Campus confidential
Campus confidential: the complete guide to the college experience by students for students Robert H. Miller,
Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2006.
ISBN: 0787978558
LCC: LB2343.32
Edition: (pbk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Approaching the college search -- 2. Beating the new SAT -- 3.
Acing the application process -- 4. An investment in your future:
funding your undergraduate education through loans, grants, and
scholarships -- 5. Using the "relevance calculus" to choose your
school -- 6. The ten things to do before you arrive on campus -- 7.
What you need and what you don't need to take to college -- 8. The
eleven things to do right after you arrive on campus -- 9. Keeping
the peace with your roommates and suitemates -- 10. Staying safe on
campus -- 11. A brief overview of the typical "core" curricular
requirements -- 12. Your freshman year goal-setting workshop -- 13.
Choosing your classes: scheduling secrets for the freshman year --
14. Athletics on campus -- 15. An approach to extracurricular
activities -- 16. Fraternities and sororities: determining whether
the Greek life is the life for you -- 17. Study habits and time
management for the college student -- 18. The twenty-three unwritten
rules of college etiquette -- 19. Romance on campus -- 20. Coming out
on campus -- 21. Setting boundaries with sex, drugs, and booze, and
other legal issues for the college student -- 22. Managing stress,
health, and well-being -- 23. Your first semester endgame: how to
approach "reading period" -- 24. Acing your final exams and term
papers -- 25. Looking behind and looking ahead: assessing the damage
and charting the course for your second semester -- 26. Transferring
to another school -- 27. Planning a meaningful freshman summer: the
brainstorming workshop -- 28. Moving off-campus and managing other
housing and roommate decisions -- 29. Your sophomore year
goal-setting workshop -- 30. Choosing a major and designing a course
of study -- 31. Avoiding the sophomore slump -- 32. Planning a
meaningful sophomore summer: the brainstorming workshop -- 33.
Halfway home: the midpoint assessment and junior year goal-setting
workshop -- 34. The junior year (or semester) abroad -- 35. Looking
ahead to graduate school -- 36. The junior "thesis" -- 37. Planning a
meaningful junior summer: the brainstorming workshop -- 38. Your
senior year goal-setting workshop -- 39. Five ways to avoid
senioritis -- 40. Choosing and completing the senior thesis or senior
project -- 41. Working after college -- 42. Applying to graduate
school -- 43. Finding yourself: the case for taking time off after
graduation -- 44. Your graduation planning guide -- 45. Our parting
thoughts.
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