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Mixed Drinks: Alcohol and Academia

by Michael Jung

64 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0701; ISBN 1-4120-0332-6; US$12.95, C$18.00, EUR11.70, £8.20

Hear from a recent grad how to enjoy your time and excel while in college. With true stories from current campus life, this book will both entertain and enlighten you.

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About the Book This book is a description and guide to college living, written for the incoming first-year students or current college students. The pages describe various situations experienced by college students and offers advice to this audience on how to navigate these circumstances. These circumstances include: college dating, Greek organizations, time management, drinking, and course selection. It uses students' stories to weave the description and advice together in an entertaining and informative manner.

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About the Author The Author holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from Luther College. He graduated with honors and was selected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also a three-time academic All-American while being a member of the tennis team. Upon graduation he worked at a large consulting firm. He took a leave from consulting to be the interim head tennis coach at Luther. During which time he continued his research for this book. Michael is blessed with a loving wife and two younger brothers.

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Excerpts

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
1: The Herd Returns
2: Communicating to Resolve Roommate Conundrums
3: First-Year Blues
4: Charting a Course for the Classroom
5: Mixed Drinks: Alcohol and Academia
6: Timing is Everything
7: Mrs. Degree or One Night Fling
8: Greek or Geek
9: The Chaser

INTRODUCTION

Attending college should be one of the best times of your life. It should be fun, scary, exciting, and educational. As an incoming first-year student I did not have the faintest idea as to what to expect upon my arrival at school. In questioning many other college students, I found that very few of them knew what to expect when they arrived on campus for the first time too. Pondering some aspects of college life prior to arriving on campus will help any student make the most of their college experience. The purpose of this book is to excite, inform, entertain, and advise soon to be first-year students about different aspects of college life.

I am convinced that many fears, falsehoods, and anxieties about entering college will be eased or erased after reading this book. Furthermore, the exposure to the various aspects of college life in this book will be of immense value to incoming and current students. Thinking about the various aspects of college life while reading this book and before experiencing these situations, will enhance a student's four years of campus life. Moreover, this book will help the reader avoid costly and painful mistakes, which can have a devastating affect on one's immediate future at school and on the rest of his or her life.

The advice and stories found in this book is a conglomeration of the author's experiences and the author's friends' and acquaintances' experiences at various universities and colleges throughout the United States. Although each school varies and each college has its own unique features, there are many similarities among students' college experiences. This book will draw on many common situations that arise at nearly all colleges and universities. A common theme will emerge through the advice offered; moderation in all things that are good. This theme can then be applied to unique situations at the particular school you are planning to attend.

Another theme that will surface from the book is the notions that college is a time to discover yourself and who you want to become. For many readers, leaving for college will be the first time that they will live away from their parents for an extended period of time. As a young adult, this will be your first experience to make your own lifestyle choices with no adult supervision. You are your own master! This new freedom is coupled with a plethora of new responsibilities. Without parental guidance at school, college brings a variety of cultures together for your experiencing pleasure. The process by which you discover your own likes and dislikes, coupled with little to no adult supervision, offers you the greatest opportunity of a life time; discovering and creating the person you want to be for the rest of your life!

My book's goal is to help the reader to make the best of this exciting opportunity!

THE PERFECT SCHEDULE

First-year students find themselves in a quandary during their first semester. It is very important that their class schedule allow them to develop good study routines and still thrive academically. This is easier proclaimed than accomplished. As an incoming student you are on the bottom of the pecking order in terms of class selection and thus, class availability. If there is a silver lining to this frustrating predicament it is that you have at least seven more semesters to get into the best mix of course selection and meeting times. If you plan to booze on nights other than weekends, avoid classes that meet before 10:30 a.m. even if this means taking the class the following semester. Usually, there's one weeknight to go out, at most colleges it is a Thursday. Thus, try to reserve Friday mornings as a non-classroom learning experience of self-discovery around a toilet bowl. The course selection you decide to register for is dictated to you by graduation requirements and by your specific major requirements. There are general elective courses that you will select for yourself, but for the most part once you choose a major, many of your courses are predetermined. This leaves you responsible for creating the optimal class schedule for each semester. A self-evaluation on your part will go a long way in creating a schedule that matches your personality. This in turn will position you to do your best in the classroom. If you are a morning person, the 7:30 a.m. or 8:00 a.m. classes may not be a hindrance. Similarly, you might like to have your afternoons free, so a mid to late afternoon class may be more challenging than if it met at a different time. Most students I have encountered have trouble with early morning classes.

I can personally attest to the significance of picking a tailor-made course schedule to suit your own needs. I took an 8:00 a.m. class four days a week my first semester at college. I thought that 8:00 a.m. class would be fine because in high school my first class started at 7:30 a.m. I failed to factor in other considerations. As it turned out, I received my worst college grade in that first semester 8:00 a.m. class. The reason I did so poorly had more to do with the time of day that the class was held, and less to do with the nature of the material. Many students think that they'll be in bed by 11:00 p.m. This just is not the case as dorm life has too many distractions. 8 a.m. classes are tough but they are fact of life, so do not schedule labs or other classes that cannot be skipped for early in the morning.

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