Books with title Student to Student: A Guide to College LIfe

New college students face a world of adjustments as they take on the challenge of campus life, and one of the biggest tests is learning to thrive in the midst of monumental life change. Student to Student is a collection of reflections written by students, for students, that takes an honest look at the most common pitfalls and opportunities that life on campus affords. These weekly readings are written by Christian college students from a variety of Christian and secular institutions—over 20 schools are represented—and each entry opens a window into real-life campus experiences. Readers will instantly identify with the authentic voices of students finding their way through the maze of college life while growing their relationships with God.

New college students face a world of adjustments as they take on the challenge of campus life, and one of the biggest tests is learning to thrive in the midst of monumental life change. Student to Student is a collection of reflections written by students, for students, that takes an honest look at the most common pitfalls and opportunities that life on campus affords. These weekly readings are written by Christian college students from a variety of Christian and secular institutions--more than twenty schools are represented--and each entry opens a window into real-life campus experiences. Readers will instantly identify with the authentic voices of students finding their way through the maze of college life while growing their relationships with God.

If you’re searching for the right mindset and skills to succeed in your studies and relationships, for inspiration and strategies to sustain your confidence and reduce stress, for warning about the things and people that might sandbag you and how to avoid them, then you’ve found the right book.SEARCH draws from the authors’ extensive experience, as well as their students’ and colleagues’. It offers you realistic specifics about such topics as how to manage your time, discourage unwanted attention, make polite conversation, and avoid sickness and despair. SEARCH will teach you money management. For instance, unless you are buying the print book as an ideal graduation present to be read at home during COVID-19, buying the e-book will save you money and allow you to link directly to many resources.Gaining skills and factual knowledge are only parts of the college experience. College provides opportunities to explore the nature of the human spirit as it has manifested throughout history. You join humankind in searching to understand how things work, why we do what we do, and where each of us fits in. Whether you are following in your parents’ footsteps or blazing a trail as a first-generation college student, SEARCH will provide strategies for this lifelong adventure.Learn to make a budget, pick the right major and courses, or go to school living at home. SEARCH will help you understand social groups, survive spring break, overcome insecurity, and savor diversity. You will read about how to assess your date, cope with stalkers, and get through break-ups. Besides practical tips, it will help you address the flood of added freedoms, new ideas, and different ways of living and thinking you will experience.SEARCH is a thoughtful, compassionate, open-minded discussion of both the practical and philosophical realities of college and life that non-students will find relevant as well. Like life, college can be a challenging, soul-searching, gut-wrenching experience at times. College is a serious undertaking. It calls for a guide that takes college seriously. Luckily, its just a click away from being yours.

New college students face a world of adjustments as they take on the challenge of campus life, and one of the biggest tests is learning to thrive in the midst of monumental life change. Student to Student is a collection of reflections written by students, for students, that takes an honest look at the most common pitfalls and opportunities that life on campus affords. These weekly readings are written by Christian college students from a variety of Christian and secular institutions--more than twenty schools are represented--and each entry opens a window into real-life campus experiences. Readers will instantly identify with the authentic voices of students finding their way through the maze of college life while growing their relationships with God.

Along with a mobile phone, computer, eight tonnes of pasta and £50,000 of savings, The Cheeky Guide to Student Life is one of the essentials that no student can afford to be without. Packed with useful tips and advice, this newly revised edition is a humorous but highly informative survival kit, with everything you'd ever need to know for making the best of your time at university. Along with chapters on housing, finance, politics and the basics of a student cookbook, the volume strays from the beaten path to impart such gems as:- how to recycle essay material- the art of sponging from your parents- how to get elected to the Student Union- hangover cures- how to deal with difficult landlords- what to do at the end of it all should you find yourself with a third in Philosophy and utterly unemployableAside from the authors’ own university experiences, the guide incorporates survival tips and advice from hundreds of UK students.What exactly is in the book:We start with your first week at uni, with advice on preventing your parents from embarrassing you, finding friends, how to cope with homesickness, and the correct approach to fresher’s fair. Then, via a flashback to how you should go about choosing your university (hmmm, too late if you’ve already started term, but luckily there’s also advice on switching both courses and universities), we tackle the thorny issue of essays, how to write them, how to finish them, how to put them off, how to fake a nervous breakdown to put them off some more, and when and where to consider chemical assistance with their completion.Then of course there’s the reason you supposedly came to uni in the first place; the learning bit, i.e. lectures. We cover which to attend and provide detailed tips on how to survive tutorials. And of course there’s a guide to that sterling edifice, the university library, and how to use it – even for studying in.Lifeskills are next, a vast subject comprising all those household abilities you’ve never had to learn because someone else was there to do it for you. We deal in detail with what to do in the absence of the Laundry Fairy, the Washing Up Elf, the Tidy Up Pixie, the Sock Sorting Sylph and the Magic Money Machine, along with how to live amongst the local populace and how to sponge money off your parents.Accommodation is dealt with in terms of both university housing and private sector renting, with thoughts on who to share with, dealing with deposits and inventories, and safety issues with gas, electric, and furniture. And of course, house parties.Everything you need to know about money is here, from selecting bank accounts to getting into debt, dealing with bills, bailiffs, bursaries, budgeting, and even (gasp) getting a job.Even if you primarily eat baked beans you need to know about food, where and how best to shop, what to cook and how to avoid poisoning yourself, and we keep you from keeling over with a breakdown of basic nutrition for both carnivores and vegetarians. And then there’s the other stuff a lot of students put in their faces; alcohol and drugs. We sort out the whys and wherefores of hangovers, hangover cures, and all the major brain stimulants, including their ups and downs (yes, we do feel quite smug about what we did with that phrase).Given the excess hormones floating around every university, you’ll need our lowdown on good and bad societies to join for sex, and how to cope with unrequited love or being dumped. Then there’s health issues; sexual, mental, routine problems, and dealing with doctors. And politics, with an explanation of the student union and how to get elected, as well as how to organise that most studenty of political demonstrations, the sit-in.Finally, it’s time to leave uni, and we help you deal with potential parent disappointment about your results, guide you through graduation day, and give you some clues on what to do next.