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The College Survival Guide
A Fridge
Regardless of whether you have a wonderful sized meal plan, your fridge may come in handy with leftovers or when you feel like stocking it with bottled drinks.
Computer
The convenience of a computer is essential when sending your kids off to college. Forget the hike to the computer lab across campus students need a computer in the comfort of their room. A printer comes in handy as well. Depending on whether your child plans to carry his laptop around campus, you might opt for a desk top since they're lighter on the pockets.
Snacks
You will surely survive with off of a meal plan but it doesn't hurt to stock up on snacks when you don't feel like leaving your dorm room. Bottled water, pop corn, cereal and Ramen noodles are all low budget snacks to stock up on. Just be weary of the freshman 15.
Things from home
Some college students suffer from homesickness the first year. It's best to surround yourself with things like photos of the family, pillows or even stuffed animals. Anything that reminds your child of home.
MP3 Player
With all the stress that comes from school and exams, sometimes it's nice to block out the chaos in your life and even your roommate with music. It's nearly impossible to find students walking to class who aren't jamming to tunes.
Budget
Students who enter college often come in at the ripening age of 18. A great time for credit cards. Parents beware, your child may end up ruining their credit at a young age
Alarm Clock
When you're in college you don't have the luxury of getting awaken by your parents. It's now your responsibility to get to class on time so alarm clocks are a must. But keep your roommate in mind. You shouldn't wake him up ever morning with a blow horn alarm.
Cleaning supplies
Now you don't necessarily need to bring in the rubber gloves, mop and gas mask but it doesn't hurt to bring along Clorox all purpose wipes for spills or dust. Vacuums and brooms come in handy too depending if you have a carpeted dorm.
Bedding
What most parents aren't aware of is that most college beds are twin sized but extra long and require special sheets. When shopping keep your eye open for sheets that clearly state 'extra long' or else your child may come up short.
Shower shoes
You really don't know what some people do in the shower these days. College showers are known to be creeping with germs so spare yourself the fungus and purchase flip flops for the shower. You'll thank us later!
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By: martha on 1/29/2009 1:37PM
1/29.09
Hi Everyone,
What took me so long to get over here. Oh, well. What do I know. Anyhew, my name is Martha Tucker, and my friends call me Marti. I am a writer/publisher/bookcoach,living and breathing in Los Angeles. I'm called the glamour grandma, and that's the truth. Nothing like age (I mean chronological years) is going to smudge my lipstick, or take it off. It's not getting me out of wearing heels, or flirting with men my age. Oh, I'm harmless, so don't be getting on your high horses. I'm pretty innocent.
I'm a Christian. See, I told you I was innocent. Have to be to please Jesus. But he didn't tell me to stop laughing, having a sense of humor and praising Him each morning I get up for having a quick brain, strength in my body and joy in my heart, just to be alive.
Now. I'm a publisher of a rare type. I was born to be a writer, and have studied under some of the best like the great Budd Schulberg and Rosa Guy, Pat Alexander and many other journalists. My husband was the Mayor of Compton and tried to do the same thing for that city as President Obama wants to do for the country. Finding that the buck starts in the cities, I know the story very well. So it took me ten years to write a book called, "The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires," an urban political thriller. So, you know that was before Obama came on the scene, maybe he was still in diapers. But that's where it all starts: in the cities.
Last year, my novel won the prestigious "Best New Author Award." In the meantime, I was sick and tired of always seeing Black people portrayed as sex fiends, druggies, or drug dealers, victims of hate, comedians, athletes, and low-lifes. Ladies and gentlemen, until Barack Obama, that was the extent of our national and international image. So how were other people supposed to take us seriously? They weren't, and they didn't.
So what I did was this: I formed the New Image Writer's International Network. Those writers were to become writers who write 3-dimensional Black characters that think and act beyond the personal relationships and negative images that we most often see in the media. They would be in charge of replacing some of those negative stereotypes with positive ones. Our hugely popular New Image Writers Bus Tour last year proved that people of all nationalities will buy non-dummied-down books written about Black people, no matter who writes them if they are made available, and they are written with creativity and are well edited.
That's when I put on a year of marketing experimentation. Yes, I found that, after a year and several thousand dollars, that you can make it onto one bestseller list after the other, then the ultimate one--NY Times, if you play it right. I and three of the authors I published are on our way there right now.
I'm taking my time to tell you what I'm doing and why it's important because I want to be a big contributor over here. This place is wonderful. I'm not bragging, I'm just telling you that we all need to be doing things of excellence to help President Barack Obama to "remake" America. This next years might be your only change to help make the world a better place for all people to live.
Now: Here's what I'm doing--writers and small businesses are being put together to form an economy. The businesses that support our New Image Writers will have a built-in cadre of buyers. Why not? Writers need toilet paper and jewelry. They buy clothes and airline tickets. Why not buy from those who buy their books every month--not the same authors, but those committed to growing our community.
Well, if you're over here and you're a small businessperson, and want to join a community committed to doing a new and better thing about your economics, your income, your finances, join us. If you are a writer who is serious about building a lucrative writing career and contributing to the welfare of other writers, and making an impact on the world, you need to get over to our community and sign in. Right now. Everything you need to succeed is on the New Image site, or just plain ol’e let me hear from you. Let me know you're alive and kicking.
You'll be hearing from me all the time, so get used to it.
Love ya,
Marti Tucker
www.newimagewriters.com
http://blog.newimagewriters.com
marthatucker@newimagewriters.com
writelink3@yahoo.com
By the way here are the book and authors I'm promoting to bestsellers.
Wealth of the Wicked: An American Tragedy of Elderly Abuse by Janice M. Lauderdale
Pulls the cover offf of the tragedy of 1.2 million older people being abused each year.
The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires by Martha Tucker, a young mayor's wife has to find a way to save her children and her city of Compton, California
Prayers for Busy Leaders, Nikki Jourdan, the specific prayers that keep busy leaders from faltering.
The Eye of An Eagle, Stan Allotey, t he story of an African student who escapes a coup in Ghana and comes to UCLA to study, but falls into the American ways and end up on Skid Row, only to find the one thing that pulls him out of hell and back to UCLA to get a Masters Degree and return to Ghana with the knowledge to stamp out greed and corruption.
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