Books in Brief
You Got In! Now What?: 100 Insights into Finding Your Best Life in College
Author: James T. Hamilton
Via Simon & Schuster
"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 is the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Hearst Professor of Communication and director of the Stanford Journalism Program in the Department of Communication.
