The Secrets of College Success.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Meet the Professors -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Top 10 Reasons to Read This Book -- The Professors' Guide™ Icons -- Chapter 1 This is College -- 10 Things You Need to Know About College (But Probably Don't) -- The 15 Habits of Top College Students -- The 10 Worst Self-Defeating Myths -- 10 Ways to Get Motivated at College -- The 11 Secrets of Getting Good Grades in College -- 14 Ways to Ensure You Graduate in Four Years -- Top 10 Tips for Community College Students -- 10 Best Tips for Engineering School -- The College Student's Bill of Rights -- Chapter 2 In the Beginning . . . -- 8 Things to Do the Summer Before College -- 15 Things to Do the Week Before College -- Do's and Don'ts for Picking Your Courses -- Top 12 Tips for Picking a Major -- Top 10 Secrets of the Syllabus -- 10 Questions to Ask Yourself the First Week of Classes -- 13 Warning Signs of a Bad Professor -- Tips and Tricks for Improving Your Course Schedule -- Chapter 3 Skills 3.0 -- Top 10 Time-Management Tips -- Top 10 Reasons Never to Procrastinate -- The How Not to Study Guide -- 10 Must-Do's in Lecture -- 10 Secrets of Taking Excellent Lecture Notes -- 15 Ways to Read Like a Pro -- 15 Strategies for Painless Presentations -- 15 Ways to Build Your Confidence -- Chapter 4 Specialties of the House -- 10 Ways to Whip the Freshman Comp Requirement -- 10 Tips for Taming the Math Requirement -- Top 10 Tips for Mastering the Foreign (or World) Language Requirement -- 10 Ideas for Learning to Love the Lab -- 10 Tips for the First-Year Experience Course -- Facing Up to Remediation: Top 10 Strategies -- 10 Tips for Online Courses -- Chapter 5 It's Show time! -- 12 Tips for A+ Test Preparation -- So What's Going to Be on the Test Anyway? -- Top 13 Test-Taking Tips -- 10 Tips for Constructing the Perfect Paper.

10 Things Your Professor Won't Tell You About Grading -- How to Turn a B into an A -- 14 Techniques for Doing Research Like a Professor -- Top 10 Tips for Doing E-Research -- Chapter 6 Overcoming Challenges -- 10 Strategies for Staying Safer on Campus -- 8 Strategies for Students from Underrepresented Populations -- 10 Tips for Dealing With Disabilities -- Top 10 Tips for International Students -- Chapter 7 Interfacing With The Professor -- 15 Ways to Make Your Professor Love You -- 10 Biggest Hesitations About Going to See the Professor-and How to Get Over Them -- The 14 Secrets of Going to See the Professor -- Etiquette for E-mailing Your Professor -- 10 Surefire Ways to Piss Off Your Professor -- Top 10 Things Professors Never Want to Hear-and What They Think When They Do Hear Them -- Chapter 8 In Case of Emergency . . . -- 10 Things to Do When You Can't Keep Up with the Lecture -- 8 Things to Do When There's Too Much Reading -- Top 10 Signs You've Been Cutting Too Many Classes -- What to Do When You've Bombed the Midterm -- 7 Best Last-Minute Strategies for Saving Your Grade -- 10 Signs You're in Real Trouble at College -- What, Then, to Do? The 7-Step Approach -- Chapter 9 The Second Half -- 10 Must-Do's at the Halfway Point of College -- 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 Careerin 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 -- Chapter 10 Moving On -- The 10-Step Program for Thinking About Grad School -- Top 10 Tips for Getting Bang-Up Recommendations -- 8 Tips for Finding a Job -- How to Ace the Job Interview -- The End-And the Beginning -- The 3 Most Important Tips -- Index -- Notes -- EULA.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.