In your PreSesh Pack you will find the Alternative Prospectus which features a list of items that experience suggests will be useful. However, for those overseas students on this board (who won't be getting their Packs until they arrive), I reproduce it below:
Union Temporary Membership Card (it'll be in your Pack when you get to your Hall)
lots of passport photos
form of ID - passport / photocopy of birth certificate
acceptance letter from the university - you may have problems at Customs without it
corkscrew
can-opener
music
posters
thumb-tacks / blu-tack
tea / coffee
small amount of crockery / cutlery
snacks, especially foreign ones: for example, you can't get Twinkies in the UK
alarm clock
disposable camera
toilet paper
I'll try to post a checklist for overseas students on the website -
www.yourunion.net
Ben Spiers
Director of Services