Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arriving on campus : so real you can smell it, taste it, and touch it -- Residence halls : living, eating, and bathing with hundreds of strangers -- Roommates : good ones, bad ones, and everything in between -- Finding friends : your social or antisocial college life -- Getting involved on campus : an all-you-can-do buffet -- Greek life : behind the doors, windows, and walls of fraternity and sorority life -- Life inside the classroom : assuming you wake up and go to class -- Dating and relationships : higher education of love, lust, and loss -- Sex : having it, not having it, hearing other people having it -- Drinking on campus : tapping the keg of truth -- Drugs on campus : the smoking, snorting, and pill-popping truth -- Money, laundry, and cheap eats : assuming you have enough money to eat and do laundry -- Things not mentioned in the college brochure : what they don't tell you -- College : a higher education : it's almost time to say goodbye.

Contains a guide to attending college, from finding friends, and going to class, to taking notes and college living, and provides advice from students on over one hundred college campuses.