Publisher's Synopsis
A Smart Student's Handbook: Essential Advice for Hostel-Life prepares you for your new, independent life. It guides you on how to make your new home away from home a little more comfortable for you. It will help you to prepare mentally and otherwise as how to search, settle and adjust to the hostel-life. It provides easy solutions to the challenges that a hosteller faces. It guides one about the importance of setting into an everyday routine and building up an all-round personality. The author, also a doctor, discusses in depth the routine ailments and how hostellers should equip themselves for medical emergencies. This book also addresses the parents as it would help them in understanding the complexities of teen-life. Written in a user-friendly language with examples from day-to-day situations, the book is an easy read. It contains a message for all the students to 'never give up'. It also touches the sensitive, yet important, issue of how to tackle failure and depression.