Universities also have bigger stuff a lot of the time, like bigger endowments and buildings. The professors, conversely, are smaller-that is why they need to be defended from students, who are often very large because they grew that way in high school. Not everyone is fit for college. The truth is that difficulty varies so much from school to school and course to course that not much can be said definitively about this question. Most likely you will have room, food, books, clothes and friends taken care of for you before you even get there.
Many schools also offer a healthy CD stipend.
If you have some things that carry personal meaning for you, like pictures of friends or a Nintendo 64, you are encouraged to bring them. If you have the Internet at home right now, be sure to put it on a disk before you leave for school. If you've taken a look at the admissions materials, viewbooks, and web sites of most schools, you've probably noticed that it's very hard to weigh schools against one another based on these materials alone. In reality, the similarities between viewbooks are not a result of similar marketing strategies or slick, but empty production values. All schools are exactly the same.