Preparing for the New School Year at Western University (UWO)

Written by: Christopher Miszczak – Forest City Surplus staff member and Illustrations Editor at the University of Western Ontario’s The Gazette

Whether you are a first year student at Western, or a returning student you are already well aware of the cost for the privilege to be called a Western student. With rising tuition costs, books, living and additional costs you end up paying a lot just for the opportunity to study in Westerns hallowed halls. Surprisingly enough a lot of the stuff needed for the average student at Western can be found under a single roof, at Forest City Surplus.

For the student living off campus, you are pretty well setting up your own home away from home. A lot of the times this even means finding your own fridge and new kitchen accessories. At Forest City Surplus, we have a surplus of microwaves and mini fridges at unbelievable prices. Who even knew that you could even use your mini fridge as a night stand, it’s even the perfect size for the dorm room.

After a great deal of time studying the sciences, more than once you will be tempted to practice the studies yourself. However a great deal of the materials needed to do this are either expensive or hard to come by. However at Forest city surplus, there is already have a wide selection of Erlenmeyer flasks, graduated cylinders, test tubes of all sizes and a whole series of small flasks ideal for acidic or basic buffers. The store is truly ideal for the hard-core science student’s personal lab and perfect for practicing the science and preparing for your labs and tests.

Setting up your own personal lab, for practicing your homework as a science student will not only help build a stronger foundation of knowledge, but provide real insight into what you are studying for hours on end. This is an ideal setup for a greater understanding of the science that you are studying and concurrently will provide better grades too.

For the computer science, programming and engineering students, we have a surplus of off lease laptops and computers at phenomenal prices. For adventuresome electrical students that are trying to experiment by building a desktop computer or laptop to carry around, Forest City Surplus has got all of your technological bases covered, including soldering, wiring, and other electronic needs for those engineering students.

Now as a student, your backpack is your very life, your essence and it is your soul. You carry everything around with you in it and it’s always a shame when it tears or falls apart after a long year of being tugged around and bumping everywhere to the point where after all the duct tape in the world, it no longer resembles a backpack and it’s time to replace it. At Forest City Surplus, once again we have a whole range of backpacks from heavy-duty military style canvas rucksacks, which pretty well never break to the high end ergonomically designed ObusForme day packs for long journeys in the university trenches.

Now whether you are enjoying your own tunes, playing in a band or blasting away at a party at Forest City Surplus we have a huge wide arrange of Pyle party pumping speakers at Surplus prices.

Are you a mouse? Or a Man? Do you stay up long nights reading godknowswhat and practicing algebraic questions till the sun comes up? How many times have you worked through meals only to have your stomach object at the most awkward of times and who knew that when working through the nights and the books that it’s pretty well the same as surviving the apocalypse and existing on the fringe. Just how do you quench and silence the beast? At those times, it’s nice to know that there is an easy solution to the problem. Namely being, a whole menu of freeze-dried food that while normally prepared for the man waiting for the world to end, are actually perfect for the student and the wallet. As a bonus the space saving dehydrated design means it won’t take up much room in your tiny dorm room.

Now we know that when the world does end, you will at least have a nice selection of food to choose from. Forest City Surplus has a wide variety of choices from scrambled eggs and bacon, to lasagna with meat flavoring and more. There is even large canisters that can even last over twenty years! Never go hungry again thanks to Forest City Surplus.

When laundry nears and you are running out of clean clothes or when you are hot and or feeling hot we have plenty of camouflage T-Shirts just made for you. Additionally we have camo styled booty shorts for those extra hot days. Being on a tight student budget durability can be key, Forest City Surplus will be a hero to your wallet with its huge selection of combat boots at surplus prices and BDU pants with double seats to save you from embarrassing torn crotches (even more essential to avoid in today’s age of Twitter and smartphones).

Finally for those looking to blow off some steam and just plain shoot something, we have plenty of Airsoft style and paintball artillery to satisfy that inner beast. It’s a great way to have some fun and relieve some stress (this will come in handy come exam time). Forest City Surplus is also known for being home to the only airsoft target range in London, Ontario.

These are only but a few of the unique product, all found under one roof at great prices at Forest City Surplus. Truly ideal prices and items needed for the new or returning student. A great deal of what you are looking for as a student at Western can additionally be found here, from setting up that home away from home, electronic supplies, freeze dried food, or that home chemistry science set we pretty well got you covered. Come down today and just see what we can provide for you!