The Freshman Survival Guide, Nora BradburyHaehl
The Freshman Survival Guide, Nora BradburyHaehl
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The Freshman Survival Guide
Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything In Between

Author: Nora Bradbury-Haehl, Bill McGarvey

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Center Street

Published: 04/04/2017

Synopsis

A completely revised and updated values-based guide to navigating the first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping, or skipping their way out of college.

In the four years since its initial publication, The Freshman Survival Guide has helped thousands of first year students make a successful transition to college life. However, much has changed on campuses. The explosion of technology, ubiquity of social media, and culture changes have all added new layers of complexity to the leap from high school to college. The Freshman Survival Guide's updated edition features new research and advice on issues such as mental health, sexual assault, and finding balance. It also features expanded sections on dating, money management, and an increased focus on how the over 1.5 million incoming freshman can prepare themselves for the biggest change they've encountered in their lives: heading off to college.

About Nora Bradbury-Haehl

Nora Bradbury-Haehl is the coauthor of The Freshman Survival Guide and a nationally recognized voice in the conversation about young people and religion. For more than twenty-five years she's worked with youth and young adults in churches, camps, and interfaith programs forming young people in faith, providing pastoral care, companioning them through the challenges and joys of young adulthood, and building caring supportive communities for and with them. An experienced and inspiring speaker, Nora has been a frequent presenter at churches, schools, and the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), leading workshops for large groups of young people and their adult leaders.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna on June 22, 2019

Personally, the part of this book that I found most helpful was the chapter on procrastination. Aside from that, there were a couple of sentences that I found to be useful advice to me scattered throughout the various chapters, but overall the book didn't really do anything to help me. I wasn't expe......more

Goodreads review by Daughter of Paper and Stone on May 26, 2022

Read and highlighted important parts for my sister. It got repetitive after a while and some of the advice I would not give (hence why there are a lot of side notes in her physical copy). It is an overall guide that does its job. I cannot fault it for what it set out to do even if it was a bit full......more

Goodreads review by Grace on September 05, 2022

The book was very informative and made me feel more prepared for my college journey.......more

Goodreads review by Peyton on March 07, 2022

I am a senior in high school and reading this book has helped prepare me for college. Many things Nora Bradbury included in her book such as meeting new people, study styles, and how to stay focused, opened my eyes to how different college is going to be from my small high school. The author did an......more

Quotes

THE FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE is a strikingly clever work from Bradbury and McGarvey in which the potentially tremulous first weeks of college life are dissected into 25 must know survival tips. From healthy relationship building to avoiding the disastrous pull of procrastination, the guide colorfully dispenses common sense and holistic development. The newest members of any college community will find in this guide a wonderful blend of down-to-earth advice and answers to the deepest of life questions. It is not afraid to address the big life questions of faith, service, the meaning of life and one's spiritual journey. I can not think of a better gift to give a son or daughter, a niece or nephew, a godchild or grandchild who is heading off to college.—Michael Galligan-Stierle, Ph.D., President, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities

Every young person goes to college with a computer-and now they need to go with THE FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE.—Bob McCarty, Executive Director, National Federation of Youth Ministry

College students arrive on campus with impressive resumes and advanced academic skills. Many, however, do not have the ability to confront the profound questions of meaning, values or spirituality that will face them as they enter the adult world. This book makes an important contribution to helping college students navigate these defining moments.—Wayne L. Firestone, President, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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