As you lowly high school seniors begin to catwalk to "Pomp & Circumstance" and become Tufts freshman, there are a few things you’ll need and need to know before you come to campus. Thus, we begin our summer-long Pre-Frosh Survival Kit. Don't leave home without us.

Item 1: Let's begin with the simple and ever-intuitive shower sandals. Perhaps you weren’t planning on bringing them. But did you ever hear the one about ringworm in a Carmichael Hall guys' bathroom? True story, sadly.

In college dorms, germs spread faster than SARS on a plane full of infants. And you don't want to become a new case study down at Tufts-NEMC. The orange line is a bitch, after all.