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Contents Book Orientation: The stuff before the tips Welcome Students Welcome Parents Welcome Academic Professionals Chapter 1 Arriving on Campus: So Real You Can Smell It, Taste It, and Touch It 1. Expect the unexpected 2. Patience, patience, and more patience 3. Finding your place on campus 4. Ask if you get lost 5. Just be yourself 6. About your parents 7. The fifth wall Chapter 2 Residence Halls: Living, Eating, and Bathing with Hundreds of Strangers 8. Dorm living not doom living 9. Meet people without even trying 10. Residence assistants (or whatever you call them) 11. Not all dorms are created equal 12. The ugly side of residential life Chapter 3 Roommates: Good Ones, Bad Ones, and Everything in Between 13. The ultimate roommate rule 14. The random roommate 15. The best friend roommate 16. Your gay, lesbian, or bisexual roommate (pick one) 17. The noisy, naughty, and nasty roommates 18. Your girlfriend/boyfriend doesn't live here roommate 19. My lying stealing klepto roommate 20. My drunk and/or high roommate 21. The roommate in need Chapter 4 Finding Friends: Your Social or Antisocial College Life 22. The snow globe factor 23. Where to find new friends 24. Why college friends are different 25. Friend today, gone tomorrow 26. High school friends, cows, and cats Chapter 5 Getting Involved on Campus: An All-You-Can-Do-Buffet 27. Getting involved: where ,when, what, how, and why 28. Clubs and organizations: a smorgasbord of opportunity 29. Sports and intramurals: sweating outside the classroom 30. Academic organizations: where smart people gather 31. Religious and cultural activities: your prayers are answered 32. Get involved: travel and see the world for free Chapter 6 Greek Life: Behind The Doors, Windows, And Walls Of Fraternity And Sorority Life 33. Greek life: Getting in a house 34. Fraternity/sorority life: The good 35. Fraternity/sorority life: The bad 36. Fraternity/sorority life: The ugly Chapter 7 Life inside the classroom: Assuming You Wake up and Go to Class 37. To go or not to go 38. Nice professor, nice professor 39. How to get an "a" (or almost an a) 40. How to pass (or barely pass) 41. How to fail 42. If you think it's cheating, it's cheating 43. Take notes here 44. Do it in a group 45. Old exams, sharing notes, and mostly legal ways to pass 46. The major issue: picking one 47. Advice on your advisor 48. Pick a number, any number 49. Time for time management 50. Wine tasting, bowling, and other important classes Chapter 8 Dating and Relationships: Higher Education Of Love, Lust, and Loss 51. The rules of college love (or lust) 52. The college hook up 53. Close distance relationships 54. Long distance relationships 55. High school bitter sweethearts 56. Imaginary and online relationships 57. The friendly relationship 58. Gay, lesbian, bisexual relationships 59. Cheaters, users, and abusers 60. I have no life other than my relationship 61. I got dumped and no longer have a relationship Chapter 9 Sex On and Off Campus: Having It, Not Having It, Hearing Someone Having It 62. Deciding to do it 63. Deciding not to do it 64. Doing it way too much 65. The one-night stand 66. Pimps, ho's, and reputations 67. Sexual souvenirs 68. The U of birth control 69. Possibly pregnant Chapter 10 Drinking On Campus: Tapping the Keg of Truth 70. Drinking on campus 71. Slow down, don't drink too fast 72. Not everyone is drinking 73. The social lubricant 74. Safe unsafe sex and alcohol 75. Sexual assault and alcohol 76. Don't be so stupid that you accidentally kill yourself 77. Drinking and driving 78. Still hung over... 79. You could be an alcoholic if... Chapter 11 Drugs on Campus: The Smoking, Snorting, and Pill Popping Truth 80. About drugs in college 81. How to avoid them 82. Why I don't do drugs 83. Just don't accidentally die 84. College smoking butts Chapter 12 Money, Laundry, and Cheap Eats: Assuming You Have Enough Money to Do Laundry and Eat 85. Loans, grants, scholarships, and loose change 86. Your financial aid advisor: money, money, money, muhhhneeee 87. Part-time jobs, big time benefits 88. A credit card warning and the $600 candy bar 89. Bad checks, bad credit, and other bad ideas 90. Checking out the college checking account 91. Sorry, this book is now "used" 92. Cheap strategies for eating (or barely eating) 93. Warning: this page is not fabric softener Chapter 13 Not Mentioned in the College Brochure: What They Don't Tell You 94. The not so shiny part of the brochure: homesickness and depression 95. Sexual assault happens 96. Freshmen 15, 20, or 30+ and eating disorders 97. To transfer or not to transfer 98. Commuting words to take with you... 99. Diversity: Sexual diversity, religious diversity, racial diversity Chapter 14 College: A Higher Education: It's Almost Time to Say Good-Bye... 100. The u of no regrets 101. Your tip goes here...
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: College student orientation, College students Conduct of life