Don't leave home without it! * The best, funniest, and most useful survival guide for students * From the best-selling authors of The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak * Illustrated with Steven Appleby's hilarious cartoons You're fantastic, you're the greatest, you're the brainiest, your parents think you're ace, your friends are all envious, your teachers are astounded, in fact you're the best - OK, but...how are you going to cope at college and survive the fresher pressure? Packed with students' descriptions of their own experiences, this book will help you through what could be the most exciting or the most nightmarish period of your life (and will probably be a mixture of both). There are tips on just about everything: from sex, drugs, friendship and food to managing money, finding somewhere to life, organizing your work, and coping with stress. This book is intended for sixth-form pupils, first-year students, and their parents.

 

This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .

There are 237 pages in this book. This book was published 1994 by Oxford University Press .

Aidan Macfarlane is the Director of the National Adolescent and Student Health Unit, and Ann McPherson is a General Practitioner with extensive experience of young people and their problems. They both live in Oxford.

This book has the following chapters: 1. Anticipations, Expectations and Worries; 2. Fresher Pressure; 3. Where to Live, Where to Hang Out; 4. Money; 5. Friends; 6. Sex and Relationships; 7. What Degree would you get in Contraception?; 8. 'I Promise I won't come. '; 9. Food; 10. Exercise and Sport; 11. Blowing Your Mind; 12. Stress and Anxiety; 13. An 'Easy help Guide' to getting you through the work; 14. Harassment; 15. Drink and Fags; 16. When You've got Body Rot; 17. Parts Rot - Sexually Transmitted Diseases; 18. Feeling Lonely, Down, Out of It, and Depressed; 19. To Eat or not to Eat?; 20. Suicidal Feelings; Last Word.