Pre-Senior/Senior Survival Guide

Pre-Senior/Senior Survival Guide
Author: George Konar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2015-10-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1514415682

The following pages act as a guide in the transition process from afternoon to night with thought given to the evening, in between. The following pages are also a collection of situations, dialogue, and thoughts, with some attitude added here and there. Not a coffee table book or bathroom read but instead meant for reference, present and future. Perhaps even a convenient guide during a period of difficulty or indecisiveness.

The College Girl's Survival Guide

The College Girl's Survival Guide
Author: Hanna Seymour
Publisher: FaithWords
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1478993561

Hanna Seymour, a mentor to thousands of young college women, provides a plan for success in college based on experience, illustrations, and biblical principles. Each year millions of young women enter the college scene and are surprised to find their glittering preconceptions shattered. College isn't exactly what they had imagined -- it's a lot tougher. Social challenges, a demanding schedule, pressure to succeed, shifting family dynamics: how do girls tackle these issues, learn to thrive, and really enjoy this new phase of life? The Girl's Survival Guide is packed with experienced-based advice that can help. Written by a mentor with ten years of experience helping college girls succeed, it's like having a big sister along for the journey. With proven tips, scripture, and inspiring illustrations, this book will coach, comfort, and inspire young women so that they can make the most of the college experience. Thousands of young women have asked Hanna Seymour what to do about roommate drama, boyfriend trouble, choosing a major, balancing family and school life, and so much more. She's poured her best insights into this book -- answering the top 52 questions she has received -- so that readers everywhere will be armed with the knowledge and inspiration to make college the most epic, enriching time it can be.

Actuaries' Survival Guide

Actuaries' Survival Guide
Author: Fred Szabo
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0123869439

What would you like to do with your life? What career would allow you to fulfill your dreams of success? If you like mathematics-and the prospect of a highly mobile, international profession-consider becoming an actuary. Szabo's Actuaries' Survival Guide, Second Edition explains what actuaries are, what they do, and where they do it. It describes exciting combinations of ideas, techniques, and skills involved in the day-to-day work of actuaries. This second edition has been updated to reflect the rise of social networking and the internet, the progress toward a global knowledge-based economy, and the global expansion of the actuarial field that has occurred since the first edition. Includes details on the new structures of the Society of Actuaries' (SOA) and Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) examinations, as well as sample questions and answers Presents an overview of career options, includes profiles of companies & agencies that employ actuaries. Provides a link between theory and practice and helps readers understand the blend of qualitative and quantitative skills and knowledge required to succeed in actuarial exams Includes insights provided by over 50 actuaries and actuarial students about the actuarial profession Author Fred Szabo has directed the Actuarial Co-op Program at Concordia for over fifteen years

How to Survive Your Freshman Year

How to Survive Your Freshman Year
Author: Frances Northcutt
Publisher: Hundreds of Heads Books, LLC
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 193351261X

Now revised and updated, this guide offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first year of college and have something interesting to say about it.

The College Administrator’s Survival Guide

The College Administrator’s Survival Guide
Author: C. K. Gunsalus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674065557

In this book, a widely respected advisor on academic administration and ethics offers tips, insights, and tools for handling complaints, negotiating disagreements, responding to accusations of misconduct, and dealing with difficult personalities. With humor and generosity, C. K. Gunsalus applies scenarios based on real-life cases to guide academic administrators through the dilemmas of management in not-entirely-manageable environments.

Sterling's College Admission Survival Guide Senior Year

Sterling's College Admission Survival Guide Senior Year
Author: Stephen Charles Sterling
Publisher: Kalendarium Inc.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2006-05
Genre:
ISBN: 0978717309

Sterling's College Admission Survival Guide is the college and university guide for understanding the entire college admission process.

The Youth Minister's Survival Guide

The Youth Minister's Survival Guide
Author: Len Kageler
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1991-12-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031054341X

This wonderful and easy read helps new and future youth workers set patterns in life and ministry that will keep them whole and healthy, and away from burnout.

Engineers Survival Guide

Engineers Survival Guide
Author: Merih Taze
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-11-28
Genre:
ISBN:

Authored by Merih Taze, Senior Software Engineering Lead at Facebook (Previously Microsoft and Snapchat). There are a lot of amazing technical books out there. But what about your life as an engineer? How you interact with others? How happy are you with your career? Are you tired of the need to put on a fake confidence show? Are you having a hard time convincing others? Are you interested in getting promoted? Are you overworked and can't find a way to get the help you need? Are you scared of the feedback from your peers? Do you find yourself in conflicts with no solution in sight? Want to learn the secrets of having your manager work for you? Interested in building a career you'll be proud to talk about? If you've been feeling alone in your journey and keep wishing you had a friend or a mentor you could get some advice about non-technical aspects, look no further! Inside, you will find the summary of advice, tactics, and tricks learned the hard way through many years of working on mission-critical components, complex system designs supporting billions of users, and working with thousands of the most brilliant engineers around the world. Have a survival guide for most situations you'll be facing throughout your career as an engineer and learn how to play for the long game.

Survival Guide for Scientists

Survival Guide for Scientists
Author: Ad Lagendijk
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2008
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9053565124

During the course of Dutch physicist and Spinoza Prize–winner Ad Lagendijk’s long and influential career, he has published more than 300 articles, supervised over thirty doctoral dissertations, and given countless presentations and conference addresses. Over the years, his incisive consultations, tips, and rules for scientific study have proven themselves so beneficial to the emerging young scientists under his watch that he has been inundated with requests for a written version. Aimed primarily at undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students in the natural sciences, Survival Guide for Scientists presents Lagendijk’s practical how-to advice on essential topics such as the foundations for writing scientific texts, presenting data and research information, and writing and reading collegial e-mails. Each section is organized by a collection of short rules, outlined and numbered in a logical order as self-explanatory pieces of information—allowing the reader the freedom to study any number of them in any desired order. These concrete guidelines are all supplemented by an extensive index that forms a reference text of its own, with easy navigation—securing a place for the Survival Guide for Scientists on the shelves of scientific scholars and students alike.