This rich account of college life is recommended for all. Filled with advice and illuminated by real stories of students' self-doubts, failures, discoveries, and hopes, book is a blueprint for academic success.Students' actual responses are woven throughout, creating a revealing text unlike anything else parents, children, matriculating freshmen, and educators have read. * Publishers Weekly * Valuable and practical.An outstanding publication dealing with education and society. A major portion of the book argues that the benefits of diversity on college campuses have been underestimated and that awkward culture clashes can ultimately provide a positive, if at the time uncomfortable, learning experience. There are some surprises, too: students Light spoke with demand high writing standards and favor unpredictability in their professors' political opinions. Rosenberg * Harvard Magazine * Some useful themes emerge from decade spent interviewing more than 1,600 undergraduates: in-class and out-of-class experiences are significantly connected strategies successful in high school don't always work well at college good advising is crucial students must ask for help when they need it 'students are enthusiastic when classes are structured to maximize personal engagement' and they enjoy interdisciplinary courses. Because the stories convey in students' words how they study, learn, and react to their peers within a residential college, it is memorably unlike anything else parents, students, soon-to-be undergraduates, and educators have read. Vanessa Bush * Booklist * The book recounts.in 100-some excerpts from interviews with Harvard College students.revealing vignettes about how undergraduates make the most of their precious hours inside the classroom and beyond. offers specific suggestions from students on how to deal with typical situations.Parents and students either in college or headed there will find this book a valuable resource. Martin Trow, University of California, Berkeley Light, a Harvard professor with 30 years of experience teaching at the college level, explores those elements of college life that make it an enriching experience for students. I will buy the book and use it, and be grateful to Richard Light for his sensitivity and creativity as a teacher and teacher of teachers. It shows close attention to the ways students learn what they tell the interviewers, the author's own experience and that of other teachers together provide a rich account of the college experience.
Making the Most of College is an excellent book which will be of practical help to students and teachers alike.
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