When Andrea Marr leaves Portland to attend Wellington College in Connecticut, she encounters weird, wild, and brilliant people, and her college career veers wildly off course.
Provides advice to help encourage high school graduates to make smart decisions when it comes to leading a healthy lifestyle and taking care of their bodies, minds, and spirits throughout their college years and beyond.
Tackling the challenges of college while her mother battles cancer, Ariel struggles with memories of her friend who disappeared years earlier and finds answers in relationships with three residents of an old house in Berkeley.
The twins are starting college, which is great, except for the fact that Ashley lands a roommate that wants to compete for everything and Mary-Kate meets the perfect guy but already has a boyfriend.
The author, a teacher of English in China, presents essays by his students on such themes as home and family, childhood, campus life, education, youth, happiness, and China's history and future.