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    How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
    How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
    How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
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    How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students

    Written by Cal Newport

    Narrated by Roger Wayne

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    About this audiobook

    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 seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of your class. These often surprising strategies include:

    #9679 Don't do all your reading

    #9679 Drop classes every term

    #9679 Become a club president

    #9679 Care about your grades, Ignore your GPA

    #9679 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 11, 2020
    ISBN9781705201268
    How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic quick and easy book from a great author. I wish I'd read this years ago before I started college!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Well, this was a great listen. The short snippets of advice were a good format for such a book. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to improve some of their habits for studying and even research.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It has The key insights to a winning college student life.