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Product Description 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. Includes all you ever wanted to know about: Anticipations, Expectations, and Worries Things I'll miss; things I won't miss; advanced worries; enlarged worries; things to leave behind Fresher Pressure Famous parting shots; arrival; things not to be seen with; the first term; if you feel like running away Where to Live, Where to Hang Out Advance tactics; sharing a telephone; preventing theft Money The hard graft of it; necessary action; money tips for new students; budgeting Friends First friends; the ethnic question; a sense of isolation; romantic involvements; friends left behind Sex and Relationships Sexual advances; straight and gay sex; shyness; celibacy Contraception The choices of contraception; emergency contraception; condoms; supercharging your sex life; the pill; the cap; other methods; `I'm late...'; all about abortion Food Are you a nutritional disaster?; facts about fat; proteins and carbohydrates; vegetarian eating; cooking tips; a few easy recipes Exercise and Sport Physical fitness research; check your stamina; aerobic and anaerobic sports; getting fit; overdoing it; sports injuries; uses