College is the time when kids generally get their first taste of freedom: They may be buying their own food, paying for their own needs, and getting acquainted with other college students. But do they really know what to expect in their new life?
Figuring out how to get used to college life is essential for students who don’t want to wind up being alone or maybe getting very homesick. Getting a new college students on solid footing means that they’ll get four years of somewhat real life before they launch into the “real world” of adulthood.
We asked experts in social interaction and college life — including some who specialize in the Psychology — for their top recommendations of books that will appeal to college students and offer solid principles and strategies for becoming successful in their college life and academics. Here are a few of the best college life books to give to your college students.
The Best College Student Survival Guide Ever Written: The one book all students should own before starting or finishing their college experience by MJ Wilson
In this guide MJ Wilson explains to students and parents how to:
1) choose the right major and college/university
2) deal with bad professors and impossible exams
3) keep from changing your major (again and again!)
4) learn study skills/time management techniques
5) reduce test stress and improve your G.P.A.
6) handle being homesick, depressed and lonely
7) improve your resume and make a grand exit!
8) graduate in the least amount of time possible
MJ Wilson holds a Master's degree in Education. He is a campus speaker on "the do's and don'ts of college" - especially for freshmen. Wilson, who is an Ohio native, now resides in Tampa, Florida. For more information about his books or speaking, visit mj-wilson.com
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:
• 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 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.
Whether it's their first year or fourth, college students (who think they already know everything) can always use powerful and proven tips on how to make the most of their experience. In 1001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know, Harry H. Harrison Jr.'s latest dose of trademark wit and wisdom provides practical advice ranging from class enrollment, living on campus, study habits and more, that every student-and parent-will benefit from...like buying their books before exams start!
The organization and presentation of the material is designed for a short attention span and that's a good thing. Some really obvious points listed in the book, but honestly, college freshman sometimes need to hear the obvious.
Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter.
MJ Wilson holds a Master's degree in Education. He is a campus speaker on "the do's and don'ts of college" - especially for freshmen. Wilson, who is an Ohio native, now resides in Tampa, Florida. For more information about his books or speaking, visit mj-wilson.com
How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students by Cal Newport
• 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 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.
“This deliberately provocative book is a good way for a smart student to see how out-of-the-box thinking can lead to success in college.”—Seattle Times
The organization and presentation of the material is designed for a short attention span and that's a good thing. Some really obvious points listed in the book, but honestly, college freshman sometimes need to hear the obvious.
A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.
You will learn how to:
• Streamline and maximize your study time
• Conquer procrastination
• Absorb the material quickly and effectively
• Know which reading assignments are critical—and which are not
• Target the paper topics that wow, professors
• Provide A+ answers on exams
• Write stellar prose without the agony
A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students—with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class
This book is for incoming and first year college students who are ready to make the most of their college experience, beyond what you might hear at at orientation.This book is a combination of the super secret insider tips to college that either us authors learned themselves, or they kept hearing from their campus leadership programs.
You will learn how to:
• Streamline and maximize your study time
• Conquer procrastination
• Absorb the material quickly and effectively
• Know which reading assignments are critical—and which are not
• Target the paper topics that wow, professors
• Provide A+ answers on exams
• Write stellar prose without the agony
A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students—with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class
First Year Student to First Year Success: 21 Things You NEED to Know When Starting College
by Tom Krieglstein
This book is for incoming and first year college students who are ready to make the most of their college experience, beyond what you might hear at at orientation.This book is a combination of the super secret insider tips to college that either us authors learned themselves, or they kept hearing from their campus leadership programs.
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