Freshman Year of Life: Essays That Tell the Truth about Work, Home, and Love After College

by Mindsumo (Editor)

Overview

An unusual event is publishing in which a book is conceived entirely by college students tasked with the assignment to create the book they feel they need the most. THE MINDSUMO BOOK will be assembled through a series of challenges - the result a book that in form and content speaks to today's graduates in a way no book has before. The creation is newsworthy. The result will be the perfect graduation gift.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250071187
Publisher:	Flatiron Books
Publication date:	04/11/2017
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	266,717
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

The essays in this book are written by bloggers, social media gurus, journalists, TV personalities, and podcast hosts, with a total Twitter following of over 2 million. Contributors include Ashley Ford, Emily Gould, Bijan Stephen, and Mara Wilson. Others have written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, The Washington Post, Elle, The Guardian, Feministing, appeared on Showtime and VH1, started their own successful businesses and websites, and hosted popular podcasts.

The idea for this book was conceived of by Mindsumo, Inc., a community of today’s brightest college students. Founded in 2011, the MindSumo community harnesses the creativity and analytical skills of students to produce some of the most innovative and forward thinking solutions to the challenges businesses face today. The company was launched at the Stanford Student Startup Association in February 2012 and is backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, including Voyager Capital, Google Ventures, Data Collective, and StartFund. Clients include Target, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Yahoo, Kayak, and IBM to name a few.

Table of Contents

Contents

PART 1

Work and Money

The Extra Mile(s) by Alana Massey

Stepping-Stones by Alison Gilbert

A Story of a Fuck Off Fund by Paulette Perhach

The Ass-Whooping of a Lifetime by Lincoln Blades

Wait for It by Chloe Angyal

Not Just a Hobby by Molly Soda

Useful by Mara Wilson

Back-Pocket Feminism by Lori Adelman

Thongs Are a Bad Idea and Other Advice by Laura Willcox

What to Look for in a Workplace by Nia King

Not for Me by Whitney Mixter

Doing the Dishes by Emily Gould

High Fives for Trying by Eric Anthony Glover

PART 2

Home and Belonging

Locked Out by Bijan Stephen

Moving Back Is Not a Step Back by Nisha Bhat

One-Way Ticket to Paris by Shannon Keating

Walking Up Walking Up the Hill by Lane Moore

Paper Maps by Kristin Russo

Getting Things Going by Aaron Gilbreath

Domesticity 101 by Justin Warner

Graduate School in Nebraska by Aileen Garcia

You’ll Go by Kevin Nguyen

Down and Out in Boca Raton by Jason Diamond

Walk-In Closet by Alexandra Molotkow

Outsider/Insider by Jenny Zhang

Homebody by Mira Gonzalez

PART 3

Love and Relationships

Staying in Touch by Sam Zabell

Somewhere Between Mountains by Skylar Kergil

Dude of the Year by Sarah Mirk

Angels at Get Us from Here to There by Gala Mukomolova

Everything Is Fine by Jamie Lauren Keiles

I’d Rather Die an Ask for Help by Carvell Wallace

L Is For . . . by Lauren Wachenfeld

Why I Want to Live Like I’m Forty in My Twenties by Ashley Ford

Not Just Four Walls and a Roof by Cameron Summers

How to Make New Friends as an Adult and Why by Puja Patel

I Moved Cross-Country for a Guy by Myisha Battle

You Don’t Need More Friends by Scaachi Koul

Afterword by Trent Hazy, founder and CEO of MindSumo, Inc.

Contributor Bios

Acknowledgments