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Simple rules for success from star students

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.

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Cal Newport

Calvin C. Newport is an American nonfiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.

Cal Newport was born June 23, 1982. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 2004 and received a Ph.D. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 under Nancy Lynch. He was a post-doctoral associate in the MIT computer science department from 2009-2011.

Newport joined Georgetown University as an assistant professor of computer science in 2011 and was granted tenure in 2017. His work focuses on distributed algorithms in challenging networking scenarios and incorporates the study of communications systems in nature. Newport is currently Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University and the author of eight books.

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