Thank you for the advice! I called them and they told me I was accepted on the phone!! Does the school ever provide a general list of what to bring? Or is there a thread that talks about that? Just some suggestions or rough ideas would be helpful!
You can probably find lists on student blogs. In general, I think people tend to bring too much but I prefer to travel light so I'm almost certainly biased. What you need largely depends on your personal habits, and whether you're planning to live on campus or not. Most things are available at Spiceland IGA, but if you have particular brand loyalty to a hygiene product you should probably bring that yourself. Off the top of my head, some things I would suggest bringing:
- A good poncho with a hood, and a backpack cover. Grenada is prone to
very heavy storms with strong winds and an umbrella just doesn't cut it.
- Extra charging cords for your electronic devices. You can have things shipped there but it is
very expensive and you don't want to be without your laptop. The high humidity and crappy outlets destroy electronics.
- A large USB thumb drive and a portable hard drive. You're going to be saving LOTS of image-heavy Powerpoints. I would strongly suggest you take notes electronically, either a laptop or tablet. Don't use paper if you can help it. It's expensive and, again, the climate destroys it.
- A transformer if you're living off campus. Campus has US and EU outlets, off-campus is almost exclusively EU outlets. You can buy these at the hardware store on the island but they're expensive.
- Pharmacy-type things: medications/vitamins/supplements/prophylaxis etc. There is a pharmacy near campus but they have super limited drugs and the campus clinic sucks. Condoms are available but Grenadians are super touchy about sex, including the physicians. Bring anti-diarrheals, it's pretty much inevitable at some point and you don't want to miss an important exam because the pharmacy was out. For ladies, if you can bring some Abx for UTIs and some antifungals for yeast infections, they take FOREVER to get through the clinic.
- Sunglasses.
- A light sweater/pullover/jumper that you can wear during class. They keep the lecture halls unbelievably cold and you'll acclimate to the warm weather pretty quickly.
- A small box of exam gloves for Term 1 cadaver lab. You will instantly make friends if you have them day 1, and they are super expensive from the pharmacy.
- 1 nice conservative outfit. You will want it for your white coat ceremony, for practical CS exams, and for the occasional evening out. Get 4 or 5 people together, get dressed up and go somewhere nice like the Beach House, Laluna, or Aquarium at least once per term.
Hope that helps. If you have any specific questions I'll do my best to answer them honestly. Congrats!
