Product Description

Everything You Need to Know Before College is a definitive, one-stop survival guide to the opportunities, challenges, and potential pitfalls of college life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152779 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 211 pages

Customer Reviews

A good guide to the basics, but deeper social pressures are the real challenge
This is a good book to guide you through the perils of academics and basic college issues. However, the sad fact of most American universities is that exams are easy and you will do great on them if you go to class, do the readings, and study. The greater challenge is dealing with social pressures and lifestyle decisions that can prevent you from making it to class and hinder your ability to study. It is when personal lives impede on academic lives that students begin to struggle. To prepare for college, students need to prepare for the overwhelming social madness they are going to be encountering on campus. I thus recommend you buy a book that deals with real college life like: COLLEGE LIFE EXTREME: Lies, Sex, Drugs and Violenceor Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororitiesor Goat: A Memoir.

Jesus Saves, and so does this book
This book has a "born again" slant to it, but, as an informative and entertaining tool, its appeal could definitely be more widespread. Mr. Turner's writing style is so entertaining and the humor so enjoyable, that he makes the religious angle palatable for the non-believers, and nirvana for Christian teens. He makes the point, several times, that his Christian audience should be respectful of all cultures, creeds, and lifestyles.

Dating, dorm life, physical and emotional wellness, money, and educational involvement are covered. Humor is entertwined with good sense as each segment of the complete college experience is discussed. The warning to wear flip flops in the shower (p.87) is a good example of the mixing of humor with some pretty good advice. And really, a lot of this information would come in handy for thousands of noncollege bound young people - particularly,but not explicitly, Christian - heading out on their own. Kids will have roommates once they leave home, even if they are not in college. They still date, party, have financial dilemmas, and,hopefully, wear flip flops in the communal shower.
50 Ways to Leave Your Mother

Great preparation for college...
I ordered this book a few weeks back, because I was starting to get a little nervous about getting ready for school and what to expect exactly. Mathew Paul Turner, makes this book really enjoyable to read. I found his writing style to be very entertaining. Plus I think the book really hits some key points about what to expect as far as orginizations, friends, dating, class, and life in general at school will be. Now this book is definately from a Christian perspective, but I think it would just as well serve the purpose of a conservative person.

I guess I won't really know how accurate this was until I experience the real thing, but from the people I have talked to about college this book seems to nail the college experience so I can definately recommend it for that reason alone.