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How to survive your freshman year: What to bring
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Hundreds of Heads Books
4 September 2007
Heading to college? Here’s some advice about what to take with you from the book "How to Survive Your Freshman Year" (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $14.95), straight from people who’ve done it:
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"An excellent pair of studio-grade headphones for those times when you want to jam but your roommate wants to snooze. You cannot get through college without your music."
- Margot Carmichael Lester, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduate
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"Communal showers are gross, so bring shower shoes. Everybody wears them, except for my roommate. But at least she took showers!"
- Sierra, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, junior
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"Laptops are a must. If it has wireless Internet, you can take it to Starbucks or the student center to study. This will help you get away from that annoying roommate. Also, it’s a huge pain to move a heavy computer into the dorms."
- Susan Morganbesser, Pennsylvania State University, graduate
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"Bring warm clothes if you go to school up north. I’m from Miami and I didn’t know what a winter coat was. Now I have a couple, and an umbrella."
- Hilary Tress, New York University, junior
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"A Frisbee. You can make friends just by going out in the quad and throwing it around. People come by and play."
- Josh Stafford, University of Virginia, graduate
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Hundreds of Heads Books’ survival guides offer the wisdom of the masses by assembling the experiences and advice of hundreds of people who have gone through life’s biggest challenges and have insight to share. Visit www.hundredsofheads.com to share your advice or get more information.
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© 2007, Hundreds of Heads Books, Inc.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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I can empathize with your new client. As a child, as for many years as an adult, I had no real confidence in myself, regardless of accomplishments. When I was a child, my parents tried to teach me the lesson of the ‘Little Engine That Could.’ As you recall, it could because it though it could. Whenever they told me that, I say: “but I don’t think I can”, as that was a far as it ever went.
When I was in college I read a science fiction novel in which the main character (if I recall, I don’t really remember the details) was consumed by fear. So he learned this small poem, which I memorized and said it over and over to myself:
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”
Recently I looked it up. It is from a book by Frank Herbert in the Dune series. Regardless of its origins, it really helped me; it helped that I memorized it and repeated it to myself a million times a day.
Well, there are other things that helped my in conquering fear and in ability to be confident, but that was one of the first steps.