Some cool things my mom would send me were pictures from the kids she babysat. She would also send me clippings form the local newspaper if it had to do with someone I went to school with or a tecaher or something. It was always nice to get something like that.

Easy packable things would be microwave popcorn, cup a' soup, and those Ramen noodles. I went somewhere where we took a lot of public transportation, so my mom would also send me change for bus and metro fare.