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Chicken soup for the college soul: inspiring and humorous stories about college
Publisher
Health Communications
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
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From the Book
1. Getting in
The wonder years / Hugh Gallagher
Never say never / Rosa Torcasio
College bound / Dave Barry
Bloopers from college admission essays / Richard Lederer
Strange scholarships / Uncle John's Great Big Bathroom Reader
The envelope, please / Rory Evans
If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count / Cynthia Stewart-Copier
Hani / Jamie Winship
Inspiration can be anywhere / Cerie L. Couture
A proposal to myself / Sarah Lockyer
2. Transition
Good-bye, Mr. Blib / Beth Mullally
A Dad says good-bye / Joseph Danziger
College talk / Kimberly Kirberger
The "no hug" rule / Cheryl Costello-Forshey
Shoes in the shower / Lia Gay and Rebecca Hart
Deck the halls / Melanie Fester
A letter from college / Adam Christing
The times I called home from college
The long road home / Lia Gay
Breakdown of family traced to Psych. 1 student / Beth Mullally
3. Lessons from the classroom
Undeclared / Tal Vigderson
Making the grade / Varda one
The good, the bad and the Emmy / David Wiemers
The thought card / Hanoch McCarty
I passed the test / Paula Lopez-Crespin
The wicker chair / Eva Rosenberg
Dissed / Mary J. Davis
How to get an A on your final exam / Tony D'Angelo
A compassionate philosophy / Kristi Nay
Library Science / Jenna McCarthy
Your legacy / Tony D'Angelo
Angels on a pin (101 ways to use a barometer) / Alexander Calandra
Topsy-turvy world / Kimberly Kirberger
4. Lessons from outside the classroom
College wisdom seldom exercised in the summer / Beth Mullally
Learning how to be roommates / Elsa Lynch
The plaster shell / Miriam Goldstein
The great escape / Wendy Marston
Hanging out to dry / Paul Karrer
Wrangler and stranglers / Ted Engstrom
Of mice and maintenance men / Lisa Levenson
Knowing where to tap / Tony D'Angelo
Miracle on Times Square / Gunter David
The dark gift / Kent Nerburn
Reverse living / Norman Glass
Blameless / Kathy Johnson Gale
5. Love 101
Finding my way / Zan Gaudioso
The mirror / Dan Clark
I dare you! / April Kemp
The love I'll never forget / Tim Madigan
Heartbreak 101 / Lauren Fox
What is sex? / Adam Saperston
Swans mate for life / Hal Torrance
6. Acts of kindness
The boy under the tree / David Coleman and Kevin Randall
For the kids / Diana Breclaw
Piano music / Daneen Kaufman
Ten-dollar bills and roses / Mary J. Davis
A not-so-random act of kindness / Will Keim
Christy's last day / Christy Calchera, as told to Dan Clark
The gift of music / Brandon Lagana
Our community / Christa F. Sandelier
7. Friends
The kids in the hall / Suzanna Casamento
My sanctuary / Eric Linder
My friend Kim / Robert Tate Miller
819 Gaffield Place / Michele Bender
An unlikely hero / Tony Luna
With help from a friend / Dorri Olds
8. Tough stuff
My star / Zan Gaudioso
Independence Day / Natasha Carrie Cohen
#38 Chucky Mullins / James Simmons
Zap the Sap! / Eric Saperston
I said no / Natasha Carrie Cohen
The rest of the story / Jo Wiley Cornell
Stuck with no way out / Rosanne Martorella
9. Mind over matter
Breaking the mold / Zan Gaudioso
A better message / Carol Grace Anderson
Homeboy goes to Harvard / Richard Santana
From the heart of a blessed temple / B.T. Thomas
Second kind of mind / JeVon Thompson
Work for your supper / Arlene Green
Catsup soup / Cynthia Hamond
Student super-saver / Kevin Van Gundy
Dare to take risks! / Stephen Hopson
Emma's ducks / Paul Karrer
Consider this / Bill Clinton
All in the family / Jeanne Marie Laskas
Never too old to live your dream / Dan Clark
10. Graduation
Life lessons / Dave Barry
A homecoming of a different sort / Vicki Niebrugge
Two stories for life / Robert Fulghum
Humor them! / Katherine D. Ortega
Know where you're going / Speaker's Sourcebook II
Don't go / George Plimpton.
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9781558747036
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