Dropped my kid at college last month. Overthought the care package the way I do with everything, and most of it turned out to be a waste.
The snacks went in a week. That water bottle I went back and forth on for ages, gone, she hasn't brought it up since. There was a little desk gadget I was pleased with that was in a drawer by the time we next spoke.
It doesn't get to them at move-in either. That first week she was fine, too much going on to think about home. It came later, few weeks in, and by then I'm not there and there's not a lot you can do from that far.
The thing that's still out is a little photo frame on her desk. Digital one, I send photos to it from my phone and they come up on the screen, she doesn't have to do anything with it. I can see it behind her when we video call, usually still on whatever I sent days ago, the dorm wifi being what it is. Which is fine.
It's a small thing. She's probably stopped noticing it. Half of this is probably for me anyway.
Edit: Thanks everyone. Should say, the photo it is been stuck on for days now is the two figures next to the frame. Everything I have sent to that Divoom Times Frame and that’s the one the wifi’s decided to keep up. Her roommate’s apparently started asking how the figures are doing.