Making It In College: Find Yourself, Find your Work, Now Get to work!

The rudest awakening for students making the transition to college concerns their academic workload, which is more than an inconvenience as academics are their greatest concern. Students’ sudden autonomy in the college environment and not being sure of where they are going compound the issue. Few college life books today deal with the academic side, and the result for about half of all students is stress, lower than expected grades, anxiety, and disillusionment—sad consequences for once hopefuls. This does not have to be so. Making It in College—Find Yourself, Find Your Work, Now Get to Work!  (57.8k words) goes a long way to handling this problem.

About the book:

• Builds intrinsic motivation to help students find themselves and their path
• Teaches strong executive skills to facilitate independent and self-directed learning
• Trains advanced study skills to improve learning and academic performance
• Shows them how to dig in to get more out of school and individual courses
• Focuses on their becoming educated persons to attain high-level goals

The book starts by asking the learner to find their own personal and private goals — this makes learning easier.  The book’s study method uses any exposure to the course subject material as a way to deepen and expand learning.  The method fosters personal development and helps in becoming an educated person.