How To Win At College - Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students

Cal Newport

Three Rivers Press

2005

198 páginas

6h 36m

ISBN-10: 0767917871

The only guide to getting ahead once you've gotten in - based on winning secrets from the country's most succesful students.

Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students

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 having the right gameplan, 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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Um livro para aprender!

Sou caloura na universidade e ler "How to Win at College" me proporcionou ótimos conselhos para essa nova fase da minha vida, especialmente porque na minha primeira semana de aula fiquei bastante dividida ao perceber que a vida de um universitário é 8 ou 80: ou você vive estudando (e não tem vida social) ou vive festando e curtindo kkkk.

Essa obra me ajudou a equilibrar os momentos da vida: "Estude, mas não abra mão da sua vida social!"

Outro detalhe que quero destacar é que foi meu primeiro livro lido em inglês, e fiquei bastante orgulhosa ao ver meu desenvolvimento na língua.