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How to Win at College
- Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Education & Learning, Study Guides & Test Preparation
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How can you graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, gain access to the best post-college opportunities, and still have a life? Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College presents 75 simple rules that will rocket you to the top of your class. These 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
Proving you can be successful and still have time for fun, How to Win at College is the must-have guide for making the most of these four important years - and getting and edge on life after graduation.
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- Jules
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Disappointing, just a money grab
Most of this is pretty standard advice. Not a lot of new here. Found this a disappointment from Dr. Newport as his other books are so good. I imagine he sat down with his publicist and thought, "What else can I easily jot down just to make some cash?" I mean, come on, make your bed? Seriously?
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- Anonymous User
- 03-06-20
very insightful
gives practical advice on how to improve not only on your grades but on things that matters in ones life..
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