Includes index.

Now that you're here -- Active learning: what's in it for you -- How you learn -- Professors, tasks, and you -- Getting organized: managing yourself and your time -- Academic energy: motivation for learning, attitudes, and interests -- Just what do you believe, anyway? -- Dealing with stress -- Strategic reading -- Take note! Lectures: a different kind of text -- Rehearsal and review strategies -- Strategies for social science -- Strategies for the humanities -- Strategies for science and mathematics -- Using technology for learn -- Preparing for objective exams -- Preparing for and taking essay and specialty exams -- Appendix A: "Cognition and intelligence," from Essentials of Psychology, third edition. -- Appendix B: "The Nation Divides: The Vietnam war and Social Conflict, 1964-1971," from Created Equal: A social and political history of the United States.