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How to Win at College

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.



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Title of ebook: How to Win at College
ISBN: 9780767920223
parent-ISBN: 9780767917872
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 04-2005
Released online for download: 04-12-2005
Author of eBook: NEWPORT, CAL

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How to Win at College


Chapter One

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Don't Do All of Your Reading


You will be assigned a lot of reading at college. Probably more reading than seems humanly possible for any one person to complete. Social science and humanities courses will taunt you with seemingly short academic articles that turn out to be riddled with Byzantine sentence structures and devilishly complicated logic. Science courses will siphon your time, and help you develop a lifelong hatred of bar charts, with a steady stream of ultradense technical material. And just to keep things sporting, professors will periodically slip entire books into the syllabus, often giving you only a week or so to finish them. Sound bleak? It doesn't have to be. All you need remember is one simple rule: Don't do all of your reading.

To a hardworking student, ignoring assigned reading probably seems blasphemous. But as unusual as this may sound at first, covering every page of reading listed in a course syllabus is rarely necessary. Here is what you should do instead:

For reading that covers the topic of an upcoming lecture, it's often sufficient to just skim the main points ahead of time, and then fill in the gaps during class by taking very go ... read full excerpt from: How to Win at College ebook



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