ADHD: The College Experience: How to stop blaming yourself, work with your strengths, succeed in college, and reach your potential

by Arash Zaghi, Connie Mosher Syharat

ADHD: The College Experience offers an honest and humorous look at both the daily struggles and the unique potential of college students with ADHD. From last-minute paper-writing, to the seemingly endless labyrinth of a wandering mind, you’re sure to see yourself in these stories that capture the essence of college life for students with ADHD. There is no magical solution to the difficulties that students with ADHD will face in higher education, and no single set of recommendations will work for everyone. That’s why you won’t find long lists of tips, tricks, and strategies in this guide for students. Instead, Zaghi presents an insightful and entertaining mix of observations and reflections based on his personal experiences as a university professor who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

172 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2018

Reviews

[Rebecca Grace · Rating 1 out of 5]

Actually, this might be a great book for someone who is first diagnosed with ADHD as a college student or young adult. It's an overview of the different ways that having ADHD traits can impact your college learning experience in negative as well as positive ways, and for that reason it might help someone who is coming to terms with a new diagnosis. There's a lot of feel-good hypothesizing about why ADHD genetics persist in the human gene pool, why these traits would have contributed to the success of ancient human societies, and how these traits can be linked to success over time, if a student makes it through school and lands in an intrinsically motivating field. However, I was looking for something with more concrete strategies for coping with ADHD challenges in the college environment, and this book doesn't give those suggestions. There were some vague admonitions about how "everyone's brain works differently," and random suggestions for art students to paint visual representations of their British Lit class poetry, but next to nothing that a student could put into practice. Glad I skimmed through the book before giving it to my son to read, because he would have been frustrated that the "book to help him with ADHD in college" didn't have any ideas to help him at all.

[Nikki Strange · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very relatable with my daughter in college. I’m encouraging her to read it. Hopeful that she will see that ADHD is something she’s going to have to work with and that she might have to put in more work than others that don’t have it. That it is not because she isn’t smart, but because her brain doesn’t process like the general population.

[Aaron · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's okay

The writer is excessively tangential, bulking the document with unnecessary longwinded story narrative. Some recommendations contained may be helpful, but this isn't the first book I'd recommend on navigating college life with this disorder.