If you're searching for the right mindset and skills to succeed in your studies and relationships, for inspiration and strategies to sustain your confidence and reduce stress for warning about the things and people that might, sandbag you and how to avoid them, then you've found the right book.
SEARCH draws from the authors' extensive experience, as well as their students' and colleagues'. It offers you realistic specifics about such topics as how to manage your time, discourage unwanted attention, make polite conversation, and avoid sickness and despair. SEARCH will teach you money management.
Gaining skills and factual knowledge are only parts of the college experience. College provides opportunities to explore the nature of the human spirit as it has manifested throughout history. You join humankind in searching to understand how things work, why we do what we do, and where each of us fits in. Whether you are, following in your parents' footsteps or blazing a trail as a first-generation college student, SEARCH will provide strategies for this lifelong adventure.
Learn to make a budget, pick the right major and courses, or go to school living at home. SEARCH will help you understand social groups, survive spring break, overcome insecurity, and savor diversity. You will read about how to assess your date, cope with stalkers, and get through break-ups. Besides practical tips, it will help you address the flood of added freedoms, new ideas, and different ways of living and thinking you will experience. SEARCH is a thoughtful, compassionate, open-minded discussion of both the practical and philosophical realities of college and life that non-students will find relevant as well. Like life, college can be a challenging, soul-searching, gut-wrenching experience at times.
