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Navigating Your Freshman Year (Students Helping Students series)

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Adapting to college life can be a daunting experience. As a current college sophomore, I was asked to advise my younger brother (now a senior in high school) on how to integrate into the university environment. After recounting all of my own experiences, I realized that I neglected many essential elements of freshman life. So, I turned to the available literature. With the exception of Allison Lombardo's, none of the books get the job done. Lombardo provides a comprehensive account of freshman life that will benefit anyone in high school who reads it. The book is a quick, fun, and easy read; I only wish that someone had given me such great tips before I got to college.

I am a guidance counselor and found out about this book last fall at a conference out here in California. I was immediately hooked by its great content, so I bought a bunch of copies for my graduating seniors and they absolutely love it!

This is a great book - I got it as a gift and thought it was on point, honest, and not preachy. I am off to college next year and this was one of the better, non cheesy gifts I got. I wanted to get one for a friend, but realized this is the older edition - there is a new one up on Amazon - just search for Navigating Your Freshman Year - and it ships quicker too.

I have had some disappointments in Freshman Handbooks while preparing for school next year in college, but this book was not one of them. I would recommend it and I am glad that I purchased it.

This book really puts your college freshman year in terms that you can handle, provides great advice from current students who've just gone through it, and now I really feel ready to go away next fall. I'm very glad my father picked this book up for me, and I would recommend it to all high school seniors going to college.

I bought this book for my daughter who's going to school next fall and for my son who's already at school this year - and they both loved it and thanked me!! The guide is filled with so many great pieces of advice, from the students themselves, and it covers every topic I could think of regarding freshman year. Parents of college-bound students: this is a perfect graduation or back-to-school gift!

Should be mandatory summer reading for college bound high school seniors.Informative, down to earth advice to improve and survive the freshman experience. Lombardo has a friendly, intelligent and exciting style that leaders the reader to experience the freshman year before it arrives. Giving this book as a graduation present to my friends.