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College Life 101: Freshman Orientation

by J. B. Vample

Five roommates, one first semester

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Five roommates, one first semester

At Paradise Valley University, a mismatched set of roommates makes the adjustment to college more complicated for five young women. Sidra, Chasity, Malajia, Alexandra, and Emily bring different expectations and temperaments to shared rooms, while family troubles, relationship tensions, and academic pressure follow them into campus life. The ensemble premise links their separate conflicts through the practical challenge of adapting to a new environment and getting through the first semester. College Life 101: Freshman Orientation centers on the transition from home to university and the frictions that can arise when people with sharply different habits have to live together.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young adult readers interested in college and campus-life fiction.
  • Readers who enjoy ensemble stories about roommates with contrasting personalities.
  • Readers interested in family pressures and the transition to life away from home.

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College transitionRoommate conflictFamily pressureRelationshipsAcademic demands

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Book overview

When it comes to life, class is always in session

Leaving home for the first time to attend college is stressful enough. But when the roommate lottery of Paradise Valley University strikes, it produces couples who have absolutely nothing in common; causing personality clashes which takes the stress to a whole new level. Dismay hits Sidra Howard, the prim and proper princess, when she contemplates spending an entire semester with Chasity Parker, the troubled beauty with a sharp tongue and even sharper claws. Malajia Simmons, a boy crazed, attention seeking diva, is no happier. Not only does she get stuck with the upper bunk bed, she has to share a triple room with Alexandra Chisolm, a nosey and overbearing, self proclaimed "know-it-all". But even the meddling Alexandra isn't as bad as Emily Harris, the shy, mommy's girl with a non-existent backbone.

Coming to college to escape her home life, Chasity hopes to get through the semester without any problems. Her hopes are tainted once she begins to have to resist the advances of a determined football star, on top of dealing with family drama which seems to have followed her. Alexandra's need to fix everyone's problems not only rubs her roommates the wrong way, it also causes her to fall blind to the problems brewing with the boyfriend that she left behind. Eventually she'll be forced to face the issues head on. Emily's refusal to come out of her shell is too much to handle for party girl Malajia, whose main purpose is to have fun and be seen. The same doesn't apply to Sidra, who's more concerned with trying to keep her over-the-top stress level under control.

These five young women try to handle family drama, pressure, and conflicts; all while trying to maintain their grades. They quickly learn that college life isn't what they expected and must adapt to their new environment if they ever hope to make it through their first semester.

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