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Most of the information in Harvard's freshman handbook centers around traditional but boring subjects such as discipline policies and academic resources. Sure, we all need to know where the library is, but what about removing that pesky chocolate stain? What about advice on filling out roommate forms, so as not to end up living with Mike "Smokin' Chimney" Jones...
Jennifer Hanson '97 has the answers in her new book called The Real Freshman Handbook: An Irreverent and Totally Honest Guide to Life on Campus. Hanson covers everything from first meeting roommates to buying a computer to decorating your dorm room...
...little problems students face in the sometimes indimidating first year of college that fill the bulk of The Real Freshman Handbook. "It's not that I made a huge number of bloopers freshman year," Hanson told The Crimson, "but it actually would have helped me a lot if I had a stain list...
...Handbook also has some suggestions on the all-important subject of food, both in dining halls and out. For instance, now that reading period is here, and some of us are spending every waking hour in Lamont or Cabot, what about meals? Hanson has the answers...
Much of The Real Freshman Handbook is filled with this kind of whimsical humor, intended to make all the details of leaving home less intimidating. Hopefully, by the time they have made it through their first year, students have learned these essentials of college life, so Hanson's book is intended primarily as a graduation present for a high-schooler...