Ruminations on College Life
Ruminations on College Life

Author: Aaron Karo

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-08-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0743235932

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With hilarious insights, observations, and personal anecdotes on everything from partying all night, to learning to do laundry, to falling asleep in class, Aaron Karo has captured the college experience like never before. It took college freshman Aaron Karo only one week to realize that college was a joke -- an especially funny one that he could share with his friends in a regular email newsletter about life on campus. By his senior year, Ruminations on College Life had become an international phenomenon. Now, for the first time in print, here is the best of the original ezine, previously unpublished material, and brand new introductions to each section by the author. Share in the absurdity and insanity of the college experience with Karo as you read his outrageous inside account of scheming students, crazy professors, confused parents, and rowdy frat boys. Perfect for anyone who is destined for college, currently surviving it, or already a veteran, this book is a cult classic readers can enjoy alone or read out loud at their next party for tons of laughs.

Ruminations on Twentysomething Life
Ruminations on Twentysomething Life

Author: Aaron Karo

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0743284631

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IS THERE LIFE AFTER COLLEGE? In this sidesplitting follow-up to his smash hit, Ruminations on College Life, Aaron Karo takes readers on another outrageous journey -- this time through his early twenties. With hilarious anecdotes and irreverent observations, Karo captures the twentysomething experience like never before and answers the question, "Is there life after college?" Featuring the very best of his world-renowned email column as well as brand-new material published here for the first time, Ruminations on Twentysomething Life details Karo's evolution from frat boy to manhood and explores the frenzied lives of a generation living in the strange and unique gap between college and marriage. With his trademark acerbic wit, Karo ruminates on everything from your first day on the job to the last call at the bar. Perfect for students about to get their first dose of reality, twentysomethings procrastinating at work, or anyone who wants to relive their glory days, this book is sure to have readers laughing out loud and nodding their heads in agreement that there is indeed life after college.

I'm Having More Fun Than You
I'm Having More Fun Than You

Author: Aaron Karo

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-09-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0061959596

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From Aaron Karo, stand-up comic and acclaimed author of Ruminations on College Life and Ruminations on Twentysomething Life, comes I’m Having More Fun Than You, an irreverent exploration of why guys embrace bachelorhood and love flying solo in their twenties and thirties. I’m Having More Fun Than You is a hilarious and perceptive must-read for all the guys who are loving flying solo in the prime of their lives—as well as for women looking for insight into men, their attitudes toward dating, and their tricks of the trade.

Black Students White Teacher
Black Students White Teacher

Author: David A. Hancock

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781645520597

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Many are asking, what is wrong with teaching, learning, schooling, and education, and what can be done? You will get the answers (panacea) from the letters of a mad public school teacher: intrepid, irascible, cantankerous, provocative, passionate, thought-provoking, iconoclastic, and enhanced with vitriolic demagoguery. As a grad student / colleague said, Thanks for an enjoyable class on education issues in society. I also enjoyed your letters to the editor. I've been told that I say what other people think. Well, you write and publish what we're all thinking.

Lexapros and Cons
Lexapros and Cons

Author: Aaron Karo

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1429942428

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Chuck Taylor's OCD has rendered him a high school outcast. His endless routines and habitual hand washing threaten to scare away both his closest friend and the amazing new girl in town. Sure he happens to share the name of the icon behind the coolest sneakers in the world, but even Chuck knows his bizarre system of wearing different color "Cons" depending on his mood is completely crazy. In this hilariously candid debut novel from comedian Aaron Karo—who grew up with a few obsessions and compulsions of his own—very bad things are going to happen to Chuck. But maybe that's a good thing. Because with graduation looming, Chuck finds himself with one last chance to face his inner demons, defend his best friend, and win over the girl of his dreams. No matter what happens, though, he'll have to get his hands dirty.

The Twentysomething Soul
The Twentysomething Soul

Author: Timothy Thomas Clydesdale

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0190931353

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Drawing from hundreds of interviews with devout believers, resolute skeptics, and everyone in between, The Twentysomething Soul tells an optimistic story about the lives of today's young adults.

Ruminations from the Minivan
Ruminations from the Minivan

Author: Alison Krupnick

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781479350605

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In 1989, prior to the normalization of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Vietnam, Alison Krupnick was holed up in a seedy Ho Chi Minh City hotel, hiding from people desperate for visas to resettle in the U.S. Fifteen years later, she was holed up alone in her minivan, furiously scribbling stories on a notepad at every red traffic light. The story of Alison's transformation from world traveling diplomat to minivan-driving mom is chronicled in Ruminations from the Minivan: Musings from a World Grown Large, then Small. A warm and funny story of inspiration and ambition, international intrigue, mothers and daughters, food, family, writing and travel, Ruminations from the Minivan will take you on the trip of a lifetime.

Me You Us
Me You Us

Author: Aaron Karo

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1481468774

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In a hilarious comedy of errors that Booklist has dubbed “a good choice for fans of John Green,” high school matchmaker Shane Chambliss is content finding love for his classmates—until love finally finds him. What if the secrets of dating and love were revealed in one simple formula? That’s the tantalizing proposition high school senior Shane Chambliss offers the hopeless and hapless guys who come to him for relationship advice. After the girl of his dreams breaks his heart, Shane devises a mysterious formula called the Galgorithm and establishes himself as the resident dating guru at Kingsview High School. But his attempts to master the art of romance go outrageously awry. As Shane tries to navigate the ensuing drama, he must follow his heart, abandon all the rules, and ignore his own advice in a quest for true love. What he discovers, no formula could ever predict...

Rhythms of Academic Life
Rhythms of Academic Life

Author: Peter J. Frost

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1996-07-16

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1452264694

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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.

Slow Your Roll
Slow Your Roll

Author: Meg S Maloney

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-02

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781649991539

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In college she was an American in Spain, spending a year studying abroad in Madrid. Thirty-five years later-after sending the last of her children off to college-55-year-old Meg S. Maloney decided it was time to fulfill a long-held dream: complete the legendary Camino de Santiago. In May of 2019, Meg left her home in Northern California to set off alone on the challenging, inspiring 550-mile walk across Spain, not knowing what she'd find or who'd she become. This is her story.