While college students are hard at work hitting the books, they also have need of another kind of book, another kind of education. That’s where The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating, Sex & College lecture comes in. Highlighting humorous but real-life situations that crop up on campuses everywhere, author Jennifer Worick dissects and offers solutions for the dating disasters that can derail even the luckiest, smartest college student.

Whether trolling for dates at the campus watering hole or dating the same person since 7th grade, the lecture offers a little something for every co-ed, touching on Defensive Dating, First Impressions, Restaurant and Bar Survival Skills, Bedroom (and Dorm Room) Survival Skills, and Academic Survival. This is the frank, funny talk that Jennifer wishes she had been able to attend in college—she might have avoided that unfortunate evening with the Wisconsin rugby team. The program will incorporate an interactive dialogue as Jennifer gets members of the audience to share their own best and worst pick-up lines, break-up lines, excuses and real-life worst case scenarios.

Jennifer Worick is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex and The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College. In addition, she has written and coauthored several other books and journals, including the upcoming The Action Heroine’s Handbook, Mr. Alexander’s 4 Steps to Love, The Rebound Journal, and Get Your Dating Game On.

Jennifer has appeared to promote her books on The Today Show, Montel, The Other Half, and ABC’s World News Now. She has been interviewed for Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, the Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Free Press, the New York Post, USA Today Weekend magazine, and the Washington Post, among others. She lives in Philadelphia.

How To:
Determine the Gender of Your Date
Hook Up in the Library
Pad a Resume
Deal with a Promiscuous Roommate
Survive Class when Hung Over
Chill Beverages without a Refrigerator
Survive if You Wake Up Next to Someone Whose Name You Don’t Remember

Reviews:

“Never leave home without The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex, a bible for the vain, immature, horny American in all of us.” —The Washington Post

“In the all-too-serious and delicate world of dating and sex, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex provides respite and levity. —Los Angeles Times

“Hilarious but ultra-helpful!” —Detroit Free Press

“Dating and Sex tells readers how to weed out an ax murderer, escape from bad blind date and determine your date’s gender—all delivered in a deadpan, Boy Scout Handbook manner.”—New York Post

“Tasteful and useful, and with an appendix of great pickup lines, breakup lines, and all-purpose excuses, this is the book you need when you wake up next to someone whose name you can’t remember.” —amazon.com

From THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: DATING & SEX ©2002 and THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: COLLEGE ©2004 Quirk Productions, published by Chronicle Books.