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 Fremont
- The new self-help book, “Mission San Jose: How to
Thrive,” was written by two recent graduates and covers
everything from study tips to asking a date to the prom. [The]
authors love to read self-help books, and sometime during
their senior year, they decided to write their own.
The book candidly portrays high school life and is peppered
with personal stories from both authors. The authors take
themselves quite seriously, and most of the book takes a no-nonsense
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But,
whether they intended it, there are some comic chapters,
especially an 8 ½ page section on the prom that includes
a guide on buying flowers by colors and ways to reject a
guy “without hurting his feelings.”
Mission Principal Stuart Kew bought a copy for himself and
three others for administrators. He’s given it a read.
“I think it’s good,” he said Tuesday,
one day before students were to return to school.
Sophomore
Athena Chow, 14, picked up a copy at her orientation. She
said she will probably read the chapters on social life
and self-improvement most carefully. “They have things
for like, friendship and dating and self-esteem, and those
are some like really important thing,” she said. I’m
going to keep reading it and try to apply it to my life.”
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