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  • How to Win at College

  • Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
  • By: Cal Newport
  • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
  • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (87 ratings)

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How to Win at College

By: Cal Newport
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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.

©2005 Cal Newport (P)2020 Tantor
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Honestly, a very good read for first-time students

This book's a good read for a first-time student who is looking for a resource to center their mindset for college. As an adult student, I don't know that there were as many useful tools, but definitely they exist here. Overall it was well worth the time investment.

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Wonderful Advice

I really wish I read this book before I went to college. I’ve since given it to family members and friends who are preparing for college. Thank you Cal!

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The concepts in the book are so easy to understand and apply.

I like that the chapters were short. It gave a sense of progress and kept me glued till I ended up finishing the whole book.

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Some good advice but not all

I really liked how he made it clear incoperate discipline and set good time management skills early on. That’s including time blocking and managing your free time. What i didn’t like was how he encouraged taking difficult courses early on. If you are a freshman college student lacking discipline trying mitigate the transition from living with your parents to being independent adult there should be no reason why you should deep end head first. I think there is a difference between being able to strive for academic success and trying to figure out to see if thats the major you want to stay in versus enrolling in classes that is emotionally demanding because the individual is not ready to take on that course load. A lot of good advice but definitely discern from what this author definition of “winning” versus what you can actually handle in order for you to win.

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