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Malala is off to college and needs your packing advice

The Nobel Prize winner needs your help.

Martha Tesema

on October 2, 2017

Malala is off to college and needs your packing advice

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 22: Human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech on stage during a memorial event for murdered Labour MP Jo Cox at Trafalger Square on June 22, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. On what would have been her 42nd birthday, Labour MP Jo Cox is remembered worldwide in a series of #moreincommon events today. The Labour MP for Batley and Spen was shot and stabbed in the street on June 16 and later died. A fund set up in her name has raised over £1.23 M GBP to date (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Credit: Getty Images

Malala Yousafzai is off to college and asked for packing help this weekend.

The 20-year-old activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner will attend Oxford University this year as a freshman studying philosophy, politics, and economics. Yousafzai, a staunch advocate for global education, turned to Twitter on Saturday morning to ask her followers for their best packing advice.

"Packing for university," she wrote on Twitter. "Any tips? Advice? Dos and dont's?"

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black-ish's Yara Shahidi, who is an incoming freshman at Harvard this year, told Malala to bring books and download podcasts for downtime on campus.

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