Maximize Your College Experience: Party Boy Slacker Turned Ivy League Honors Grad Reveals His Secrets to Crushing It in College (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781482541298)

Maximize Your College Experience, a proven blueprint for brand new college students, non-traditional students and even elite students fighting forthe top 5 per cent of their graduating class.

The author pulls back the curtain on how he overcame academic failure, substance abuse, and a learning disability to ultimately graduate from Cornell University with honors.

You don't have to be the smartest or hardest-working student to get a killer GPA. You just need to read this book. Maximizing Your College Experience provides a clear, easy to replicate system for managing yourself and organizing your time. It's a proven blueprint for success that anyone can use to reach the top.

Among the tips revealed are:

• Get organized and stay organized. Page 172
• 10 techniques to develop and consistently maintain a positive, winning attitude. Page 48
• Pump up your GPA with these tricks and strategies. Page 195.
• How to get off your butt and out of your comfort zone to get what you want.Page 149
• 6 Questions to ask yourself to develop your personal brand, command respect, and get people to like you. Page 182.
• Overcome and bounce back from negative events. Page 50.
• The most powerful goal setting tips ever. Page 145.
• Find out how wasted time sucks the life right out of you and what you can do to stop it.Page 169.
• Build valuable relationships with fellow students and professors without being an ass-kisser. Page 187.
• Attitude creep...what it is and how to crush it. Page 60.
• 4 steps to conquer debilitating fear. Page 62.
• 10 surefire techniques to an Action Attitude. Page 79.
• How to lie to yourself to get into the right frame of mind. Page 79.
• Why your Emotional Maturity Quotient (EMQ) is more important than your IQ. Page 114.
• Avoid the soul crushing pain of regret. Page 118.
• Turn in quality work weeks ahead of time by developing just this one habit. Page 131.
• Discover the visualization techniques Olympic athletes use to win gold. Page 140.
• How to crawl out of and fill in the dark hole of soul crushing depression and despair. Page 48.
• Find out why time management is nonsense! Page 166.
• Procrastinate to get ahead. (You heard that right, putting it off can work for you!) Page 168.
• Grab total control of your day. Page 176.
• You do have the time to stay healthy. Page 202.
• Make sleep work for you. Page 203.
• How to tell if alcohol is ruining your college career. Page 206.
• Find out why "If you really loved me you would..." is a bullcrap line that creates havoc with your goals. Page 208.
• Best ever definition of fear and how to make it hightail and run! Page 63

The book begins with a hard-hitting, very personal Foreword by the author on why students must read this book if they want to succeed in college.

It's a bold message for brand new college students, returning veterans going back to school, single parents, athletes, those struggling with learning disabilities or substance abuse, and even elite students fighting for the top 5 per cent of their graduating class.

First, Tim explains his vision. Then he suggests how to use the book for maximum effectiveness.

Tim sets the stage at the beginning of each chapter with a famous quote summarizing its purpose. At the end of the chapter is a short Action Exercise to enable the student to internalize the strategy. This is reinforced with a list of the chapter's main points.