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How to be a student helps tackle the challenges and opportunities associated with life at university and college. 100 actionable ideas, strategies and tactics help you to make the most of your time, including: - Turning up to your lectures and what to do while you're there.
152 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2005
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October 11, 2017
I'm rating this four and a half stars. In short articles, a page or so long, the ideas the authors want to pass on about student life and how to survive it are presented.
We are told about budgeting, being away from home, feeling different, keeping healthy and setting a sensible study routine. The authors emphasise that while you need to get through the course, you should also be open to all college life has to offer. For part-time students who are working, they sensibly advise choosing a job that doesn't wear you out physically.
I found a little needless repetition which a harsher editor would have pointed out; several items link back to other items which cover much the same ground. As many students today use mobile phones for their calendar scheduling, I think an update would help, because the authors extol two wall calendars for various aspects of the college year, but a phone is simpler and you have it with you. Also they suggest keeping careful track of reference sources on paper; today special software like Zotera does it very well, and most of your reading will be on line.
Some of the articles are focused on the aspirational, how college will make you a wiser person open to questioning the world. Well, it will, but a book of this nature might be expected to include advice like making lists so you don't have to keep remembering items (in your phone if needed); doing assignments swiftly so they don't mount up; and given many students are taking office type subjects, bulleted points instead of all essay style. Notes on core reading should, I feel, include tracking your reading on Goodreads and reviewing each book there as you read it. Most books will be from the college library so you can't underline.
I would also advise students to assess banks carefully when it comes to taking a student loan. Some people take a student loan from the bank that offers a gift or is nearest the college gate. That bank knows it will have you trapped, paying interest and running a current account for many years, maybe your whole life. The bank may be about to close all its branches and go online only, or it doesn't have a good network of ATMs, or it charges more interest than most. Maybe it doesn't lend for mortgages, but you are hoping to use repaying a loan as evidence that you can repay a mortgage. Not mentioned in the book.
Have fun, colour coding notes and pulling all-nighters only if you have to... I'm sure you'll find this book useful. I read the paperback from Open University Press and I was a bit annoyed to find some American spellings.
I borrowed this book from Dublin Business School Library. This is an unbiased review.
We are told about budgeting, being away from home, feeling different, keeping healthy and setting a sensible study routine. The authors emphasise that while you need to get through the course, you should also be open to all college life has to offer. For part-time students who are working, they sensibly advise choosing a job that doesn't wear you out physically.
I found a little needless repetition which a harsher editor would have pointed out; several items link back to other items which cover much the same ground. As many students today use mobile phones for their calendar scheduling, I think an update would help, because the authors extol two wall calendars for various aspects of the college year, but a phone is simpler and you have it with you. Also they suggest keeping careful track of reference sources on paper; today special software like Zotera does it very well, and most of your reading will be on line.
Some of the articles are focused on the aspirational, how college will make you a wiser person open to questioning the world. Well, it will, but a book of this nature might be expected to include advice like making lists so you don't have to keep remembering items (in your phone if needed); doing assignments swiftly so they don't mount up; and given many students are taking office type subjects, bulleted points instead of all essay style. Notes on core reading should, I feel, include tracking your reading on Goodreads and reviewing each book there as you read it. Most books will be from the college library so you can't underline.
I would also advise students to assess banks carefully when it comes to taking a student loan. Some people take a student loan from the bank that offers a gift or is nearest the college gate. That bank knows it will have you trapped, paying interest and running a current account for many years, maybe your whole life. The bank may be about to close all its branches and go online only, or it doesn't have a good network of ATMs, or it charges more interest than most. Maybe it doesn't lend for mortgages, but you are hoping to use repaying a loan as evidence that you can repay a mortgage. Not mentioned in the book.
Have fun, colour coding notes and pulling all-nighters only if you have to... I'm sure you'll find this book useful. I read the paperback from Open University Press and I was a bit annoyed to find some American spellings.
I borrowed this book from Dublin Business School Library. This is an unbiased review.
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