Amazon has How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Student, by Cal Newport, marked down to $4.30, for today only (although they also still have his How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less marked down to $4.65 (the one-day only price from two days ago).Book Description
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 students just like you
College. You-ve been hearing about it and planning for years, and now at last it's finally here. You've taken the SATs, written the perfect admissions essay, and packed your bags. Now what?
How to Win at College is a must-have road map for making the most of the next four years: how to ace your classes, choose the best activities, assume leadership positions, befriend the right professors, and channel your interests into resume-building projects that will make you stand out from the crowd. Based on firsthand interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College distills the nitty-gritty details of their winning strategies into seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of the class and still leave plenty of time for friends and fun. These college-tested-and often surprising-strategies include:
- Don't do all your reading
- Drop classes every term
- Become a club president
- Ignore your GPA
- Never pull an all-nighter
- Tack on an extra major or minor
- Spend a Semester Abroad
- Maximize your summers
- Always be working on a "grand project"
- Do one thing better than anyone else you know
