When it comes to back to school shopping for freshman students there's no need to

make a list with the obvious items like notebooks, pencils, erasers and pens. You
probably have a whole drawer stuffed full of school supplies like those that you can re-
use. Within this article we'll be mentioning 5 supplies every freshman student should
buy and we want you to focus on items that might not have immediately come to mind.
If you can't think of any off of the top of your head then all you have to do is read the
rest of article to find out what they are!

Highlighters for those Important Notes that

you Just Can’t Miss
Without question, your freshman year of high school or college is going to be spent
reading textbooks and making lots of notes. Your studying can go a whole lot easier if
the words on the pages of your notebook or textbook that you purchased stand out.
That's what highlighters are for, so make sure you get one in every color imaginable
and always keep at least one on hand or in your backpack.

Don't Drive a Hard Bargain

External hard drives might become the most useful school supply of any student –
freshman, sophomore, junior or senior – because of how often they might have to use
one throughout the course of the school year. Whether you need to save your essay,
visual presentation or school syllabus, an external hard drive will eventually become full
of school related computer files. A 500GB hard drive should do the trick and provide
you with enough room for years’ worth of school files. Just remember to keep a backup,
as you never want to have to re-write a 10,000 word essay.

A Calculating Mistake...
...would be not buying a graphing calculator! Once you get to high school your courses
are only going to get more difficult and that goes double for math. Algebra, geometry,
and statistics are a few examples of the types of advanced math classes you might be
taking and if you don't have a graphing calculator to help you make the correct
calculations you're asking for trouble. A graphing calculator goes above and beyond the
call of duty that any old scientific calculator can provide. So either be prepared and get
your hands on a graphing calculator or be squared.