Getting the Best Out of College, Revised and Updated
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781607741442
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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Getting the Best Out of College, Revised and Updated

Insider Advice for Success from a Professor, a Dean, and a Recent Grad

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An insider's guide that shows ambitious students how to optimize their college career, completely revised and updated for today's academic landscape.

An insider’s guide that shows ambitious students how to optimize their college career, completely revised and updated for today’s academic landscape.

I WISH I’D KNOWN THAT IN COLLEGE
Your time as an undergrad has the potential to be incredibly fun, rewarding, and life changing in ways you may not yet even imagine–that is, if you play your cards right and take full advantage of what your university has to offer. Sadly, very few students ever learn the secret handshake of how to make the most of their college years.  Until now.

For undergrads (and parents) hoping their tuition will pay off, GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGE is a must-read.  Distilling more than fifty years of experience from some of the leading minds at top tier institutions, GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGE reveals insider advice that makes the hefty price tag worth it: how to impress professors, live with a roommate, pick the best courses (and do well in them), design a meaningful transcript, earn remarkable internships, prepare for a successful career after graduation, and much more.
 
This new edition also includes feedback from students who put GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGE to the test, as well as new chapters on what to do when college “just isn’t working” and unique opportunities with international students and study abroad.  With a new forward by Duke University’s Coach K, GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGE gives invaluable advice that enables students (and their parents!) to make the most of their college years.
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781607741442
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

PETER FEAVER

Peter D. Feaver (PhD, Harvard, 1990) is the Alexander F. Heh-meyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. He has over twenty years of teaching experience—as a teaching fellow at Harvard and as a professor at Duke. He won the Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (1985–86 and 1986–87), the Trinity College (Duke) Distinguished Teaching Award (1994–95), and the Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (2001). He has published numerous scholarly books and articles on national security issues, and he has served on the National Security Council at the White House, first as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control under President Bill Clinton and most recently as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform under President George W. Bush. As long as his knees will let him, he can be found waddling up and down the basketball court—or more often these days, cheering his daughter and two sons from the sidelines.

Praise for Getting the Best Out of College, Revised and Updated

Praise for the first edition:

  • "Refreshing, smart, and useful...should be basic required reading for incoming freshmen everywhere." --Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • "Witty, wise, and down-to-earth...A wonderful resource for students and their parents." --Elizabeth Kiss, President of Agnes Scott College

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