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Table of Contents
Introduction
- This Is College
- 10 Things You Need to Know About College (but Probably Don't)
- What's New at College? Fun Facts
- The 14 Habits of Top College Students
- The 11 Secrets of Getting Good Grades in College
- 6 Things You Didn't Know About Grading (but Really Should)
- 6 Things You Didn't Know About Grading (but Really Should)
- 12 Ways to Get Your Money's Worth out of College
- The College Student's Bill of Rights
- In the Beginning...
- 7 Things to Do the Summer Before College
- 15 Things to Do the Week Before College
- Do's and Don'ts for Picking Your Courses
- No Room at the Inn? What to Do When You're Closed out of a Course
- 10 Questions to Ask Yourself the First Week of Classes
- The 13 Warning Signs of a Bad Professor
- Skills 3.0
- Top 10 Time-Management Tips
- Why It's Never Good to Procrastinate
- The How Not to Study Guide
- 10 Secrets of Taking Excellent Lecture Notes
- 15 Ways to Read Like a Pro
- 15 Strategies for Painless Presentations
- Running Scared? How to Build Your Confidence
- Forced Labor
- 10 Ways to Whip the Freshman Comp Requirement
- 10 Tips for Taming the Math Requirement
- Top 10 Tips for Mastering the Foreign Language Requirement
- 10 Ideas for Learning to Love the Lab
- 10 Tips for the First-Year Experience Course
- How to Take Courses on the "Net"for Free
- It's Showtime!
- 12 Tips for A+ Test Preparation
- "So What's Going to Be on the Test Anyway?"
- Top 13 Test-Taking Tips
- 10 Tips for Writing the Perfect Paper
- Top 10 Ways of Making the Leap from a B to an A
- 16 Techniques for Doing Research Like a Professor
- Partnering with Your Professor
- 15 Ways to Make Your Professor Love You
- The 15 Secrets of Going to See the Professor
- Etiquette for E-mailing Your Professor
- 10 Surefire Ways to Piss Off Your Professor
- 10 Things Professors Never Want to Hear (and What They Think When They Do Hear Them)
- Emergency 9-1-1
- 10 Things to Do When You Can't Keep Up with the Lecture
- Top 10 Signs You've Been Cutting Too Many Classes
- Bombed the Midterm: Now What?
- 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
- The Second Half of College
- How Not to Pick a Major
- 13 Skills You'll Need for a Career?and How to Get Them at College
- Top 10 Myths About Study Abroad
- Transfer Tips-from Community College to 4-Year College
- Thinking About Grad School? The 10-Step Program
- 10 Tips for Finding a Job
The End and the Beginning
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Acknowledgments
Web Resources
Index
