Welcome from VA! I quadruple the cooler idea. You pay a premium to have a nice wooden desktop humidor. Being you are a college student, you don't need a display humidor just yet. Stick with a cooler, and smoke up a storm. I bought a humidor and regret it when I started smoking. Could have saved that $50+ I spent on it for nice smokes. It's just sitting collecting dust and holding my yard-gars.

Andrew