College freshmen
Pack the bedding. Pack the shower caddy. Pack this.
Freshman year is the first time most kids manage their own money, sleep, food and friendships at once. Jumpstart Your Life gives them 101 short lessons for exactly that, light enough to toss in the last box.
A dorm-sized book for a big first year.
You will not be down the hall anymore.
No one is checking whether they slept, ate something green, or spent their whole budget in the first month.
You can text reminders, but you know how those land.
This book covers the freshman basics, from sleep and stress to money and choosing good friends, in lessons they can read between classes.
Lessons for the first semester
Plus 98 more across relationships, romance, wealth, health, diet, hygiene, work, education, influence and ethics.
Why it belongs in the move-in box
- Covers dorm life
- Sleep, stress, food, hygiene, money and friends, the things that make or break first year.
- Short reads
- One lesson between classes. No assigned reading vibes.
- Goes beyond school
- Lessons on learning how to learn and building skills, not just grades.
- From someone else
- The advice you would give, without it sounding like another text from home.
A send-off they will appreciate
- Tuck it in the last box with a note to open it the first night.
- Bookmark the sleep and stress lessons for midterms week.
- Ask about one lesson on the first call home instead of "are you eating?"
Written by two cousins, for the next generation
Nicholas Gabriel Irmo is a marketer, entrepreneur, husband and father. Vincent Palizzolo Polyanov is a public servant, military veteran and father of two. They wrote Jumpstart Your Life to pass on what their grandparents, Stephen and Helen Irmo, taught the family while raising seven children.
137 pages, 101 lessons, 10 topics, written for ages 13 to 25.
Read the first chapter free
The dedication, introduction and opening relationship lessons, exactly as printed. Download it right after you sign up.
One PDF. No spam.
Questions
Is it about studying?
Partly. The education lessons cover learning how to learn, asking questions and treating failure as a teacher. Most of the book covers life outside class.
How big is it?
137 pages, easy to pack.
Can I read some first?
Yes. Every lesson has a free page on this site, and the first chapter is a free PDF.
Send them off ready
101 lessons for freshman year and after.