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Looking for the perfect high school graduation gift for your college-bound grad? Now in it's 5th edition, the New York Times bestselling Naked Roommate is the #1 go-to guide on dorm and college life! Harlan Cohen's tips and advice on student life -from sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes-provide the behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING freshmen need to know about college (but never knew they needed to know). This essential, fully updated edition is packed with real-life advice on everything from managing money to managing stress. Hilarious and outrageous, with stories from students on over 100 college campuses this book covers the basics, and then some, including: College Living: Dorm dos, don'ts, and dramas; lying, noisy, nasty roommates Finding People, Places and Things: Facebook, Twitter, and beyond; Friend today, gone tomorrow Classes: To go or not to go?; How to get an A, C, or F Dating: 17 kinds of college hookups; long distance = BIG concerns The Party Scene: The punch in the "fruit punch"; Sex, drugs, and the truth Money: Grants, loans, and loose change; Credit cards and online gambling This "hilarious and truthful book" (School Library Journal) offers entering freshman a genuine and insightful look at everyday life.



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Harlan Cohen

Harlan Cohen is a New York Times bestselling author of five books, a professional speaker, nationally syndicated advice columnist, and creator of Best First Year (www.BestFirstYear.com) .He is author of The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College (Sourcebooks) , The Naked Roommate: For Parents Only (Sourcebooks) , Dad's Expecting Too!: A guide for expectant fathers and their partners (Sourcebooks) , The Naked Roommate's First Year Survival Workbook (Sourcebooks) , Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed & Totally Sober) (St. Martin's) , and Campus Life Exposed: Advice from the Inside (Peterson's) . Harlan has been a guest on hundreds of radio and television programs, including the Today Show. He has been featured as an expert offering advice in the New York Times, Real Simple, Seventeen, Psychology Today, and hundreds of other publications. He is a professional speaker who has visited more than four hundred college campuses (TEDx Talk: www.HarlanCohen.com/TEDx) . His "Help Me, Harlan!" advice column is distributed by King Features Syndicate.You can follow Harlan on Twitter & Instagram @HarlanCohen. Find him on Facebook at: Facebook.com/HelpMeHarlan. You can reach Harlan by e-mail at harlan@helpmeharlan.com. Harlan lives in Chicago, Illinois, and is married to his wife, who rejected him via an online dating site before falling in love with him following an unexpected encounter at Mailboxes Etc..



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