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    Leaving For and During College

 

The process for getting ready to leave for college is actually that of setting up a new home and family: physically, financially, emotionally and socially. And it's not just the kids who have to make the adjustment.

In the Life Skills portion of the Survival Skills Section, many of the below topics were initially addressed. In this section we bump it up a few notches.

 

(click on the following headings for further information)

Finances
    Getting Ready to Leave
    While Away

Packing List

Computers and Technology

Dorm rooms and mates

Health, Nutrition, Sleep and Medical

Student Adjustment Process
    Academic
    Emotionally
    Socially
    Stress
        Junior Year

Parents' Corner Issues
    Care Packages
    Privacy
    Empty Nest

Emergencies

Safety Issues
    Common Sense
    ID Theft
        Federal Trade Commission's ID Theft site   www.consumer.gov/idtheft

    Physical
    Harassment
    Crime
    Fire
    Drugs, Alcohol and other possible Addictives

Rules of the Road
    Auto
    Bikes

Manners and Courtesy

Ethics

Greek Life

 

 

    References

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
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