When I bought this book, I imagined a biographical-type look at Nathan’s experience as a college freshman. So, I have to say I was a little dissappointed when it turned out to be an anthropological look at being a college freshman. But I stuck with it, and it brought back a lot of memories of when I was a college freshman ten years ago—and I was doing the exact same sorts of things that the students in the book did. In the end, I found this book helpful, because I teach college freshman—freshman english in fact—and I realized that it can be easy to forget the sorts of pressures that college freshman undergo. I’m going to look at this book again when I’m writing my next syllabus and planning my next semester of freshman english.