Customer Reviews:
 A Good Idea, Badly Executed April 30, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was required reading for a "college success" type course I was taking. If you are a fresh out of high school teenager who has been a little sheltered, this book is probably an excellent resource. It covers many topics such students might find useful, such as homesickness, time management and planning, thinking and studying changes you have to make to go from high school learning to college, and of course maintaining your physical, mental, and spiritual health and relationships. It includes study techniques for different topic areas and different kinds of exams. And, of course, it includes a Christian perspective throughout, as well as having a chapter devoted to maintaining Christian values while dealing with college temptations.
Unfortunately, it was useless to me, a 30 year old woman who went back to school for a bachelor's degree after already holding an Associates Degree. Plus, my degree program is entirely online, though an accredited university, so many of the study techniques were inapplicable to the courses I take. It would be better if this book were retooled to better address adult students and online students, both growing populations on college campuses. Or if the authors made a separate book for them (and hopefully my school doesn't require future adult, online students to suffer through reading a book that offers no useful information at all for them).
 Required reading, unfortunately December 27, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was required reading by my college. It should be required reading at the high school level. I'm 50 years old, returning to college via online classes. Since a college success book is required reading, and since the number of adult learners is growing, someone should write a book geared to the adult, online (and correspondence) college student. I knew returning to college would be hard work, but I wasn't prepared for, and the book didn't address, the online "final group project."
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