A cool concept, but a little thin on the details. Regardless of whether your are pulling necessities out of a uhaul or or from a fedex box at the campus post office, move-in is teh suck.

[ Not a bad idea. It appears the DormRoomExpress stuff is the same brands you get from Target... so from that standpoint it's not unlike what you'll get anyway. It's not for me. I'd rather be able to choose how to allot even a minimal amount of funding, but I'm picky about things like pillows and lamps. But I imagine for some it would be pretty rad. ...]

If colleges were smart, they would bundle this stuff themselves. ... Colleges can buy in bulk that so that the price, even with the added cost of having it in the the room already, would be competitve with your local Target or Walmart.

[... Agreed, the college could do it and make it easy as hell, but i don't believe for a second that it'd actually be cheaper. -k]

Setting Up the Dorm Remotely