Books of notes
Careers and Colleges, March-April, 2004
* How to Survive Your Freshman Year edited by Mark Bernstein and Yadin Kaufmann (Hundreds of Heads, 2004). Eight hundred college students and recent grads share their personal stories and advice on roommates, study habits, dorm living, money, fashion, and laundry.
* U.S. News Ultimate College Directory 2004 edited by Anne McGrath (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003). Which schools award the most need-based aid? Where do students graduate with the most debt? What are the schools whose freshmen are least likely return. This hefty new guide from U.S. News & World Report profiles 1,450 four-year colleges and universities and provides a wide variety of lists that can help students compare schools.
* Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, and Jennifer Worick. (Chronicle Books, 2004). Learn these valuable first-year survival skills such as: How to sleep in class? How to ask you parents for money? How to avoid the "Freshman 15"? and How to pull an all-nighter?
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