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We institute some great gizmos and gadgets that may make life onward your own a little easier.

If you think life after high place of education is going to be challenging, just think of what Buffy Summers' busy freshman schedule is like. UC Sunnydale preserves Buffy running with classes, parties, and of course, nightly vampire slayage. (She could probably use our time management advice forward p. 13.)

The surprising thing about television's Buffy is for what reason many real problems she has to deal with in addition to the grim and ghoulish the sames Like many freshmen, Buffy faced roommate confuses when she moved in with the airy Kathy, a major Celine Dion fan. At first, Buffy gritted her teeth and tried to make nice. (For techniques, diocese "Roommate Rules," p. 44.) yet Kathy's peccadilloes--putting her name onward all her food in the fridge (including eggs) and clipping her toenails in bed--drove Buffy batty. Fortunately, it deflected out that Kathy was a spirit who had to return to the fiend world.

Because she is forward the meal plan, Buffy has given us a glimpse into the world of association cafeteria cuisine. "Parker teaches her by what mode to sneak food into her endure s for eating later on," says Jenny Carroll, author of the teen novel The Mediator (Pocket/Pulse) (For advice forward eating right, see "Surviving the Everyday Stuff" p 20)

Slayer fan Michael Sohn a graduate learner and assistant professor at lengthy Island University, points out that Buffy discovered the hard way the dangers of drinking too often in an episode in which heavy beer swillers move rounded into Neanderthals. "The show also remarks on machismo at frats," says Sohn

It's conformable to fact that we have yet to descry Buffy. really struggle with the Freshman 15 or pervert with money [i]or[/i] gain a car or manage her riches but these are real life challenges that we provide a answers to in the pages ahead.

"Buffy could use that adumbration of advice," says Brian Culver a professor at Yeshiva University. "Slaying is no problem; it's the everyday cloth that gets her down."

Apple iBook, $1599

AirPort Base Station, $299

Besides looking incredibly somewhat cold the really innovative thing about Apple's iBook is that it's the first gauge to offer wireless Internet access--if you also purchase the AirPort Base Station. You'll be able to breaking waves the net at the bus stop, public on the campus quad, or during that boring bio lecturing With a 300-megahertz PowerPC G3 microprocessor, a built-in 56-K modem and six hours of battery life, the iBook isn't just a neat face.

Siemens suffer Reader, $99.95

lance out that old yellow highlighter. The pouch Reader from Siemens is a thesis scanner that will make notetaking a snap. No more copying passages on the outside of books. Roll the suffer Reader over a sentence, then download the data to a Windows or Macintosh computer A small guard lets you check the captured text

Handspring Visor Deluxe $249

continue your schedule in the palm of your hand with Handspring's recently made known Visor Deluxe handheld computer. The Visor proceeds in five colors and has eight megabytes of RAM, a built-in microphone, a USB connection, a leather case and the cradle lacked to synchronize the device with a desktop computer Works with the one and the other Windows and Macintosh systems.

Casio TV-880 $11995

none miss a moment of your favorite exhibit to with Casio's TV-880 handheld color television. The tiny boob tube originates with a miniature screen (23 inches), earphone and video input jack, birch antenna, and an anti-glare screen

Sprint PC Touchpoint, $200 Sprint PC Wireless Web Service, $10/month

If keeping in touch 24/7 is your thing, the Sprint PC Touchpoint phone may be for you. This flip phone with seven-line display also allows you to feed upon the Internet from virtually anywhere.

SkipDoctor, $3499

Don't toss those scratched CDs! The SkipDoctor by dint of Digital Innovations can bring your CD back to life. Simply snap the damaged CD into the SkipDoctor, spray it with the provided resurfacing fluid, and inflect the handle until the CD makes the same full revolution. Presto! Music to your ears.

Y-Tech E-mail PostBox $9999

Don't have a computer yet want to stay in touch with friends and family through the whole extent of e-mail? The E-mail PostBox from V-Tech stopples into a standard phone jack and shows basic e-mail (no Web surfing, graphics, or attachments), a full-size keyboard, and compact design. The device can be ordered no other than through the Web site (www.vtechworld.com) or according to calling (888) 468-8324; an e-mail account splendors around $8 a month.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT

We asked our guild Advisory Board--all college freshmen--to betray us about life on their confess Here's what they had to say:

in succession time management,

"College is all about wise time management. You lay things off and you acquire left behind in the dust because you are in succession your own. The professors pass on with the material; if you aren't up to date upon the assignments, it's your be in possession of fault."

Sylvette Reynoso

Boston University

Boston, MA

papal court "Get Time On Your Side," p 13

in succession doing it all.

"One obstacle I face is doing everything upon my own. I have to go on foot to the doctor's on my admit I have to get to places forward my own. I have to pay my phone bill onward my own. Even though I live in the dorms, it's almost as if I live in my have apartment except my parents pay the breach I faced the challenge by means of becoming responsible and realizing that if I didn't do it, then it would not get done."