Office Chair:
If you are savvy you can get a good office chair for 50 dollars. A good office chair is padded, has wheels, and has the whoosh variety of up and down adjustability. An office chair will dramatically increase you quality of life. Being able to roll around to the fridge if your desk is near one, or being able to combine running your hands backwards over you hair and leaning back in your office chair when pausing in frustration during a particularly nasty calculus problem really hits the spot. If you are like me my day consists of running from class to class, from place to place, where the intervening time is spent sitting on sadly static and solid chairs (except my diff eq lecture- that place has movie theater style folding chairs), and when you get back to where ever you came were, you sit on a chair for the rest of the night. Now, I realize that this is a somewhat superfluous recommendation because everyone already has office chairs, but just in case you don't, you are missing out.
Recliner:
I don't want to harp on about the value of quality furniture, so I will just say that before college, the two best pieces of furniture in the house were my office chair and my recliner, which I purchased with my own money.
Kindle
Reading is awesome. But people don't read as often as they would enjoy, even those that really enjoy reading, because obtaining books is inconvenient, and often pricey. Well, kindles are kinda pricey- 139 dollars, but really thats not much compared to a laptop. A kindle lets you read much more. With my kindle, I discovered that young adults books are like, as my marine friend would say, who also owns a kindle, TV in book form- there is lots of explosions or comedy, generally entertaining stuff, that does not require any mental thought. And the price isn't that bad- say you buy movie of the year for 9 dollars- not sure who sells movies of the year for less than 10 dollars, but for the sake of what I will suddenly call an argument, you find one, and its Avatar, and you watch it, which lasts for about 3 hours. Or you could buy the best book written in the year , or maybe the best you thought was written for the same price, and guess what- the best book is better than Avatar, which really wasn't that good, and if you watched it without 12 foot subwoofers the second time around you might get bored. So yes, by a kindle. Oh, and you know how that great movie has a sequel that comes out every year and a half, for a year or two? Books do the same thing, but for longer because authors need to pay the rent by continuing to make good books. The only movies that do that, arguably, is the Harry Potter series, which ironically is not available on kindle because J.K. Rowling thinks they should only be enjoyed in paper form (not to mention multi-gillion dollar 3D cimema surround sound). And kindles have really long battery life! If you don't have a kindle, download the kindle app to your computer of phone thingy.
Micheal Crichton Series
Buy the Michal Crichton series for your kindle- I haven't regretted reading one of his books yet. They tend to follow a certain trend: a scientific discovery in a remote location requires the main character to pass through a bunch of security features meant to contain the perfectly safe discovery, followed by the discovery getting out of control, killing the foolish creatures of the discovery, while the main character barley escapes. But the discoveries are all really cool, and there are good quotes: Read them.
Legos
Legos are the best toy ever invented, and they make kids say "I want to be an inventor when I grow up" which is epic- Imagine having business cards saying: inventor, and under UV light it says either "that guy who makes Bat Man's stuff", "Doc Brown", "Doctor Who", "Tony Stark" and so forth. (More practical inventors are engineers on the side to pay the bills and foot the massive cost for thier underground lab)
Speakers
If you like music, which you do presuming you've heard enough kinds of music to find the kind you like, the music sounds better coming out of speakers separate from your laptop- I suggest x-mini capsule speakers on amazon- they get good base, high quality, and charge via USB, which makes everything slightly cooler. I should get advertising monies for this post.
Foam Pillow
No more lumps, no more pillow needing fluffing. Its worth it.
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