What Do I Need for my Room?

Trinity University Provides:

• Carpeting
• Closets
• Shower Curtain
• Smoke detectors
• Blinds or drapes
• Coaxial TV cable
• Ethernet cable and wireless internet
• Overhead ceiling lights
• Standard, bunkable beds
• Desks, chairs and bookshelves
• Telephone with voice mail and caller ID
• One locked drawer per person
• Dressers and night stands
• Air Conditioning/Heat
• Microfridge ®
  (refrigerator/ freezer/microwave
  combination unit)

Suggested/popular items to bring (many of these are readily available at nearby San Antonio stores):

• Alarm clock
• Computer
• Television and stereo
• Reading or bedside lamps
• Pillows, blankets and standard twin bed linens (long linens for Beze, Herndon, Isabel, Myrtle, Prassel or Susanna beds)
• Towels, hair dryers, toiletries
• Posters, plants, pictures
• Coffee maker
• Laundry supplies, hangers, iron
• Medicine and prescriptions
• Whiteboard
• Storage containers
• Surge protector, extension cords
• Flashlight
• For international students: plug converter and phone cards
• School supplies

You may not bring, nor acquire while here:

• Alcohol, empty alcohol containers or illegal drugs
• Microwave, refrigerator, toaster or any cooking appliance with an exposed heating element
• Pets (except for fish)
• Candles or incense
• Firearms, weapons or fireworks
• Grills, charcoal or combustible fuel
• Waterbed

Students are not permitted to remove
University furniture from their rooms.

Your Resident Mentor

Resident Mentors (RMs) are carefully selected and extensively trained upperclass leaders (sophomore, junior or senior) who work as paraprofessionals on the Residential Life Staff. Their primary role is to support a small group of about 18 first year students, building a fun, healthy and respectful community among your neighbors. Your RM will guide you through New Student Orientation (NSO) all the way to the end of the year.

During NSO, you will register for classes for the first time, and your RM will assist you and your faculty advisor in that process. Your group will get to know one another well as you go through all the programs designed to get you well acquainted with campus.

Throughout the fall semester, your RM will host fun activities to break from studying and get to know other students. Your Resident Mentor group will also discuss the ups and downs of college life: staying healthy, getting along with your roommate, doing well in college classes and making choices about relationships and alcohol.

Take time to get to know your RM. He or she will be one person you know you can trust to look out for your best interests and encourage you to take positive risks. RMs know you may make mistakes and sometimes have to hold you accountable to campus policy, but they will also help you learn from those experiences.

Your first year is a time of significant independence from life at home. Your RM is there to help make Trinity feel like home, too.

Meet the 07-08
Resident Mentors!