I am not comparing it with an earphone you need to get yourself a wireless headphone that you can use at all times and you can focus on your work while you are doing it now there is one boat headphone that most people get which is super cheap for about I think 1500 to 2000 rupees but you can also buy one from Sony wireless I recently got for about 7000 rupees best purchase ever it is a noise canceling headphone that you can use which has active noise canceling and it has just a great sound quality as well so check out those I personally had Marshall major tools which were a bit too tight for for my you know head structure and it used to hurt me a lot around my ears so this was not the best purchase but you can also check out the Sony xm4s or Sony xm3s if you have the budget to spend about 20 000 to 25 000 rupees on a single headphone but it is absolutely going to be worth it because you'll be using it for the next five years four years to learn skills to work as a freelancer to get a job and you must invest in your Tech as much as you can number 20 we have a keyboard now in most cases if you are a gamer if you are a coder you would like to have a separate keyboard through which you can do all of your work now I have this one from keychron kikron K2 V2 which I purchased for about 7000 rupees from the kikron site itself wonderful keyboard I love it but I know many of you will not be able to invest that much in a keyboard there is one from Ant Sports that you can get for about 2000 rupees a mechanical keyboard that you can use RGB lighting for all of you Gamers out there but if you want something minimal and that just gets the job done check out the Logitech wireless k380 keyboard which is very minimal the keys are rounded so the experience of typing is not the best it feels a bit mushed but it is a great investment for about two thousand three thousand rupees you can get that keyboard great value for money always try to make sure that you reduce the cables that you're using so always go for wireless ones also talking about the last thing this has to be your mouse now in majority of the laptops the trackpad is just not big enough or even if it is Big the experience of using the trackpad is just not at par with using a mouse right if you are a gamer or if you are a coder or if you want to even work as a creative right in the field as designer or as a video editor you need to have a mouse that you can use at all times and I have the Logitech MX Master 3 that you can see right here it works very well for my use case but if you are getting started get a Bluetooth wireless Logitech mouse these are about 500 to 2000 rupees range but you can get a great value for your money I personally got myself a Logitech wireless Bluetooth mouse while ago and it worked very well for me so go take a look at those I will link some in the description all of the products are linked in the description so go take a look at these thank you so much for watching this video this was the 21 Essentials that you need to have if you are joining college or if you are already a student I hope this video helps make sure that you hit the like button and subscribe share this video with your friend if you're still watching right in the comment section I watch till the very end if you have any questions let me know about that as well in the comments and I will see you all in the next video tell me what is the most important tool you got to learn from this video in the comment section as well I am curious to know about that thanks a lot I will see you in the next one foreign [Music]