Today’s students face many challenges: managing a hectic whirl of nights propping up the bar, knowing which clubs to avoid, having as much sex as possible, avoiding any washing up, keeping lecturers and parents at bay without doing any actual work. This list could last for pages but Tanya Sassoon has pledged to step in and help any unskilled and unwary students with her knowing and practical "Student Survival Kit. As she provides pre-written postcards to reassure parents that all is well at the same time as teaching you how to exploit a frenzied social timetable and keep an accurate star-rating of your many sexual conquests, she will also give you introduction cards printed with sure-fire pulling statements such as ‘I make great breakfast in bed’ or the possibly more enticing ‘My dad owns a pub’. Also included is a practical day-to-day guide bulging with tips on crucial concerns like how to behave in seminars (for example, to impress your tutor without much effort at all, quote something they’ve written – they’ll be yours forever), as well as an invaluable excuse chart on which to log excuses used (this will prevent you trying to convince your tutor for the third time in a term that you couldn’t do your essay as your granny has just died).