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Chicken Soup for the College Soul: Inspiring and Humorous Stories for College Students (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

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I received Chicken Soup for the College Soul, for Christmas during my senior year of highschool. During this time, like many seniors, I was completely stressed out over choosing and appling to colleges. The stories in this book helped me to realize that college can be a lot of fun and is not something to stress out about. The section titled Transition was the most helpful to me. Saying good-bye to the only family and friends that you have known during your life is hard. This section shows how other seniors handled saying good bye to life long friends and saying hello to students on their new campuses. High school seniors have a hard time showing emotions and admitting to others that they are afraid of what lays ahead. This book explains different aspects of college life and how to handle them. The best way to learn about college life is from people who have experienced it. Chicken Soup for the College Soul is made up entirely of stories people have written about their college experiences. If you know a high school student I highly recommend purchasing this book for them. Going to college is going to be scary, but having a book full of people who have been in my situation and survived will give me the courage to conquer college life.

I found Chicken Soup for the College Soul is a very humorus and entertaining book. In many ways this book hit home, and not only because I am a college student myself, but because I am a young adult and going through many changes in life, as are the writers in this book. This is a very easy to read book because it is seperated into many different very touching, humorous, and informational stories. This book gives young adults and collage students a good chance to hear stories about other people and and there reactions to certain incedents. It may even give the reader a chance to learn from there mistakes, or even just be able to relate to someone else. In the fast moving world today it is very easy to forget that there are other people dealing with the same everyday stresses and challenges, and this book gives the reader a chance to sit down and find the humor and the sadness to alot of these experiences. I highly recommend anyone to read this book.

I am a college student, and as every college student knows, having a book to help you get through it is always helpful. This book has so many wonderful stories that can be enjoyed when your sad, happy, or angry. You'll definitely want to pick this one up.

This book is such a success! It illustrates college times in a very heart-felt way, I should say, it doesn't only talk about the tough times, but also the happy and funny part of being a college student. This books also offers hope when you are lack of it, so do buy it!

I am getting ready to go to college in two weeks and I was so nervous. After reading just half the book I am so excited to go and I feel like I know what to expect. It put things into a different perspective for me becasue i know no whatever happens it will be a learning experience. Anyone going to college should read this book.

I just finished reading Chicken Soup for the College Soul and found the book, like all the Chicken Soup books, to be totally awesome. This book would make a great gift for graduating high school seniors and/or any college student. The stories are inspiring and help students realize there is hope of surviving through college.

If you want to read about real college experience I advise you to read Chicken Soup For The College Soul. It is filled with stories that can relate to your own college experience. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry.

After my first semester at Vienna's university I paid my aunt in the US a visit. I can't remember why, but she told me about the "chicken soup" books (in Austria I never heard about them before), and when I left she gave me this book. To all you college students out there, if you ever sit at home after a REALLY LONG day, feeling just down and tired: Read one or two of those short stories.. It will make you feel better... believe me.

Just like the little red cans filled with Campbells soup the stories in Chicken Soup for the College Soul are mm mm good! This collaboration of stories from numerous individuals helps the reader relate to real life college experiences. Each one of the stories is personalized and easy to comprehend. Four different authors, Jack Canfield, Mark Hanson, Kimberly Kirberger, and Dan Clark put the book together. The authors offer their own experiences as well as the experiences of others. The reader is able to reenact the experiences through day-to-day life. The book touches on different topics each one having significance in college life.
Coming into college is a big change. The reality seems to hit you when you find yourself eighteen, three hundred miles away from home, and legally an adult. Chicken Soup for the College Soul was given to me as a graduation present my senior year in high school. I had read some of the other chicken soup books and was hoping this one would live up to my expectations. I was right, it met my expectations and gave me more encouragement than I expected.
One of my favorite categories in the book is Love 101. Being a freshman three hours away from home it is easy to find yourself heartbroken and lonely. The story, Finding My Way, by Zan Gaudioso filled my heart with warmth the first time I read it. This particular story is about a young girl starting college without a friend in the world. Desperately needing an attachment to someone she clamps on to one of her professors. The relationship that started with a schoolgirl crush moves on to a friendship with the professor, his family, and his special little girl, Lily. Lily had cystic fibrosis and needed individual care. As the college student baby-sat Lily for her professor a unique friendship developed. Lily gave the girl direction. Because of the involvement with Lily the student realized what career moves she wanted to pursue. The student received a bachelors degree in special education. Just as Lily showed the young girl direction this story along with many more set my heart in the right direction.
After reading some of these stories an overwhelming feeling of kindness came over me. I felt as though I wanted to help people and the readings made me believe that even though I am just a student I can make a difference. One of the sections in Chicken Soup for the College Soul, Acts of Kindness, made me realize that the world isnt so cold and empty. People really do care. The story, Our Community, by Christa F. Sandelier revealed to me the compassion that lives within all of us. The story pertains to nine-college students home, which gets destroyed in a fire. Left with nothing it seemed a hopeless situation, but the other college students of the community had hope for the victims. They worked tirelessly passing out flyers, taking donations, and putting together fundraisers. All the earnings were given to the fire victims. In college its sometimes easy to feel as though no one cares. This story proved me wrong.
The book is beautifully put together, starting with getting in college and ending the college transition with graduation. In the beginning of every new section there is quotes pertaining to the subject and experiences. As a college student and a writer these quotes give me strength and motivation. I live by these quotes now and find myself reading them again and again during troubled times. Saint Francis DeSalas said, Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. This quote is one of my personal favorites that I found while reading this book. Different people ranging from Hollywoods, Jodie Foster, regular college students, college professors, and administrators wrote these quotes and stories. Intending to touch all the readers, students, and graduates the stories will clothe you heart with experiences of gentleness, death, humanity, and even classroom life.
Not only is this book valuable to the college students, parents can find this book to be very helpful in understanding the issues their son or daughter will be faced with in their college years. The stories prepare students for life on and off campus. These heart filled stories can be extended from college years to the workforce. Learning in college is not always focused on books and classes alone. Some of the most important lessons learned in these developmental years are learned through experiences outside of the classroom. Chicken Soup for the College Soul helped me get a head start on learning and becoming who I am. I cant say that about many other books.
The writers of the stories have their own styles. Even though the writing style changes from story to story the realization and vivid illustrations given to the reader made me feel as though I had experienced the same thing as the writer. The stories are easy to relate to and I found myself comparing my own college experiences to the stories. In more than one case I felt just as the writer. As I read Finding My Way, by Zan Gaudioso I thought back to the very first day I arrived at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had stood in the registration line feeling small and lost just as the young girl had felt in Gaudiosos story. College seems like such a large and scary word when youre just entering. Chicken Soup for the College Soul seems to break the word, college, down into smaller subjects and help explain the importance of each part of campus life.
I found the collection of stories to be more useful to me during my first semester of college than any counseling services or other readings. The stories seem to be as genuine as having a conversation with an old time friend about past experiences. I recommend this book to any individual whether theyre just graduating from high school or graduate school. It is always good to read and remember real experiences. Grayson Kirk once said, The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This unique quote was published in Chicken Soup for the College Soul and sums up the meaning of the book for college students trying to discover their place in the world.

I'm only on page 76 and I'm bored. I thought this book was going to be full of stories from college students but I'm seeing essay from parent after parent after parent (even though the one about hugging was very cute!) I'm disappointed and I'm glad I didn't pay much for it, because I'm selling it right now.