Let’s face it, you’re about to start college, you’re lonely, unsure of how you fit in and you hated your new room-mate on sight. Damn. Well here’s the good news: Dickies backpacks are about to become your new best friend.

Forget trying to impress the cheerleader lookalikes, forget trying to spend time fitting in with the hip, the cool and the beautiful. You’re not there to look pretty, dazzle the opposition or flunk your way through college – you’re there because you want educating.

So why not spend some money on one of the coolest and most popular college backpacks around? They’re definitely hip, cool to the core and they’re certainly beautiful to look at. And, unlike new best friends, they won’t want anything in return.

Your Dickies backpack will never ask you to help it to raise its grades because it spent far too much time flirting with the college football team. It won’t expect you to make it look good by looking less than stunning yourself.

And it will never, ever run off with your college boyfriend.

One of the best is the Dickies Backpack Black Peace Hearts. It’s large enough to handle your files and folders, and comes with an interior pocket for your iPod. Externally it has a zippered pocket on the front and the print is super trendy.

The multi-colored ‘peace sign’ hearts, printed onto a black background make it stand right out. It has an adjustable, padded strap and a carry handle located on the top of the backpack. It’s a good looking backpack all round, functional, fun and fresh.

It will provide you with all you need during college time, won’t moan if you won’t lend it your iPod and it will more than happily follow you wherever you go – so long as you remember to throw it onto your back. Great looking, practical and affordable. Most best friends are rarely more than one of the three.

Dickies Backpack Black Peace Hearts

If you want to make a bit of a statement, and can’t be bothered by going down the usual route, which includes either looking like the college slut or sporting a blue hair dye, the Dickies Basic Student Backpack In Black and White Checkered is a far better way to proclaim your arrival.

It retails at just over 20 bucks and the design is an eye-catching black and white check. It’s spacious, the interior is big enough for all the usual college crap that you’re expected to haul around campus, plus it has an external front zippered pocket, which is good for storing all that stationary you’re going to get through.

It’s manufactured from a tough nylon, so it’s up to handling the usual abuse a college backpack can expect. Unlike new best friends, it won’t wimp out every time you dump it firmly on the floor either.

Dickies - Basic Student Backpack In Black and White Checkered List Price: $22.00

One of the coolest Dickies backpacks is the Dickies Mini Backpack Peace Check. It’s a loud and vibrant mini-backpack, full of color and style. Being smaller than the usual size, this one’s good for the days when all you need is a couple of books, a few pens and your iPod, your blackberry and a random snack.

It’s kind of tom-boyish, and will appeal to the students that don’t do ‘girly’. It’s lightweight and tough; exactly what you don’t need from a new best friend, plus it’s always going to be more reliable. With its adjustable, padded straps and trendy Dickies logo keychain, this is exactly the type of college backpack that will make you stand out from the rest of the 'blah' crowd.

Remember – Dickies backpacks are only for college. New best friends hang around for life.