Studying until late hours in the campus library, cramming for finals, your college student yearns for that upcoming winter break meeting classmates for study groups, neglecting meals and sleep, and watching the calendar tick down to the chance to come home and relax. The holiday season is a time for gifts, for catching up on much-needed rest, and a time to reconnect with friends, gift in and of itself to the college student in your life. Whatever your student's major, many ingenious gifts are available to make studying, campus life, or even online studying easier. 

In a Flash

Flash drives (thumb drives, pocket drives, pen drives, jump drives, USB drives) are tiny, indispensable storage devices that are now inexpensive enough that you can afford to give your college student one for every class. Among the best: 

1. Kingston's line of USB 3.0 drives. From 8 gigabytes (GB) to 128 GB, with prices ranging from $6.85 to $57.20, these keychain-friendly USB drives cannot be left behind if your student puts them on the same keyring as the car keys. For classwork, 8 GB is ample, with five drives for a full class schedule costing only $34.25.

 

2. SanDisk Extreme. Not that you expect your scholar to spend college hours transferring movies, but SanDisk's 64GB Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive can transfer a full movie in 10 seconds, with password protection and a lifetime warranty. Available in 16, 32 and 64 GB with prices ranging from $44.99 to $111.99. 

 

Pillow Talk: Because Sleep isn't Overrated!

If your bleary-eyed student already burns her candle at both ends and in the middle, every minute of actual sleep is critical. Without relying on medication that can disrupt the body, you can provide your student with some useful sleep aids: 

3. SleepPhones. Whether used to block out noise, generate white noise, or provide soft music for lulling to sleep, these sleep headband headphones are safe, cool, easily cleaned and perfect for the busy, crowded dorm room. They are $39.95, come in five colors, and work with just about any device.

 

4. Samsonite Neck Pillow. Help your student catch up on sleep while commuting, flying for winter break, or crammed into the back of a '79 Camaro for a road trip. Samsonite's memory foam neck pillow is $20 in black or purple and weighs less than a pound. 

 

Give the Gift of Cheap Clicks

The pace of technology unrolls so fast, laptops are nearly obsolete by the time you hit the store parking lot. A less expensive option: 

5. Google Chromebook. Your student can store all of his or her academics, contacts, pictures, videos, arrest records - wait, what? - and diaries on servers, rather than a laptop. Chromebooks exploit the power of the cloud to minimize hardware and software in the device, so the Chromebook works many times faster than a laptop, at a much smaller cost. Excellent Chromebooks that will never bog down with extraneous software programs can be had for under $300, though Google Chromebook Pixel 2015 is a hefty $1,154.35 if you are shopping to impress. 

6. Lenovo TAB 2 A10 Tablet. A tablet for under $200 that can perform most of the scholarly tasks for which you'd like to believe your student is using a device that includes a camera? Yup. This is a hot seller, so you may have to do some searching. 

 

Nursing Niceties: Fashion-conscious Attire for Nursing and Health Science Students

Your nursing student has his or her own particular wish list, centered on a career that combines compassion with practicality. Consider these ideas:

7. Fashionable scrubs. Tops, lab coats, pants and jackets in fashion-conscious fits, patterns and styles are all available for women at UrbaneScrubs.com; for men, try Murseworld.com for tops that include Disney and other cartoon characters, camouflage, and sizes up to 4XL

 

8. Syringe-shaped pens. A silly novelty item, but a fun stocking-stuffer, these inexpensive pens can bring a smile during a long shift

 

Culinary Courtesies: Gift for the Culinary Student

The culinary student in your life may need to relocate for that full-time job after graduation, so consider a sleek, small gift rather than a new gas stove: 

9. Henckels Twin Signature Three-Piece Starter Set. A four-inch parer, six-inch sandwich and eight-inch chef's knife, all for $99.95, make this a great supplement to any equipment your chef gets from culinary school

 

10. Le Cordon Bleu Cookbook. Some people collect mystery stories; cooks collect cookbooks. The 1994 centenary collection from the famous French cooking school has 100 recipes. 

 

Duly Noted

11. Our eleventh idea that is inexpensive and can lead to bouts of excitement: buy your budding scholar a set of custom notepads. Order these $14.99 monogrammed, personalized notepads early, and prepare your favorite college student for note-taking success.

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 Truly Blessed (@Love_quanita) October 13, 2015

 

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