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How to survive your freshman year / by hundreds of college students who did : and some things to avoid, from a few dropouts who didn't ; Frances Northcutt, special editor ; created by Mark Bernstein & Yadin Kaufmann.
Van Pelt Library LB2343.32 .H68 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hundreds of heads survival guide
- Hundreds of heads survival guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College student orientation--United States.
- College student orientation.
- College freshmen.
- United States.
- College students--United States--Attitudes.
- College students.
- College freshmen--United States.
- College freshmen--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Survive your freshman year
- Your freshman year
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Hundreds of Heads Books, [2008]
- Summary:
- Offers advice from college students on how to successfully manage the first year of college, covering topics including class schedules and choosing a major, establishing friendships and relationships, and fraternities and sororities.
- Contents:
- Get ready: what to take to college
- Get set: leaving home
- Go: starting out
- Expectations: college dreams & campus reality
- Dorms: the good life?
- Talking to strangers: your roommate & you
- My face, our space: social networking & online communities
- Extracurriculars: clubs, organizations & more
- Filling the daytime hours: choosing classes
- Studying: why, when & how
- Money for your life: working & finances
- Food for thoughts: pop-tarts, beer & other essential nutrients
- Ready to wear: Fashion & (eventually) laundry
- Free time & how to spend it
- Road trip! Vacations & studying abroad
- Friends: good, better, best, or former
- Family ties: keeping in touch & setting boundaries
- Going out, getting serious: dating & sex
- Parties 101: how to have fun & be safe
- Animal house: fraternities & sororities
- More wisdom: good stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else
- Appendix: The essential freshman fill-in list
- Freshman first-aid kit
- The not-too-early study-abroad checklist
- Useful web sites.
- Notes:
- Includes webliography (page 300).
- ISBN:
- 9781933512143
- 1933512148
- OCLC:
- 213372291
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