For high school graduates and anyone heading off to college, this book is packed with 100 lessons to help shape your college experience and prepare for what comes afterward. It makes the perfect gift for the new college student.
Once you’ve been admitted to college, the next step is to develop a strategy of how to find your best life there. But for decades, Professor James T. Hamilton has seen students struggle with their college journey. Some avoid challenging experiences, follow a path of familiar expectations, and rely on shortcuts. Others aim for perfection, ignore their friends and health, labor over what subjects to study, and neglect spending time outside the classroom. The pressure to make college valuable and interesting can feel overwhelming.
If only students could learn how others have navigated these challenges. You could ask alums to look back on friendships and college-to-career paths and provide advice. Now, you don’t have to wish because You Got In! Now What? tackles the burning questions you have.
Hamilton designs lessons to help you find purpose, manage time, maintain friendships and family relationships, stay physically and mentally healthy, and choose classes, majors, and careers. Each lesson is accompanied by an essay based on research and reflections from students, alums, and professors to provide observations for how you can embrace the best that college has to offer.
With these insights, you'll explore new ideas, meet people, have adventures, and most importantly, beyond just earning a degree, receive an education.
Industry Reviews
“This is exactly the book I wish I had when I started college! In short, snappy, well-referenced chapters, it provides poignant advice and memorable stories about how to get the most out of your college experience.” -- Tina Seelig, Executive Director, Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University, and author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
“Incoming freshmen put an inordinate amount of effort getting into college, but surprisingly little making the most of their time there. This is the book I wish I had before I started college. It's a buffet of earned wisdom that you can use as a compass to navigate these critical years of your life.” -- Simone Stolzoff, author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
“This book is a ‘must’ for those heading to college. It will help them make decisions that expand new ideas, friendships and lifelong success.” -- Myra Strober, Professor of Education, Emerita, Stanford University, and coauthor of Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life’s Biggest Decisions
