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Christine Whelan’s interview on The Frank Pastore Show: Part 1

Christine Whelan’s interview on The Frank Pastore Show: Part 2

Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves

First-year college students have always arrived on campus full of anxieties: Will I be able to keep up academically? Will I get along with my roommates? Will it be fun? Recently, however, an increasing number feel unable to cope with the emotional demands of college life, and transitional worries have morphed into longer-term fears: Why isn’t life falling into place for me?

According to a yearly national survey of more than 200,000 first-year students conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles, college freshmen are increasingly “overwhelmed,” rating their emotional health at the lowest levels in the 25 years the question has been asked. Such is the latest problem dropped at the offices of higher-education administrators and professors nationwide: Young adults raised with a single-minded focus on gaining admission to college now need help translating that focus into ways to thrive on campus and beyond.

To read the full article, click here.

To learn more about Dr. Whelan and her new publication, Generation WTF, click here.

Win a chance at a $5,000 scholarship when you enter the New Threats to Freedom Short Form Student Contest or the Long Form Student Contest.

Short Form: Create a written or video response to one of the below three videos that discuss topics in the book, New Threats to Freedom edited by Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, 2010):

• Greg Lukianoff on campus censorship
• Max Borders on our compulsive urge to regulate
• Michael Goodwin on the loss of the freedom to fail

Long Form: Write a compelling counter argument to one of these three essays that appear in New Threats to Freedom edited by Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, 2010): 

• The New Behaviorists, Christine Rosen
• Participatory Culture and the Assault on Democracy, Lee Siegel
• The Illusion of Innocence, Shelby Steele

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Christine B. Whelan, PhD, recent author of Generation WTF, is a professor, author, and journalist. She is a visiting assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford for her research on the self-help industry. Dr. Whelan is the author of Marry Smart: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to True Love and Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women. She has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others. She writes a bi-weekly relationship advice column for BustedHalo, a young adult website. She has appeared live on television and radio programs across the nation.

Click here to read Why Most Self-Help Book Suck (And the Few That Don’t).

To learn more about Generation WTF and its author, click here.

If you’re always scrambling to do assignments at the last minute, create a time journal to figure out where your time goes. Many Generation WTFers who tracked their time for a week were amazed by how much time they spent online, watching TV and other supposedly “fun” stuff that actually made them more stressed out in the end because the work just kept piling up. We’ll have a time journal up on this site soon, but in the meantime, check out Laura Vanderkam’s terrific book 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think to download your own customizable time journal and get tracking! Once you see where your time goes, you can adjust your habits to get your work done more efficiently and leave yourself time for time the kind of fun that makes you happiest.

For more tips on how to cope or to read Whelan’s entire response, click here.

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