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.
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New York Times op-ed by Jennie Capo Crucet
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"How long was my family supposed to stay for orientation? This was 1999, so Google wasn't really a verb yet, and we were a low-income family (according to my new school) without regular Internet access. I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America -- my parents were born in Cuba..."
By Jennine Capo Crucet, NYT
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" I was still not prepared for how dead campus would feel. I thought I'd pick up extra shifts at my work-study job: Wrong -- the campus movie theater was closed. Fine, I thought, I'll get to study in the choice spots at the library: Wrong -- the libraries were closed. Fine, fine, at least I'll get to eat at the dining hall that normally has long lines: The only campus dining hall that was open, with very limited hours, was not the good one. The students like me who stayed had certain similarities, I noticed. We mostly spoke a language other than English at home. We tended to be the first in our families to go to college, or we were the first in our families to be born in America -- or we weren't Americans at all. "