What the Best College Students Do

Name: What the Best College Students Do
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780674066649

ISBN-10: 0674066642

ISBN-13: 9780674066649

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ken Bain

List price: $33.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $19.09 Due date: 8/13/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy used: $7.14

Buy new: $31.02

Marketplace

3 new & used from $2.95

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The author of the best-selling book What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college—and every other educational enterprise, too.The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book—college graduates who went on to change the world we live in—aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives.Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys,…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




The Roots of Success



What Makes an Expert?



Managing Yourself



Learning How to Embrace Failure



Messy Problems



Encouragement



Curiosity and Endless Education



Making the Hard Choices


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index