Navigating Your Freshman Year
by Allison Lombardo, Kate Jackson & the SHS Editors


"One of the best qualities of the excellent Students Helping Students series is the authors' sure sense of college students today...this book stretches way beyond predictable problems and solutions to offer a full array of possible challenges and useful strategies for solving them."

-- Booklist

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The moment couldn't come too soon - FINALLY! you're off to college! It's exciting, it's awesome, and it's nerve-racking. Meeting new people, living in a dorm, navigating through the maze of new classes and activities, tackling academics, and keeping your sanity through all of this can be quite daunting.

Don't panic because you're not alone. We've got some tested and proven tips from freshman year survivors to get you through it.

Check out our student-written articles below:

BE CREATIVE IN MAKING FRIENDS

SET REALISTIC RULES AND MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR ROOMMATE

LEARN THE ART OF PRIORITIZATION

KNOW TROUBLE AND HOW TO AVOID IT

GET A JOB YOU CAN HANDLE

EAT AS HEALTHY AS YOU CAN

• Read a sample chapter! - DEAL WITH LEAVING HOME


 

"This is the most comprehensive guidebook on the subject that I have ever read (and I've read several) and I was incredibly impressed with it for its honesty and for its coverage of every topic that I could think of related to the freshman year of college."

Sophomore,
Middlebury College


"As a current freshman, I find that this guide offers interesting and useful advice. It was a great read definitely. The chapters cover each major category of concern for an entering freshman."

Freshman,
Harvard University


"The guide is very impressive. The information presented is highly relevant and the advice realistic. With its relaxed style, numerous personal accounts and humorous essays, this guide is an informative, interesting read."

Freshman,
University of Pennsylvania
 
Read interviews with and essays by students about freshman year!

First Impressions - by Catherine Connelly, Sophomore at the University of Delaware

An Interview with Deepu Murty, Brown University Senior

An Interview with Ellen Wernecke, Brown University Freshman

Laundry Days - by Jay Harris, Sophomore at Columbia University

Study Tips - by Owen Whitehurst, Freshman at Emory University

Catching Up - by Jamay Liu, Brown University Sophomore

Alarm Clock - by Jonathan Feinstein, Junior at Wesleyan University

An interview with Katie McGinigle, a Senior at Tufts

An interview with Stanley Fourteau, a Senior at Columbia

WWF Wresting - Penn Style - by Sujit Suchindran, a UPenn Senior
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Freshman Year: Get Through it with Success

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