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Summary: Fabulous Book
Review: This was an absolutely wonderful book. I only wish that I had read a book like this when I was going to college. It is practical, well thought out and a true resource. I highly , highly recommend that parents, kids on their way to college read this and discuss it.
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Summary: For all first year students at Drake - - required reading.
Review: Working with a group of Deans, we chose this book as a common reading for all of our new, first year students for academic year 2002 -2003. Our goal is to have groups of 20 first year students, led by regular faculty members, all reading and discussing "Making the Most of College." Our curriculum committee reviewed about eight competitors and decided this was the most useful book for new college students. Professor Light will speak to all of our new first years when he visits here in the fall. So far student response has been very enthusiastic. Our honors students seem especially captivated by the various suggestions. The particular suggestion in this book that many students seem to "resonate" to is the author's suggestion that students find classes where they are able to "make some connections" between what may sometimes be relatively abstract academic work in classes, and something in their own backgrounds or personal lives. This suggestion has seemed to encourage faculty to plan their classes to cover all of the usual substantive topics, yet to try to "build in" some time for students to relate the readings to their own experiences as well. This may be not at all easy in certain classes in math or the sciences, yet certainly we believe any faculty member in the social sciences or humanities will help students by making this effort. So far the adoption of this book has been a success on campus, and I am very pleased that many students have actually "re-named" it, and now refer to it as "Making the Most of Drake." The author should take that as a great compliment.
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