For many students, this is the first time that they have ever left the safe and comfortable confines of home and family. Quite often, the first few weeks spent away from home are filled with anxiety and uncertainty.
Dorm rooms are notoriously small and severely underfurnished.
A new college student must learn to adapt to his or her new environment while still maintaining some connection to the hometown they left behind. This is never an easy transition to pull off, so parents often try to soften the blow through 'care packages'- small gifts sent to their young students as a show of support. These packages are treasured commodities in the sparse world of dorm living. Rolls of quarters. Besides the usual pitch for spending money, college students often need quarters for laundry and late-night vending snacks.