Navigating Your Freshman Year

By Allison Lombardo

Book Overview

No doubt you've been bombarded with expert advice from your parents, professors, and countless advisors. It's time you got advice you can really use - from fellow students who've been where you're headed All Students Helping Students guides are written and edited by top students and recent grads from colleges and universities across the U.S. You'll find no condescending advice here - just stuff to help you succeed in tackling you academic, social, and professional challenges Written and edited by current college students and recent graduates, each book in this series of student guides focuses on a particular topic of interest to high school or college students and includes helpful advice and effective strategies for tackling that particular task. Encouraging and informative quotes and personal essays from students, as well as suggestions from teachers, professors, and advisors, accompany the content of the guide. Interspersing advice with first-hand student accounts, quotes, and interviews, this essential guide for college freshmen helps them successfully navigate through their first year at school. Realistic and brutally honest tips are provided, including what essentials to pack; how to live in peace with roommates; how to choose the right classes; how to deal with the challenge of college academics; how to take advantage of campus resources and make friends by getting involved; and how to enjoy the social scene and stay physically and emotionally fit. Also included is a practical section on how to think about transferring to another school.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061391273X
• ISBN13: 9780613912730
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Great Gift for Your Students

I am a guidance counselor and found out about this book last fall at a conference out here in California. I was immediately hooked by its great content, so I bought a bunch of copies for my graduating seniors and they absolutely love it!

Very Impressed

I have had some disappointments in Freshman Handbooks while preparing for school next year in college, but this book was not one of them. I would recommend it and I am glad that I purchased it.

A Must For All Pre-Frosh

Adapting to college life can be a daunting experience. As a current college sophomore, I was asked to advise my younger brother (now a senior in high school) on how to integrate into the university environment. After recounting all of my own experiences, I realized that I neglected many essential elements of freshman life. So, I turned to the available literature. With the exception of Allison Lombardo's, none of the books get the job done. Lombardo provides a comprehensive account of freshman life that will benefit anyone in high school who reads it. The book is a quick, fun, and easy read; I only wish that someone had given me such great tips before I got to college.

One mother's advice: buy this book!

I bought this book for my daughter who's going to school next fall and for my son who's already at school this year - and they both loved it and thanked me!! The guide is filled with so many great pieces of advice, from the students themselves, and it covers every topic I could think of regarding freshman year. Parents of college-bound students: this is a perfect graduation or back-to-school gift!