Guest Authors Yadin Kaufmann and Mark Bernstein – How to Survive Your Freshman Year
Today The Book Stacks welcomes authors Yadin Kaufmann and Mark Bernstein who are here to talk about their book How to Survive Your Freshman Year. They are currently on virtual tour. I hope you’ll join me in welcoming them.
How to Survive Your Freshman Year has become a sort of “bible” of college life for entering freshmen, and we just published its 3rd edition. The book offers hundreds of the best practical tips and fun stories to help entering freshmen better navigate their way through this challenging period.
As with any new (and “high-stakes”) experience or challenge, it makes sense to try to get advice from people who have been there, done that, before you. You can learn from other people’s successes – and their mistakes. This book helps you understand what you’re in for, and how to make the best of it, how to avoid mistakes that others have made.
So, for How to Survive Your Freshman Year, we had our interviewers go out and speak with many hundreds of students at over 120 colleges all across the country - big schools, small schools, Ivies, and state universities; Greeks, geeks, and jocks. Our interviewers spoke with students at college newspapers, kids hanging out in the library or in the rec center, on their way to class or lounging around in the dorm. One headhunter in Pennsylvania offered free pizza for students willing to share their advice. The interviewers asked the students questions about every aspect of college life – about what they would advise incoming freshmen, and why. We also collected tips at our web site, www.hundredsofheads.com.
We then compiled the best material that we felt gives our readers direct, informative and humorous advice they might not get, even from their best friends.
There’s also expert advice, guidance and insightful commentary, from the book’s Special Editor, academic advisor and instructor Frances Northcutt. Fran is an academic advisor in the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York at Hunter College, and has advised students at Wesleyan University, the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
How to Survive Your Freshman Year gives entering freshmen great advice on every aspect of college life, including:
• Getting off to a great start in college
• What to take
• Where to live
• How to get a good roommate
• Dorm Life
• Choosing classes
• When and where to study
• Exams secrets
• Filling free time
• The dating and party scene
• Finances, and
• Choosing a major
The book reflects today’s new freshman lifestyle and experiences, with new chapters covering:
• Social networking and Facebook
• Wireless & digital devices
• Student expectations vs. reality
• Changing the world and environmentalism
• Diversity
• Food, fashion, the party scene - and much more
A new appendix provides useful checklists for incoming freshmen.
How to Survive Your Freshman Year gives high school graduates the confidence to approach freshman year, armed with the experience and advice of hundreds of college students who have ‘been there, done that’ – and lived to tell about it.
The book is basically an easy-to-read “freshman orientation” program – written by the experts!
We’ve found that many thousands of parents, uncles, grandmothers, and friends have chosen to give their special high school graduate a copy of How to Survive Your Freshman Year – it’s one high school graduation gift that kids actually will use and enjoy – and it’ll “keep on giving” throughout that all-important freshman year.
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