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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Trinity College Dublin is famed for the intelligence and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on the unsuspecting dons. This fascinating volume recalls some of the greatest stunts, japes, and practical jokes in the College's history, including: The 19th-century "Battle of Botany Bay," where the students led...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Does the thought of a college-level mathematics course fill you with anxiety and dread? With a little practical advice and positivity, you can easily and effectively put your math-related fears to rest!A Students Guide to Math Success: Overcoming Barriers provides you with a toolbox of strategies to help you approach math courses with a positive attitude, overcome the key stressors associated with learning mathematics, and develop skills that will...
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English
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Now a "New York Times" bestseller! From sharing a bathroom with 40 people to sharing lecture notes, "The Naked Roommate" is a behind-the-scenes look at everything students need to know about college. This essential guide is packed with expert advice, plus outrageous stories from students on over 100 campuses.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The transition from high school to college can be a difficult one, full of new experiences, stressful demands, and important choices. As you navigate this big life change, it's easy to lose track of the one thing you should always strive to take care of -- yourself.A Student's Guide to Self-Care provides you with simple, effective ways to think about and live a healthier lifestyle as you settle in to college life. The guide offers you a holistic approach...
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Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 2011, Jana Mathews's career took a surprising turn. What began as an effort for a newly minted college professor to get to know her students turned into an invitation to be initiated into a National Panhellenic Conference sorority and serve as its faculty advisor. For the next seven years, Mathews attended sorority and fraternity chapter meetings, Greek Week competitions, leadership retreats, and mixers and formals. She also counseled young men...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Straight talk and tips from top students to help make academic excellence a lifestyle. Getting a passing grade is one thing-cramming to memorize facts, knowing what's on the test, finishing a paper just before the deadline-but being a top student is something else entirely. So what makes the difference between a good student and a top student? Being a top student is a lifestyle, not just an A on your transcript. The Secrets of Top Students: Tips,...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Roommate Book is all about celebrating this short season of life. It's the time between parental curfews and settling down with a significant other. It is for the single and proud, silly and crafty, witty and thrifty. It's a non-serious look at how to live with a friend (or total stranger). Nuggets of wisdom are included, but so are comical pie charts, hypotheticals, illustrations, and brief essays. This book invites passersby to thumb through...
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English
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From bestselling author Reyna Grande--whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country--comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scholarship Strategies empowers students to be uniquely proactive towards their scholarship search process, enabling them to find more scholarships than with the traditional approach through the guidance and college offices at their schools.
The current approach to finding scholarships to reduce college costs is not giving families the results they need. College costs continue to rise and so does student loan debt. As a recipient
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Reyna Grande tenía nueve años cuando cruzó la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos buscando un hogar y el reencuentro con sus padres, quienes la habían dejado en su tierra natal para migrar a Los Ángeles en busca de una mejor vida. Sin embargo, lo que encontró fue a una madre indiferente y a un padre alcohólico y violento, en un país cuyo sistema educativo menospreciaba sus raíces. Reyna se refugió en las palabras. Su amor...
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Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
[Revised edition].
Language
English
Description
Geared to equip students for the front lines of the college experience, The College Handbook is a funny and insightful manual on everything a freshman needs to know to make the transition from high school to college, from home life to dorm life. From filling out the dreaded roommate questionnaire and choosing courses to studying for exams, writing papers, doing laundry, and surviving the social scene, Jennifer Hanson covers it all with a sense of...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As a lifelong teacher, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of kids go off to college. Some return to visit after their first year exuding the vibe of conquering heroes. Others look, well, pretty bummed out. This book offers a plan to help the new college student complete Year #1 as a member of the first group. With anecdotes from current college students and recent graduates, the book presents five simple rules: Rule #1: Go to Class - I've never known...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"I'm not ready for college yet... "
Those words need not cause panic and fear for parents. Taking time off before or during college is no longer the road less traveled for many students in the United States. A gap year offers students the opportunity to gain focus and discipline, learn to set realistic goals, get real-world experience, and ultimately get the most out of a college education.
A complete resource, “The Gap-Year Advantage” provides...
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller--with over 91,000 copies in print--that takes you behind closed doors to see what really goes on in America's sororities. Ever wonder what sorority life is really like? In Pledged, bestselling author Alexandra Robbins goes undercover to expose the dark side of collegiate sisterhood--the psychological abuse, hazing rituals, and widespread body image disorders--while at the same time introducing us to...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Using groundbreaking research and diverse interdisciplinary evidence, The Indoor Epidemic explores what we've lost with the great migration indoors and how it affects our schools, our children, and ourselves.--COVER.
"The Indoor Epidemic is an accessible, readable book that educators, parents, policymakers, and general readers can use to develop an in-depth understanding of the role the outdoors has played in our evolutionary and cultural history,...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, The Company He Keeps explores many factors--such as class,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What is the price of an education at a top public high school?
Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during his year inside this world of high achievement and high pressure.
Students work nearly around the clock, building futures to please parents as much as themselves....
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Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education. No fraternity embodies this problem more than Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national organization with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers spread over 230 chapters nationwide. While SAE enrollment...
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