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College Marketplace is the student-only buy and sell app for Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Every account is verified with a @gatech.edu email address, so you're only ever trading with other Yellow Jackets — not strangers from Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist.

Tech's housing splits down the middle, East and West. East Campus holds the traditional halls — Brown, Cloudman, Field, Glenn, Hanson, Harris, Harrison, Hopkins, Howell, Matheson, Perry, Smith, and Towers — plus the North Avenue East, North Avenue North, North Avenue South, and North Avenue West apartments and the small house-style apartments at Goldin House, Gray House, Hayes House, and Stein House. West Campus covers Armstrong, Caldwell, Fitten, Folk, Freeman, Fulmer, Hefner, Montag, and the Woodruff North suites, with apartment living at Center Street North, Center Street South, Crecine, Eighth Street East, Eighth Street South, Eighth Street West, Maulding, Nelson Shell, and Zbar Apartments. Newest of the bunch is Peterson — the Bud and Val Peterson Residence Hall on Northside Drive, roughly 860 beds of double-occupancy rooms and the first traditional hall Tech has built in decades. Wherever you land, everything you need is already on campus. Georgia Tech students post mini fridges, futons, storage bins, desk lamps, monitors, bikes, and gently used textbooks every semester — usually for a fraction of retail.

Rooms arrive furnished. Traditional and suite rooms come with a bed, desk, desk chair, dresser, and wardrobe; apartments add a dining table and chairs, a sofa, accent chairs, and coffee and end tables. Beds take Twin XL sheets — the frames run 38 inches wide by 85.5 inches long — so ordinary twin bedding simply will not fit, which is why sheet sets and mattress toppers move fast here. Homemade lofts are not allowed in any residence hall room. Instead, beds adjust to low, medium, high, or bunked positions, and only Housing maintenance staff may move them; anything raised above 36 inches gets a guardrail installed by Tech at no charge. Halogen lamps, waterbeds, and gas- or battery-powered scooters and hoverboards are prohibited, while rugs, fans, dehumidifiers, air purifiers, and removable-adhesive wall hangings are all encouraged — and all of those show up secondhand every August.

For the handoff, stick to somewhere public and busy. The John Lewis Student Center and Tech Green sit right in the middle of everything, Price Gilbert Memorial Library and the Campus Recreation Center stay packed from morning to midnight, Brittain Dining Hall works for anyone on the East Campus side, and Barnes & Noble at Georgia Tech in Tech Square is an easy landmark for off-hours meetups. No shipping labels, no delivery fees, no meeting someone off campus.

Popular categories at Georgia Tech: textbooks and course materials · dorm and apartment furniture · mini fridges and microwaves · bikes and scooters · Georgia Tech apparel and game day gear · electronics and monitors · event tickets · lofting kits and bed risers · storage bins and organizers