May 30 2008
“KickAss in College” by Gunnar Fox
KickAss in College: A Guerrilla Guide to College Success by Gunnar Fox is a laugh-out-loud guide to doing well in college. I picked it up on a whim at the library because the name caught my eye - there aren’t many self-help books that have swear words in the title. 
I’m glad I did though - it was an absolutely fantastic book, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. My only real quibble with it was (would you guess it!) there were quite a few swear words on it. 
I know, I know, crazy but true. 
I have a hard time recommending it wholeheartedly because of those swear words, but I also figure that anyone who picks up a book with “Ass” in the title probably knows what’s coming.
The tips in the book are fantastic - he’s direct, he’s easy to read, he’s realistic, and he’s fun. I read the book through quickly the first time, and then decided to go back through a second time to take notes. There was enough in there that I knew I wouldn’t remember everything by fall (when I start back to school myself), and I didn’t want to risk that. If I had read this book before starting college as a freshman in 1999, I would have done so much better than I did. I highly recommend it to anyone who attending either college or high school, and wants to learn how to succeed in the classroom. He doesn’t have a crazy system for studying where you have to highlight every sentence with a different color, or one of the other bizarre systems that are out there. His system does require you to work hard, yes, but at least you’ll do it knowing that you’re going to actually get the good grades in the end.
If you’re in the market for a great study guide, make sure to pick this one up!
4.75 out of 5 stars (marked down just slightly for the cuss word content).
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