How To Survive Your Freshman Year

Now revised and updated, this guide offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first year of college and have something interesting to say about it.

How to Survive Your Freshman Year offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first year of college and have something interesting to say about it. Based on interviews with hundreds of college students at every type of higher-learning institution across the country, this book has insights on every aspect of college life, including, what to take to the dorm, living with roommates, Facebook and other social networks, extracurricular activities, choosing classes, studying, going abroad, finances, food, the social scene, doing laundry, staying in touch with friends and family, and much more. Highly readable, much of the book consists of short snippets with some interesting insight and advice from the college students interviewed. The book also includes expert input from college advisors and officers.

"Advice on surviving -- and thriving in -- all aspects of one's first year in college, from hundreds of college students and graduates (as well as several experts)"--

Provides college freshmen with advice on such topics as dorm life, roommates, choosing classes, studying, working, laundry, dating, free time, and fraternities and sororities.

A completely revised and updated values-based guide to navigating the first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping, or skipping their way out of college. In the four years since its initial publication, The Freshman Survival Guide has helped thousands of first year students make a successful transition to college life. However, much has changed on campuses. The explosion of technology, ubiquity of social media, and culture changes have all added new layers of complexity to the leap from high school to college. The Freshman Survival Guide's updated edition features new research and advice on issues such as mental health, sexual assault, and finding balance. It also features expanded sections on dating, money management, and an increased focus on how the over 1.5 million incoming freshman can prepare themselves for the biggest change they've encountered in their lives: heading off to college.

Everyone knows that the first year of high school can be daunting. But you will come out of it alive - and this book can help. Inside, four real teens fill you in on the stuff they wish they’d known. Among other things, there’s advice on how to assimilate into your new social kingdom, deal with failure, survive the lunchroom, create good excuses, and fake sick days. Divided into social, academic, and practical sections of advice, Been There, Survived That also includes humorous tips on what NOT to do, and funny freshman year horror stories. Sure, cafeteria food is always scary, but high school doesn’t have to be.

Surviving the Freshman Year and Beyond is a very practical outline of various survival skills and practices that are absolutely critical to the successful completion of a college education. The systems in the book, if followed diligently, will make graduating with excellent GPA a certainty; and furthermore, graduation will be on time thereby reducing the cost of your entire college experience. The contents of this book are put in a simple format so as to make it easy to read on a frequent basis. This is not a book to read once! It is a book to read until the systems in it become your life style. The section "e;On Time Management"e; is crucial to your academic survival because it teaches you how to efficiently manage your time.

Surviving Your First Year of College covers everything from roommate troubles to class attendance to cash flow to visiting the campus nurse. Whatever you've got a question about, this book covers it-- because nobody wants more than us (except your parents, maybe) to see you not only survive college but actually thrive during your first year. So put down that summer reading, take a break from packing, get your mind off that upcoming goodbye to your significant other, and settle in for a few laughs and a lot of great tips about Surviving Your First Year of College.