Great Gifts For College Students

By Elba Fenwick


While going away can be a lot of fun and a chance to gain some independence, college students need a little something to lift their spirits and cure any bouts of homesickness. If the student in your life needs a little TLC, here are a few gift suggestions they are sure to enjoy.

The dorm food is notoriously bad, so one great gift idea would be to send them something truly decadent to eat. While collegians tend to inhale large amounts of pizza every week, you can change this up a bit and send some gourmet chocolate pizza. This chocolate confection, created by The Chocolate Pizza Company, is created from a mix of luscious milk or dark chocolate mixed with homemade English toffee. This forms the crust and then the pizza is topped with everything from nuts to M&Ms to marshmallows and Reese's Pieces and a drizzle of white chocolate. The pizza is then wrapped in cellophane and placed in an actual pizza box for presentation.

The Chocolate Pizza Company also has created a special treat just for college students. The College Survival Kit is a box packed with delicious treats. The box include a mini dark chocolate pizza, a slice of milk chocolate pizza, chocolate-covered Oreo cookies, a chocolate and caramel drumstick and the perfect chocolate pizza accompaniment, Peanut Butter Wings. These wings are formed by mixing potato chips and peanut butter and then coating this sweet and salty mixture in rich chocolate.

Along the same lines as chocolate pizza, food-related gifts are always a big hit. So consider sending along something your student can use to make snacks in the dorm room, such as a mini microwave or fridge or perhaps a plug-in kettle which heats water for tea, instant coffee, soup and instant oatmeal. Be sure to send along some snacks with your gift so that they can enjoy the new appliance right away.

One gift idea that is both thoughtful and helpful would be a gift basket filled with laundry items. The basket itself could be foldable laundry hamper that can be used to tote clothes back and forth from the laundry facility. Fill the basket with detergent, fabric softener, laundry instructions and a bag of quarters to use for the wash. This is a great going-away gift for your student.

If your student needs a laptop or tablet, that certainly is a great going-away gift, but if those supplies are not needed, then consider getting them a cool bag to carry the computer, books and supplies. An alarm clock is another idea, but it's a good idea to get the type that also acts as a charger and speaker for their mobile phone or MP3 player. Headphones, the fancy noise-cancelling type, are another electronic item college students will appreciate.




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