The College Survival Handbook: Almost Everything You Need to Get the Most Out of Your College Experience, Except the Diploma [Paperback]

Deborah Clary (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997

Written by a recent college survivor, this handbook is designed to make the transition between living at home and going off to college as easy as possible, with practical information and helpful tips on everything from food to sex to study tips. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 174 pages
• Publisher: Andrews Mcmeel Pub (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836227085
• ISBN-13: 978-0836227086
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,283,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars superficial, amateurish and offensive, March 15, 1999

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This review is from: The College Survival Handbook: Almost Everything You Need to Get the Most Out of Your College Experience, Except the Diploma (Paperback)

As an instructor at the University of California, Irvine where I teach a Freshman year experience course and was disappointed and offended by this book.

This book offers on its cover: "Almost everything you need to know to get the most out of your college experience, except the diploma". While adequately identifying issues faced by college students this book falls woefully short on content and substance. For example, Clary devotes a mere 5 sentences to discussing final exams, 6 sentences to defining "skinny and fat food",one paragraph on "college dating rules" and one paragraph on cramming. To illustrate, her advice on "skinny and fat food" runs along the lines of: "...if you only eat skinny food, you're likely to remain on the thin side, while a diet of fat food will probably lead you down the fat path."

I also found Clary and the editor's(Becker Mayer) decision to include in a highlighted box a comment that is outrightly racist. She described "words of wisdom" from "an unusually insightful" high school teacher who forewarned her in college she would encounter: "Some guy with a thick Far Eastern accent" who would "walk up to the front of the room and lecture for the entire hour without ever looking up from his papers. You won't understand a word". She stated that this described half her college experience and closes by saying the advice from the "unusually insightful" teacher were "Words of Wisdom".

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of information, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The College Survival Handbook: Almost Everything You Need to Get the Most Out of Your College Experience, Except the Diploma (Paperback)

Being a future college student, this book really gave me some information and tips about living in dorms, managing my money, sex, what I may or may not need to bring with me. It was very easy to read and I just found it extremely helpful!