Bring only the items you cannot live without until your first break home. In the US, that is typically Thanksgiving or Winter break after the first semester.

Don’t bring a printer, a radio, or routers. If you have no desire to socialize with others, you may want to consider an apartment off campus.

This is surely what they are referring to. It doesn’t reply to your post beyond saying they don’t understand it.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-mayonnaise-an-instrument

Socco isn’t dirty, he is an inspiration.

In the last few years I’ve finished a dozen or so. In college I used about 1 pen per semester from start to finish in the same way. I tend to use nail clippers until they are dull, too.

I leave a chapstick (Burt’s bees) at my desk at home and another in the pants I go out with (which moves to new pants with my wallet as necessary). Hard to lose things when I have a system, I guess.