TY - BOOK AU - McGrane,Bernard AU - Gunderson,John AU - Anderson, Terri L., TI - This book is [not] required: an emotional and intellectual survival manual for students SN - 9781452217185 (pbk. : acidfree paper) AV - LA229 .B386 2014 U1 - 378.198 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - SAGE KW - College students KW - United States KW - Universities and colleges KW - Psychology KW - Social aspects KW - College student orientation N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index; Part I. Academics and learning. 1. Welcome to college ; 2. Grades : can you perform without the pressure? ; 3. Technology and learning ; 4. Everybody hates to write -- Part II. Navigating the institution. 5. Support your local teacher : or the care and feeding of professors ; 6. An academic question ; 7. Questions of academic integrity ; 8. Wisdom and knowledge ; 9. Pursuing wisdom in the academy ; 10. Adventures in desocialization ; 11. Media me -- Part III. Survival strategies. 12. Survival skills ; 13. Love ; 14. Trouble with parents ; 15. The painful avenues of upward mobility ; 16. Graduation : what they forgot to mention ; 17. The career : friend or foe? ; 18. Directing our own development ER -