The first year is the first time they're running their own life. Nine guides for what that actually looks like: classes, roommates, money, laundry they're suddenly in charge of. All of it landing at once, on somebody who moved out three weeks ago. So the pages are named for the moment: When you bomb a test and have to email the professor about it. When the friend group shifts and nobody tells you why. When your account hits zero and it's the twelfth of the month. When everything you own comes out of the dryer the same new color

A lot of it is the boring stuff nobody sat them down for. Making their own doctor appointment. Figuring out what a deductible is. Reading a lease before signing it. You taught them to drive.

They pull it up on their phone, read the one they need, and close it. They never have to say the words "I don't know how."

Three guides are live now. Six more publish between August and October, and they show up in your account because you've already paid for them.

College Classes

They get the college experience you wish you'd had. One where they build real relationships with mentors, learn that failing a test is where the growth is instead of where it ends, and still have fun doing it. First year becomes the foundation for the next four, so they actually get what the tuition is paying for.

Are between Move-in and Day 1 of class
Bomb a test
Can't get motivated to study
Fall behind in class
Get a syllabus
Need an extension
Need to calculate your grade
Need to email your professor
Need to go to office hours
Need to study for a test
Need to take notes
Struggle to understand in class
Want to find a mentor
Want to join a study group
Want to stand out as a student

Friendship

They come out of the year with people who know them, not just people who happen to live nearby. They learn how to be the friend who reaches out first, how to survive a group falling apart, and how to live with someone whose habits aren't theirs. Those are the skills every relationship after this one runs on.

Disagree with a friend
Everyone already has their people
Everyone's doing it and you don't want to
Friend owes you money
Have to go alone J
ealous of a friend
Lose a friend to their relationship
Meet your roommate
Need to apologize
Need to say no thanks
Pick a roommate
Roommate drives you crazy
Small talk makes you want to disappear
Someone keeps crossing a line

Personal Safety

They go out, say yes to things, and have the year they came for. They also learn to read a situation, trust the feeling that says leave, and get themselves home. Freedom is only worth much if they can hang onto their own judgment inside it.

Being followed
Somewhere drugs come out and want an exit
Call a rideshare
Don't know the person at the door
Drink anything in public (even water)
Everyone is too impaired to drive
Partner is controlling or hurting you
Friend tells you someone assaulted them
Get locked out of a dorm or apartment
Get on an elevator
Go on a first date with someone you met online
Gut says leave and you don't want to be rude
Prepare for bad weather and emergencies
Roommate situation feels unsafe
Sexually assaulted
Someone tries to rob you
Someone's harassing or stalking you online
Someone's making you uncomfortable in public
Stay at a hotel alone
Take a solo hike
Walk alone at night

Dating

They date from a place of knowing what they're worth and what they're looking for. They learn what a good partnership feels like, how to walk away from one that isn't, and how to end it without leaving damage behind. That's the practice that shapes who they eventually choose.

Coming late September 2026

Laundry

They stop being the kid who calls home about a machine and start being the person who just handles it. Small competence adds up into the belief they can figure things out. That belief is what they'll reach for when the problem is bigger than a red sock.

Coming late August 2026

Life Admin

Adulthood stops feeling like a thing being done to them. Appointments, paperwork, forms nobody explained: they handle it, and the competence carries into everything else. This is the guide that quietly turns a kid into an adult.

Coming mid September 2026

Mental Health

They learn early what took a lot of us decades. That a hard stretch isn't a character flaw, that asking for help is a normal thing capable people do, and that their own mind is something they can work with instead of just endure. They don't spend their twenties white-knuckling it in silence.

Coming mid August 2026

Money

They learn how money actually works while the stakes are still small. No shame about it, no avoidance, no discovering at thirty what a credit card really costs. They graduate with habits most people spend years unlearning.

Coming early September 2026

Tech Safety

Their online life doesn't cost them the one they're building. They learn to protect their accounts, their privacy, and their reputation, and they know what to do if something already went wrong. No panic, no shame, just the next right step.

Coming early October 2026