Navigating Your Freshman Year: How to Make the Leap to College Life-and Land on Your Feet (STUDENTS HELPING STUDENTS) - Softcover

Students Helping Students

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073520392X ISBN 13: 9780735203921

Publisher: Prentice Hall Press, 2005

Synopsis

The orientation sessions might tell freshman where the student union is-but only the true experts can offer the real lowdown on college life. From making peace with a difficult roommate to choosing the right classes, in this guide college students and recent grads tell freshman all they need to know to get through their first year with flying colors.

About this title

From Booklist:

Gr. 10-12. There's lots of good advice in the pages of this guide, written and edited by college students and recent graduates and broken up into short chapters. Pulled quotes, sidebars, and bulleted lists will also help the new frosh. It's all very positive and upbeat, verging at times on the preachy. And even though this is written by young people, the book seems to be a little behind the times: concern about loud music in the era of the iPod and dorm phone use in the age of the cell? Leaving home, doing laundry, forming good study habits, finding friends, and seeking help are all dealt with efficiently, if not comprehensively. Another useful title in this series is Getting through College without Going Broke: A Crash Course on Finding Money for College and Making It Last . GraceAnne DeCandido
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Review:

...offer[s] practical, easy-to-absorb bits of advice that can immediately be put into practice. -- Booklist

These are the kinds of guides a guidance counselor might love, with a mentor's nurturing tone. -- The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 073520392X
• ISBN 13: 9780735203921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176