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| How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
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Author: Cal Newport
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: 2005-04-12
ISBN-10: 0767917871
ISBN-13: 9780767917872
List Price: $11.95
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The only guide to getting ahead once you’ve gotten in—proven strategies for making the most of your college years, based on winning secrets from the country's most successful students
What does it take to be a standout student? How can you make the most of your college years—graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, and gain access to the best post-college opportunities? Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College presents seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of the class. These college-tested—and often surprising—strategies include:
• Don’t do all your reading
• Drop classes every term
• Become a club president
• Care about your grades, Ignore your GPA
• Never pull an all-nighter
• Take three days to write a paper
• Always be working on a “grand project”
• Do one thing better than anyone else you know
Proving that success has little to do with being a genius workaholic, and everything to do with playing the game, How to Win at College is the must-have guide for making the most of these four important years—and getting an edge on life after graduation.
Fantastic book with really practical advice on succeeding in college
| Customer Rating: | While I didn't get to read this book until my senior year, I still got a lot out of Newport's succinct and useful pieces of advice (around 100 in all):
Do research with a professor
Lead a student group
Learn to do something better than anyone you know
Go to office hours
Experience destroying the curve on at least one test
and more
Some are expected, others are surprising. All-in-all a great read. I've lent it to one of my friends and months later, I haven't gotten it back yet... |
Not at good as Straight A, but DEFINITELY should buy both!
| Customer Rating: | This book is great for college students, especially incoming freshman. I wish I had read this book before I entered college! I would've done a lot better. None the less, this book has helped me succeed at my studies and at virtually every other aspect of my life. EXCELLENT BOOK!!! WAY WAY WAY better than any other college-help type books.
ALSO-- check out Cal Newport's Blog. It is really sweet, and offers biweekly tips on how to do well in school!! :) |
Great philosophical advice
| Customer Rating: | There are tips in here that greatly aid the stressful student. I use this book as a reference whenever I feel stressed, and look at the tips "Ignore your G.P.A. and 'Have no Regrets'" As a perfectionist and a stressful worker, I always forget the great philosophical advice in this book. What I've learned is to lose my obsession over grades by facing the true reality that life is short. Demanding such perfection would lose that divine privilege, and youth is even shorter. Having no regrets taught me to live life with a keen eye for possibility and opportunities rather than having an obsession over success. This view makes life exciting and less stressful.
Whenever I forget these tips and end up being so stressed, which I will, I will always have this book in hand to save me.
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Lots of good tips on college life
| Customer Rating:  | This is a book about getting more from the college experience.
Suggestions such as write for the school newspaper, volunteer, attend political rallies, advice on summer employment (he advocates getting a job in the field you are interested in working as career), etc.
There are some study tips covered as well.
The author has another book called, "How to Become a Straight A Student" that is very good at discussing ways to improve your grades and live a balanced life too.
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Books like this are why I get self-help books on Amazon
| Customer Rating: | If you're looking at reviews for this book then you're likely looking for some insight into the college process on a deeper level than surface-level advice. In that case, you should undoubtedly get this book.
I'm going to college next year, and I'm the type of person who copes with things by reading about them. Books like this book are the reason I do that. It's clear and easy to read, it's direct, it's straightforward, and best of all, it's full of simple advice that can dramatically improve one's college experience. It provides this advice without being pretentious- the book's title turned me off at first, and while the author certainly has a very pragmatic approach to college life, he decries resume-padding and the like.
I've recommended it to many of my classmates, and it will serve as a sort of bible for me next year. As much as it's helpful on a practical level, it's helped me in another way, too. I went looking for books because I was nervous about next year. This book helped reassure me by encouraging me to focus on the exciting aspects rather than the unnerving ones. If only I could get such a powerful effect every time I spent ten dollars. |
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