Bring your stuff from home...
The idea behind the 30K Durhams so that you can pile all your stuff from home into a matchbox (container) and bring it over. It will not, I repeat NOT furnish your house. If you show up in an unfurnished place and spend your money on site you will get a TV, couch, coffee table, a couple of matresses, and some pots and pans, without much left over for your MMI license.
If anything, bring your own "kitchen starter kit" as the stuff provided isn't what you are used to and you won't have time to think about going out, finding, then buying stuff like spices.
Also bring sheets and a pillow.
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