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More About This Title The Secrets of College Success, Third Edition
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Are you among the 22 million students now enrolled in college? Or a high school student thinking of joining them shortly? Or perhaps a parent of a college-bound junior or senior? Then this book is just for you. Written by college professors and successfully used by tens of thousands of students, The Secrets of College Success combines easy-to-use tips, techniques, and strategies with insider information that few professors are willing to reveal. The over 800 tips in this book will show you how to:
- pick courses and choose a major
- manage your time and develop college-level study skills
- get good grades and manage the “core” requirements
- get motivated and avoid stress
- interact effectively with the professor or TA
- prepare for a productive and lucrative career
New to this third edition are high-value tips about:
- undergraduate and collaborative research
- summer internships
- staying safer on campus
- diversity and inclusion
- disabilities and accommodations
…with special tips for international students at US colleges.
Winner of the 2010 USA Book News Award for best book in the college category, The Secrets of College Success makes a wonderful back-to-college or high-school-graduation gift –or a smart investment in your own college success.
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LYNN F. JACOBS and JEREMY S. HYMAN are college professors with a combined 50-plus years of teaching experience at eight different colleges, including the University of Arkansas, MIT, Princeton, UCLA, Vanderbilt University, and California State University, Northridge. They maintain a website at www.professorsguide.com, blog for U.S. News & World Report, and have contributed to blogs at The New York Times, Chegg, and Reader's Digest.
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Preface to the Third Edition xv
Introduction xvii
Top 10 Reasons to Read This Book xix
The Professors’ Guide™ Icons xxi
1 THIS IS COLLEGE
10 Things You Need to Know About College (But Probably Don’t) 3
The 15 Habits of Top College Students 10
The 10 Worst Self-Defeating Myths 14
10 Ways to Get Motivated at College The 11 Secrets of Getting Good Grades in College 18
14 Ways to Ensure You Graduate in Four Years 31
Top 10 Tips for Community College Students 36
10 Best Tips for Engineering School 41
The College Student’s Bill of Rights 49
2 IN THE BEGINNING
8 Things to Do the Summer before College 54
15 Things to Do the Week before College 58
Do’s and Don’ts for Picking Your Courses 68
Top 12 Tips for Picking a Major 72
Top 10 Secrets of the Syllabus 78
10 Questions to Ask Yourself the First Week of Classes 82
The 13 Warning Signs of a Bad Professor 85
Tips and Tricks for Improving Your Course Schedule 89
3 SKILLS 3.0
Top 10 Time-Management Tips 96
Top 10 Reasons Never to Procrastinate 100
The How Not to Study Guide 104
10 Must-Do’s in Lecture 10 Secrets of Taking Excellent Lecture Notes 109
15 Ways to Read Like a Pro 113
15 Strategies for Painless Presentations 118
15 Ways to Build Your Confidence 123
4 SPECIALTIES OF THE HOUSE
10 Ways to Whip the Freshman Comp Requirement 129
10 Tips for Taming the Math Requirement 134
Top 10 Tips for Mastering the Foreign (or World) Language Requirement 138
10 Ideas for Learning to Love the Lab 142
10 Tips for the First-Year Experience Course 146
Facing Up to Remediation: Top 10 Strategies 149
10 Tips for Online Courses 154
5 IT’S SHOWTIME!
12 Tips for A+ Test Preparation 166
“So What’s Going to Be on the Test Anyway?” 171
Top 13 Test-Taking Tips 174
10 Tips for Constructing the Perfect Paper 179
10 Things Your Professor Won’t Tell You About Grading 185
How to Turn a B into an A 189
14 Techniques for Doing Research Like a Professor 190
Top 10 Tips for Doing E-Research 196
6 OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
10 Strategies for Staying Safer on Campus
8 Strategies for Underrepresented Student Populations
10 Tips for Dealing with Disabilities
Top 10 Tips for International Students
7 INTERFACING WITH THE PROFESSOR
15 Ways to Make Your Professor Love You 203
10 Biggest Hesitations About Going to See the Professor—and How to Get Over Them 208
The 14 Secrets of Going to See the Professor 212
Etiquette for E-mailing Your Professor 217
10 Surefire Ways to Piss Off Your Professor 220
Top 10 Things Professors Never Want to Hear—and What They Think When They Do Hear Them 224
8 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
10 Things to Do When You Can’t Keep Up with the Lecture 228
8 Things to Do When There’s Too Much Reading Top 10 Signs You’ve Been Cutting Too Many Classes 233
What to Do When You’ve Bombed the Midterm 234
7 Best Last-Minute Strategies for Saving Your Grade 237
10 Signs You’re in Real Trouble at College 241
What, Then, to Do? The 7-Step Approach 244
9 THE SECOND HALF
10 Must-Do’s at the Halfway Point of College 249
12 Skills You’ll Need for a Career—and How to Get Them at College
Top 10 Tips for Doing Undergraduate Research
10 Strategies for Women Considering a Career in STEM Fields
Do’s and Don’ts for a Summer Internship
Summer School Pros and Cons
Top 10 Myths About Study Abroad
10 Tips for the Senior Thesis
10 MOVING ON
The 10-Step Program for Thinking About Grad School 284
Top 10 Tips for Getting Bang-Up Recommendations 289
8 Tips for Finding a Job 294
How to Ace the Job Interview 298
THE END—AND THE BEGINNING
The 3 Most Important Tips 309
Top 10 People We’d Like to Thank 311
