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| Book Orientation: The Stuff before the Tips | |
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| Welcome Students | |
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| Welcome Parents | |
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| Welcome High School and College Educators | |
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| About the Editorial Content | |
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| The Third Edition: 13 Percent More Nakedness | |
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| Third Edition Notes to Specific Readers | |
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| A Final Note to All Readers | |
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| First Page, First Tip, and First Days of College | |
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| Arriving on Campus: So Real You Can Smell It, Touch It, and Taste It | |
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| Expect the Unexpected | |
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| Patience, Patience, and More Patience | |
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| Finding Your Place on Campus | |
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| When Lost or Confused, Ask | |
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| Be Yourself: Not Me, Not Him, Not Her | |
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| About Your Parents | |
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| Homesickness: Breathe Deep, It's in the Air | |
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| Technology: The Fifth Wall | |
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| Residence Halls: Living, Eating, and Bathing with Hundreds of Strangers | |
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| Residence Halls: A Cruise without the Water | |
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| Meet People without Even Trying | |
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| Resident Assistants: Your Personal Assistant | |
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| Not All Residence Halls Are Created Equal | |
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| The Ugly Side of Residential Life | |
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| Roommates: Good Ones, Bad Ones, and Everything in Between | |
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| The Ultimate Roommate Rule | |
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| The Random Roommate | |
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| The Naked Roommate | |
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| The Best Friend Roommate | |
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| The Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Roommate (pick one) | |
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| The Noisy, Naughty, and/or Nasty Roommate | |
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| The Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend Doesn't Live Here Roommate | |
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| The Lying, Stealing, Klepto Roommate | |
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| The Drunk and/or High Roommate | |
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| The Roommate in Need | |
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| Finding Friends: Your Social or Antisocial College Life | |
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| The Snow Globe Factor | |
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| Shopping for New Friends | |
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| Why College Friends Are Different | |
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| Friend Today, Gone Tomorrow | |
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| High School Friends, Cows, and Cats | |
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| Getting Involved on Campus: An All-You-Can-Do Buffet | |
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| Getting Involved: What, Where, When, How, and Why (but not in that order) | |
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| Clubs and Organizations: A Smorgasbord of Opportunity | |
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| Sports and Athletics: Buckets of College Sweat | |
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| Academic Organizations: Where Smart People Gather | |
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| Religious Activities: Your Prayers Answered and the Culture Club (no Boy George) | |
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| The Perks: Travel and See the World for Free | |
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| Greek Life: Behind the Doors, Windows, and Walls of Fraternity and Sorority Life | |
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| Greek Life: Getting In | |
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| Greek Life: The Good | |
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| Greek Life: The Bad | |
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| Greek Life: The Ugly | |
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| Life Inside the Classroom:Assuming You Wake Up and Go to Class | |
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| To Go or Not to Go | |
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| Nice Professor, Nice Professor | |
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| How to Get an A (or almost an A) | |
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| How to Just Pass | |
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| How to Fail | |
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| The Cheat Sheet | |
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| The Art of Reading (or not reading) the College Textbook | |
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| Take Notes Here | |
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| Do It in a Group | |
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| Old Exams, Sharing Notes, and Mostly Legal Ways to Pass | |
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| The Major Issue: Picking One | |
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| Advice on Your Advisor | |
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| Pick a Number, Any Number | |
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| Time for Time Management. | |
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| Wine Tasting, Bowling, and Other Important Electives | |
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| Dating and Relationships:Your Higher Education in Lust, Love, and Loss | |
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| The Rules of College Love (or just lust) | |
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| The College Hookup | |
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| Close-Distance Relationships | |
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| Long-Distance Relationships (LDRs) | |
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| High School Bitter Sweethearts | |
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| Imaginary Relationships and Online Dating | |
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| The Friendly Relationship | |
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| Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Relationships | |
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| Cheaters, Users, and Abusers | |
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| I Have No Life Other Than My Relationship | |
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| I Got Dumped and No Longer Have a Relationship | |
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| Sex:Having It, Not Having It, Hearing Other People Having It. | |
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| Deciding to Do It | |
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| Deciding Not to Do It | |
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| Doing It Way Too Much | |
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| The One-Night Stand | |
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| Pimps, Hos, and Reputations | |
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| Sexual Souvenirs | |
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| The U of Birth Control | |
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| Possibly Pregnant | |
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| Drinking on Campus: Tapping the Keg of Truth. | |
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| Drinking on Campus | |
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| Slow Down, Don't Drink Too Fast. | |
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| Not Everyone Is Drinking | |
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| The Social Lubricant | |
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| Safer Unsafe Sex and Alcohol | |
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| Sexual Assault and Alcohol | |
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| Don't Be So Stupid That You Accidentally Kill Yourself. | |
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| Drinking and Driving | |
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| Still Hungover | |
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| You Might Be an Alcoholic If | |
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| Drugs on Campus :The Smoking, Snorting, and Pill-Popping Truth | |
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| About Drugs on Campus | |
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| How to Avoid Them | |
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| Why Not to Do Drugs | |
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| Just Don't Accidentally Die | |
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| College Smoking Butts | |
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| Money, Laundry, and Cheap Eats:Assuming You Have Enough Money to Eat and Do Laundry | |
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| Loans, Grants, Scholarships, and Loose Change | |
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| Your Financial Aid Advisor: Money, Money, Money, Monnnnneeey | |
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| Part-Time Jobs, Big-Time Benefits | |
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| The Credit Card and the $600 Candy Bar | |
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| Bad Checks, Bad Credit, and Bad Ideas | |
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| Checking Out the College Checking Account | |
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| Sorry, This Book Is Now "Used" | |
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| Cheap Strategies for Eating (or barely eating) | |
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| Laundry Tips: This Page Is Not Fabric Softener | |
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| Things Not Mentioned in the College Brochure: What They Don't Tell You | |
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| The Freshman 15or, Um, 45 | |
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| The Student Body Image | |
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| Exposing the College Eating Disorder | |
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| Depression: The "Other" Major | |
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| Sexual Assault | |
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| To Transfer or Not to Transfer | |
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| Safe, Schmafe | |
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| Commuting? Words to Take with You | |
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| Diversity: Sexual, Religious, Racial— It's All Goo | |