The Real Freshman Handbook: A Totally Honest Guide to Life on Campus
by Jennifer Hanson
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Author: Jennifer HansonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-04-25
ISBN: 0618163425
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Reviews of The Real Freshman Handbook: A Totally Honest Guide to Life on Campus
Book Review: A bit disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
There were chunks in this book that I just could not apply to my situation. For example 1/4 of the book dealt with cars and I cannot even drive in Boston so I had to skip that part. Another 1/4 of this book is filled with lists and while the author is helpful in explaining why we might need the items the author doesn't realize that colleges send lists to freshman about what to bring.This book is also based of a female point of view which is a bit of downer for those of us guys trying to find out more about how it will be like to live in a new enviorment. The psychology asserted in the book is of females and the "dialoges" which take place in another quarter of the book are between girls and discuss futile things.
I wish the author would have saved me my money and just used the last 1/4 of the book which was loaded with useful information. I learned that I should not microwave my socks because unlike a dryer they might actually burn them. The author has a good way with wit(however it is based off a female point of view). At any rate there is some useful stuff and it is worth buying if one is willing to skip 3/4 of the book because of the futility it holds.
Summary of The Real Freshman Handbook: A Totally Honest Guide to Life on Campus
In a guide to college life that is a little more realistic than Felicity and a little more fun than Stanley Kaplan, Jennifer Hanson charts a course through the dips and bends of freshman year. Written with the collective “wisdom? of twelve college students from across the country, THE REAL FRESHMAN HANDBOOK is the only one of its kind — a “handy and humorous book that will fit in any first-year?s backpack? (Harvard University Gazette) and that offers an inside look at the real deal on college life from those who have been there — and survived. Hanson gives readers a crash course in avoiding freshman year follies, from filling out roommate questionnaires and evaluating putative hangover remedies to writing papers and studying for exams.
College-bound students will relish the down-to-earth advice, and parents can rest assured that they won?t have to fund a new wardrobe because Junior didn?t separate the colors from the whites. The advice throughout is insightful, smart, practical, entertaining, proving that “Hanson has really done her homework? (U Magazine).
College-bound students will relish the down-to-earth advice, and parents can rest assured that they won?t have to fund a new wardrobe because Junior didn?t separate the colors from the whites. The advice throughout is insightful, smart, practical, entertaining, proving that “Hanson has really done her homework? (U Magazine).
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